“In Bangladesh, 3.5 million workers in 4,825 garment factories produce goods for export to the global market, principally Europe and North America.”

Offshore labour refers to manufacturing in another country, typically one with lower wages or less strict labor regulations, of products for domestic sale or use. Many businesses use offshore production to take advantage of wage gaps between developing and developed nations, keeping prices low and profits high by lowering labor costs. Sweat shop is a another way of saying offshore labour which they provide unsafe condition and low wages to their workers, but get high profits. Many people say that they would not buy products from sweat shop because the people who are working on this sweat shop are treated terribly and not covered cost of living (unethical policy). If we keep buy products from sweat shop, the companies will hire more people in sweat shop in order to develop and improve their business.

In those poor countries, sweat shop is great and first economic development to step forward because it develops capital investment into the country. In the past, US and England had gone though this first and then Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan have been through sweat shop process too. It is the first step to develop its own country. It is part of process of economic growth. Unfortunately, lots of owners of these factories will go bankrupt if they raise the wages because they hire too many workers.

http://www.waronwant.org/overseas-work/sweatshops-and-plantations/sweatshops-in-bangladesh