In the article Santa’s Sweatshop: It’s Hard To Know Who
Made Your Gift—and Under What Conditions by William Holstein et. al
discusses the making of products in high volume factories in rural areas in
Third World Countries. The many issues surrounding the conditions of these
factories is that they recruit many are, “young female workers migrating
thousands of miles from their home are alleged to earn less tab the minimum
wage of $1.99 a day”. (Holstein et. al, 1). This scratches the surface of what
many workers have to endure, they not only get paid less, but they have to work
extremely long hours, and some in rundown dorms on site.
When I firs learned about
this, I thought of the things in my house that have the MIC label—Made In
China. And that was about 90 percent of my things in my apartment. Shocking
right? Not only was it clothes; it was cooking ware, my toaster, etc. In
another article, “China’s Toy Sweatshop Pays 36 Cents An Hour” on wnd.com talks
about US investing so much in offshore production in sweatshops, “China is the second largest source of imports for the U.S. while the
U.S. is China’s largest overseas market and second largest source of foreign
direct investment” therefore it makes products very cheap.
Source: binoarealuyo.com
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has been a week, and I must say that it is very tough. I’m a frequent online
shopper, so blitz sales and coupons emailed to me makes me want to just press
BUY NOW.
- Krizia
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