Sweatshop

Sweatshops perpetuate a cycle of poverty which is hard to break out of. When those who start working in such environment, one can assume they will remain in such positions for their natural lifetime. By virtue of Western manufacturers and companies utilizing the output of these facilities, they encourage their continued existence and creation of new ones. They use sweatshops as their backbone to maintaining market share and competition. There is a big problem here, as Sergey explained these significant profits are at the expense of exploiting people, human being just like me and u.

The cycle, under these circumstances, will never be broken and poverty will continue to be bred in foreign countries, until there is a deliberate effort on the part of all parties to change the current situation and create a new template for working conditions in these countries. The resurgence of sweatshops can be directly linked w/ corporate globalization. America is getting more power at the expense of ordinary workers trying to put food in their mouths. As competition increases, workers see their already low $ go down & their rights even more threatened. We are not fighting to shut down sweatshops but reform their conditions. It is wrong morally and economically to justify sweatshops because people are poor!

There is nothing good or helpful about sweatshops. They exploit men, women and even children less than the age of 10. The International Labor Organization estimates 250 million children between the ages of 5 - 14 work developing countries. They are denied education and a normal childhood. Some are confined and beaten. We need to open our eyes, open them wide. Children are being exploited and physically abused.

We are in the year 2006 and such conditions should not exist, especially being contributed from America and where we are today. There is no reason in the world to allow such to happen when we are