The Dark Side Of The Sweatshops

As the word “Sweater” was defined in 1850, and it was used to describe the situation where employer monotonous a hard work for a very low paycheck. It also became a common definition in the 1880s. The exploitation in those sweatshops increased the time by time and went out of control in some points. It led to different and multiple exploitations throughout the past years and showed very sensitive situations that employees suffered from. In some condition, sweatshops had crossed the humanity of treating their employees. For example, in women labour, child labour and the working conditions of their workplaces.

Above all, women labour had witnessed different types of abuse that crossed the red lines of treating human beings. This category of employees had suffered from exhausting hours working in full-time shifts. In addition to that, they faced sexual harassments from their employers especially in the night after losing their energy in working. Moreover, they experienced force abortions and inequality over their pregnancy during their contracts with sweatshops employers. “If a female worker does get hired and then becomes pregnant afterwards, she endures further discriminatory practices, the most prominent of those being: required number of hours worked per week, and a lack of adequate benefits. ” Many promotions practices and forced physical work activities were assigned to them. Besides, inequality paychecks based on gender purposes which were counted according to the percentage of women’s work abilities and availabilities.

Afterwards, child labour applied to those who were under the age of 15. The resulting research varied along the way of finding information about it. It had a different comparison in developed countries and undeveloped countries. Before the first half of the 20th century, children under the age of 15 used be forced to work in the commercial of agriculture in the US, New Zealand and European countries. After the labour laws were defined in those countries in this part of the world this age of work enforcement moved to 18 years old. “Child labour, employment of children of less than a legally specified age. In Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, children under age 15 rarely work except in commercial agriculture, because of the effective enforcement of laws passed in the first half of the 20th century. However, in many studies that occurred in the third world, it showed that children under the age of 15 work in sweatshops for full-time work hours. This category work in hazardous jobs under poor safety conditions until now.

To end up with this point, the working conditions of those workplaces cannot be ignored because the above categories (women and children) are the most who suffered from the unhealthy, unsafe and unfair of exploitations. That must be considered as a point to be discussed over the act of treating someone that in need unfairly based on their circumstances of living in a low-level condition. They work in long shifts which do not match the physical abilities. Furthermore, they’re treated based on their transnationality in some cases following this act by lowering their wages. “Child labour also continues to impact immigrant and migrant children. For example, the children of agricultural migrants frequently work alongside their parents, putting in long hours that prevent them from attending school. Many children work in substandard or dangerous conditions and are paid far below the set minimum wage. ” Additionally, most of those categories work in such a poor condition like sweatshops to support their families in surviving to face the life expenses. Further, they face to work with hazards in overcrowded workrooms that affect their health and safety during the long work hours which they need to spend to get what does not cover their basic needs as human beings and members of the society.

Consequently, we summarize the idea of this essay over the argument to be against sweatshops which they appear in women labor abuse in different ways, child labor that blind the future of those important members of our society and finally the poor condition practices inside these places over the low wage’s workers.