Sweatshops are NOT COOL

"Sweatshops: a manufacturing facility characterized by poor working conditions, violations of labor law, long hours, and low wages. The term originated in 1892, when concerned individuals began to speak up about heinous working conditions for American garment workers."

S.E. Smith. "What Is A Sweatshop?" rivised 2008. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-sweatshop.htm. accessed October 31, 2008


The global economy has always thrived on the hard work of the men and women in the work forces of various countries around the world, and though here in the United States men and women are well compensated for their hard work and effort this is not the case for people in other countries around the world. This is due to the inhumane and unethical production plants we call sweatshops.

I believe that it is wrong to work an individual to the extreme at minimal pay just to turn a profit and to put dollar bills into the pockets of rich cooperations and the CEO's that run them. It is sad to think that we in the United States consider ourselves the world police and yet we're are doing nothing to stop these cooperations from exploiting women and young children to do there work for often times less the pennies an hour. It is my hope that someday we will put a stop to this by making a stand as the consumers and boycotting the cooperations that exploit other human beings.