- Sweatshop labor is an abusive practice. It is employed by opportunistic multinational corporations who wish to exploit poorer nations in effort to increase financial gain through unlawfully cheap labor.
- Women perform the vast majority of sweatshop labor. According to a prominent study on the subject, approximately 90% of offshore factory workers are young women in their teens and early twenties.
- These women work day and night for unjustly low wages in dangerous conditions to produce clothing, electronics, toys, and shoes for American, European, and Japanese consumers.
- Many sweatshop workers suffer from chronic and debilitating health issues, including illnesses induced by extreme levels of stress provoked by harsh production quotas, prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals and glues, and daily inhalation of the lint and dust lingering in textile mills.
- In the U.S., the Department of Labor estimates that more than one half of the country’s 22,000 sewing factories can be charged with violating minimum wage, overtime laws, and laws requiring proper sanitation, access to exits, and ventilation.
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