encouraging people not to buy products made in sweatshops.

               A sweatshop is a manufacturing facility characterized by poor working conditions, violations of labor law, long hours, and low wages.  In the US, sweatshops are illegal because they have a minimum wage both federally and State wide most sweatshops are in Asian countries and mostly women are the victims. On the upside, at least they are earning money which a lot of their countrymen are not. A sweatshop's working environment is considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous- especially by developed countries with high standards of living.         
              I think that people around the world like fashion and they like to become a fashionable person. It’s true; even I really like to become a fashionable girl. Some of people like to wear lovely, trendy clothes and shoes in the cheap prices but it should be durable so everyone would love to wear it.            
              I have seen a sweatshop in Vietnam, there is only 3 toilets for about two thousand people. Each of them usually earns about $200 a year. On average, a migrant worker works about 12 hours a day, 26 days a month. Sweatshop workers earn 1/2-1/4 less of what they need to pay off transportation, food, shelter, clothing, education and energy. People around the world prefer low prices and products are made from in other countries. Many companies make clothes for their country and they also make clothes for another poor countries so people would love to buy it. Almost every single company is forced the factory to make clothes quickly. So it makes the workers don’t want to do it anymore but then, workers cannot refuse because if they do refuse, they will got bully from the head of that company or even they will get the low wages. Lots of companies want to sell it quickly as possible so they are forced the workers to make it immediately and factories don’t want to give them enough time to rest. They treat the workers every day and give them the low wages. Workers work from 6 am to 4 am or even more. If the workers try protesting or go on strike, the owner will find new workers and fire the old ones. The time depends on how well do they do.
              I have been researching this topic a lot but I didn’t even realize how bad sweatshops were until now. All I knew that they had poor working conditions, but I didn't know that they could go as far as housing workers and isolating them from the outside world. I would like to try to avoid buying products made in sweatshops, as a way to improve working conditions for people in those areas and we all should avoid buying. But, I also wonder if not purchasing products that were made in sweatshops will result in all of those people losing their jobs and being even worse off. These big companies like Nike and Addidas take advantage of such poor people. I don't see how they can be so greedy.

[출처] Sweat Shop|작성자 Yeo Bin