Sweatshop

A sweatshop  : is a place where people work, that is very crowded, where the work is very hard and the place is not safe to work in. Many sweatshops are in poor countries but sweatshops are also found in rich countries, where they often have people who are new to the country working in them, or people who are not legal residents. The amount of money people are paid in sweatshops is lower than the amount paid to workers in a richer country, but is often higher than the worker would earn in their old jobs on farms, or working in manual labour.In Praise of Cheap Labor by Paul KrugmanThe Noble Feat of Nike by Johan Norberg  Children may also work in sweatshops. People in sweatshops often make clothes and shoes. Awareness wristbands for charities have also been made by sweatshops.

 Related terms 

 Assembly line
 Body Shops
 Child labour
 Contingent work
 Corporate abuse
 Economic development
 Emerging markets
 Exploitation
 Export processing zone
 Game sweatshop
 Globalization
 Maquiladora
 Precarity
 Race to the bottom
 SA8000 — Social Accountability Certification Scheme for Manufacturing Industry
 Slavery
 Sweating system
 Trafficking in human beings
 Union Organizer

 Organizations working on the problem of sweatshops 
 Clean Clothes Campaign 
 International Labor Rights Fund
 International Labour Organization 
 National Labor Committee  
 Co-op America 
 Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior
 United Students Against Sweatshops 
 Woo Harry
 Free the Children

 References 
 Notes 

 Other websites 
 Activism 
SweatFree Communities– Local Action Against Sweatshops 
United Students Against Sweatshops
National Labor Committee 
Story about Adidas sweatshops 

 Shopping 
Responsible Shopper Company Profiles
"Shop with a Conscience" Consumer Guide 

 More reading 
Discussion about the pros and cons of sweatshops (video) 
Fair Labor Standards Act 
National Bureau for Economic Research paper: The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries
Matt Zwolinski on the definition, history, and morality of sweatshops
Academic Paper: "Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation"
Two Cheers for Sweatshops - New York Times, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Campus Sweatshop Movement - American Prospect
"Foreign owned businesses in Vietnam aren't sweatshops"  
Triangle Fire: Photographs from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Immaculata High School Child Slave Labor News 
Article on worker takeover of sweatshop in El Salvador
Economist John Miller on sweatshops  in Dollars & Sense
Paradise Lost: sweatshop labor on the U.S. island of Saipan  - Ms. magazine
Rackets, muggings hit social networking sites: Online currency opens channels for money laundering - ComputerWorld
Fashion Victims  - War on Want

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