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Sweatshop LaborA Global Horror
By: Dèyadra Nicole Straughter
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What Will We Learn Today? What a sweatshop is What sweatshops are intended for The pros and cons of sweatshop labor Acts to stop them Ratio of men to women in sweatshops Conditions working in sweatshops Wages And much more!
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What Is A Sweatshop Sweatshop- a factory or workshop in the clothing
industry (usually made up of illegal immigrants) where manual workers are employed at low wages for long hours under poor working environments.
Mexican Maquiladora- the term for sweatshops in Mexico generally with harsher conditions than most
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The Sweatshop
They’ve existed since the 16th century and still exist in the present
Where intended to give jobs to immigrants to make cheap clothing, shoes and other apparel
Although they have been existent since the 16th century sweatshops weren’t exposed until 1889 by the British government
Exposure stated poor factories manufacturing clothing for low wages harsh hours and extremely poor working conditions
Now they are opposite of initial intentions
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Conditions Low wages (pay as low as $0.13 and hour)
Long hours (some work as much 15 hour days while others do not get to leave at all)
High health risks (fumes from machinery, overheated areas, unsanitary environments, etc.)
Filthy rat infested environments
Crowded (especially women’s living quarters)
Barbed wire fences monitored by armed guards to prevent escape
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Conditions Continued… Since women cannot have visitors or can
rarely leave they have no chance of getting help from the outside to escape the madness
Brutal management (beat and rape the women in Mexican Maquiladoras)
Children ages 5 and up work in these sweatshops
Woman are treated worse of all being beaten, raped, paid lower wages than the normal and brutal punishments
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Women in Maquiladoras Sweatshops are 90% female age
16-25
Women in the sweatshop world are treated worse than the grounds walked upon
The worse that has happened would be murder of those who try to escape the conditions
Rape, sexual harassment and being threatened are more common
They are given a Depo-Provera shot to prevent pregnancies and menstruation. This also reduces vacation time (which they don’t get anyway) and increases productivity.
In addition sweatshops also fail to pay employees if they even pay them at all!
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Workers Rights Most sweatshop laborers are
unaware of their human rights.
With no choice but to work, they get threatened or punished for insubordination (defiance of authority)
Many people including President Roosevelt have brought awareness of the topic and have created ways to show the workers that they have right such as the Fair Labor Standards Act
This act prohibited child labor, overtime requirements, and made minimum wage to be $0.25
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Wages
Sweatshops are the lowest paying jobs and the people that work within them can barely feed themselves or their children
Third world countries have the lowest wages like Bangladesh with an hourly wage of $0.13
Immigrants make up majority of sweatshops and in exchange for their life they work 15 hours days with wages such as this
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Wages Chart
Here is a chart of hourly wages earned in 2004
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Ratio
The ratio of men and women in the sweatshop industry is usually 2 less me for every three women
Even without an actual set ratio there are way more women than men in the sweatshop industry
In Japan women earned less than 48% of what men earned
That’s almost half of what they don’t make!
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Ratio Chart
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Pros and Cons
Pros of the sweatshop industry would be:
The economic gain in which they have giving jobs to millions of people
Serving the buy/consume chain
Cons are they bring global shame to women and rights of workers
Sweatshops are a health topic, civil rights right’s topic, women’s rights topic, child labor law violation and much more
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Stop The Madness!
Sweatshops can be bettered or even stopped!
It always starts with problem however this one ends with a solution!
Nike has already begun to help the cause by increasing wages and giving their employees food and benefits as well as shelter.
Petitions and protests are the root of problems solved
Its up to the world to make this issue either cease or improve altogether
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We don’t want this
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We Want This!
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Thank for your time questions? Comments?