Louise Kissa. “Marking Garments for a Fair Pay.”
New Europe 25 Oct. 2009
<http://www.neurope.eu/articles/-Making-garments-for-a-fair-pay/97045.php>
Sweatshop workers work for long hours under bad working condition for little pay. The author of the article, Louise Kissa, criticizes the employers including big enterprise like Wal-Mart for treating the labours badly. Labour force working in a sweatshop is definitely a social problem that is affecting our economy deeply.
Our economy growth depends on money circulation. When workers have a low paying job, they could not buy highly priced necessities. This means that Producers would have to lay off some workers to compensate lower income due to decreased demand. As a result, high unemployment rate would occur.
Furthermore, this article has also pointed out that some NGOs try to help the sweatshop labours by proposing a better working condition and a higher pay. Government could raise the minimum wage law and set up social programs providing language classes, and practical training for sweatshop workers to “upgrade” themselves. People should pay more attention to this problem. One day, if one walks into a store, please do not just look at the price tag, but also look at where the produce is made. One should decide if one wants to encourage inhumane employers to hire sweatshop workers by buying their products.
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< http://www.globalenvision.org/files/sweatshop.jpg>
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