Alivia A. Esterly
CRS 231-01
October 31, 2008
Sweatshops
CRS 231-01
October 31, 2008
Sweatshops
Sweatshops are a very controversial topic for many people. When I think of sweatshops I think of beyond poor working conditions. A small room with hundreds of workers packed in like sardines sewing their lives away in forced and unpaid over time. Rats crawling along the floor and people coming to work coughing and sneezing because they do not want to loose their jobs. Small children who are barely big enough to touch the peddle of the sewing machine being paid $0.02 an hour in order to help their family survive.
The stance that I have taken on sweat shops is most likely similar to what many people other than myself feel. I feel that sweatshops are awful, the employers hardly pay their workers enough to even survive themselves. Many of these workers are attempting to provide for their families and working for $0.02 an hour can in some cases hardly be enough to buy a cup of rice.
Yet on the other end of this argument the people who have these jobs need them to survive. Despite the low wages they are paid the money they receive still allows them to survive. I feel that while the working conditions are horrendous, sweatshops are needed for those people to survive. That is why in th long run I feel that I am pro-sweatshop. While I do want to fix the working conditions of sweatshops both in and out of the United States I feel that right now some people depend on these jobs, despite the current working conditions.
The stance that I have taken on sweat shops is most likely similar to what many people other than myself feel. I feel that sweatshops are awful, the employers hardly pay their workers enough to even survive themselves. Many of these workers are attempting to provide for their families and working for $0.02 an hour can in some cases hardly be enough to buy a cup of rice.
Yet on the other end of this argument the people who have these jobs need them to survive. Despite the low wages they are paid the money they receive still allows them to survive. I feel that while the working conditions are horrendous, sweatshops are needed for those people to survive. That is why in th long run I feel that I am pro-sweatshop. While I do want to fix the working conditions of sweatshops both in and out of the United States I feel that right now some people depend on these jobs, despite the current working conditions.
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