A sweatshop is a place that has poor unacceptable working conditions.  Sweatshops are found all around the world.  People working in these sweatshops are often paid very low wages and work in bad conditions.  Workers in sweatshops are treated more like slaves than employees because they force them to work long hours and even harass the workers.  Most of the the workers in these sweatshops consist of children and women and women are frequently sexually harassed.

Many big name corporations use sweatshops because it helps them make money without having to pay workers normal wages for making the companies clothes.  Why do companies always feel the need to make more money even if it makes other people suffer?  Some of my favorite companies use sweatshops to make their clothing and I don't agree with it whatsoever.  One thing we can do as costumers is stop buying the product, but that can only go so far.  We as people find the need to always get the best things including clothes because we want to fit in and wear what we think is cool. Only up until a couple years ago did I realize that sweatshops were a thing.

The video I was shown in class was a real life example of a sweatshop in Bangladesh where at the beginning a man stood outside reporting the terrible conditions that these workers have to deal with.  They work anywhere from 14-20 hours a day in a hot building with men surrounding and supervising them making sure they are doing the right thing.  If they don't complete the amount of pockets or buttons that they have to sew onto a piece of clothing in a certain amount of time they are abused.  I never could imagine a working environment like this.  A good quote i liked from the video was "do we ever stop to imagine the human face behind the label?"  (The Hidden Face of Globalization)  I never have stopped to think of this concept and I think others look past it as well, but when you do truly think about the face and the harsh conditions these people are put in it really brings up a point that no one deserves to live like this.  Workers in these factories have to work to be able to make just enough money to barely get by.  They work such long shifts to where they only get a couple hours of sleep a day sometimes only resting their heads on machines is the best sleep they can get.  People are always subject to making more money and will do whatever they have to in order to get as much as they can.  Making other people suffer is inhumane and it needs to stop because everyone deserves to be treated equal.

The biggest problem for me is that people aren't being treated equal and other people don't even care enough to help out.  Bigger companies won't stop these brutal sweatshops that bring women and children pain all because they want more money.  If they just switched the jobs of making clothes to the US paying minimum wage, then more job opportunities would appear and less people would be homeless.