Sunday, April 17, 2011

sweatshops?

When it comes to sweatshops it is quite obvious that the cons very much outweigh the pros. Lots of sweatshops, mainly based in China, give out scripts for their employees to learn if questioned in order to fool auditors into believing that people are content with the working conditions. Abuse is also very prevalent in most sweatshops both verbal and physical, such as, threats and sexual harassment.  Most employees receive low wage that fail to meet the basic standard of living, employees tend to work 60-80 hours/week and only get paid .20-.30 cents/hour. They are forced to work long hours with no overtime. However, employees are getting paid eight times the average wage working for American multinationals then any other job. Likewise, in developing countries they argue the fact that another country cannot judge their standards compared to someone elses because most countries cannot afford to be like the United States.

1 comment:

  1. yeah i was surprised to learn that sweatshops workers make that much more than the average wage in their country, theres certainly no shortage of people willing to labor in those environments cuz its better than the alternative

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