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I did a survey on sweatshops to see how many people or kids were even concerned about them.Some didn't even know what they were.All the people that did know about it were not to concerned because it doesn't involve them.I think everyone should be concerned about sweatshops cause there are allot of them in the UNITED STATES. Most of the younger people are not to worried about it.I think its because they just don't understand how serious it really is.But the older upper class people know what it is.So what my chart is telling me most people are not aware of the horrible things going on in the states.

child sweatshops

Did you know?Every day 200 million one in six kids between the ages of 17 go to work instead of school.171 million of them are put in dangerous working conditions.In as early as the 1830's most U.S states passed laws saying that children couldn't be put in industrial settings, Although most people didn't have much concern. Most kids worked 68 to 72 hour week. How many hours a week do you work? In 1904 the NCLC was organized(national child labor committee) was organized by concern people who knew about the mills and mines.Now our minimum age for work is 15.Today the most child labor is found in Asia and the second most child labor is found in Africa.Just think about child labor today look at your clothes your wearing or the carpet your standing on it just might be made by children in sweatshops.

sweatshops

What is a sweatshop? The department of labor sees sweatshops as a place were they use child labor work them overtime and don't even pay them minimum wage or even obey fire safety laws.The people that work in sweatshops report all kinds of horrible working conditions, Such as cramped working spaces,sexual harassment,verbal abuse,corporal punishment and illegal firing's.Over 50% percent of the U.S garment factories are sweatshops.There are probably sweatshops in every country in the world that there are desperate workers.The typical sweatshop worker is a women in most cases are not getting an education because she is working long hours to help support her family and hopefully she has a husband.IN AMERICA the sweatshop workers are 90% women and are recent or undocumented immigrants.Almost all the companies in the mall you shop at have connections to some sort of sweatshop.Our U.S government has laws against sweatshops but we can't do allot because the department of labor doesn't have enough people to inspect every workstation in the U.S. But if the government finds all the sweatshops and there are no more workers we'll have no more supplies to make all of our goods and then stuff will get very expensive.An alternative to sweatshops is for the company that they're working to donate at least 1-2% of they're funds.For example if Nike donated 1% of they're funds the workers could feed and clothe themselves and they're families.I GOT THIS INFO FROMfeminist.org