2007-09-05 17:16:18 · 13 answers · asked by K00LiSH [#1 Kings fan!] 5 in Politics & Government ➔ International Organizations
Yes, a lot. More and more, smart consumers are thinking about the people who make the products we buy and the conditions they work in. From the clothing we wear to the toys our children play with, store shelves are stocked with goods made in sweatshops where workers labor in unsafe conditions and are paid wages so low they must struggle to feed and shelter their families. The aisles we shop are lined with products made in factories that exploit child labor and fire and harass workers when they try to improve their lives by forming unions.
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2007-09-09 15:26:06 · answer #1 · answered by L U K E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! China has perhaps 1,500,000 convicts that work in a situation can be called serfdom--at best. Africa is rife with slave
labor and forced labor. Central America has a great number of forced labors--very similar to slaves actually. In fact more people are probably exploited in the third world--right now, as in today--than where exploited in the entire first world industrial revolution.
2007-09-08 23:16:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there still are sweatshops. when you demand products that are cheap, then somebody has to make them cheap. Sweatshops pay below their respective countries' minimum wage at less than ideal conditions. the sweatshops also exist in South and Central America, Eastern Europe and India, China, Vietnam other Asian Countries with Export quotas.
2007-09-06 00:24:34 · answer #3 · answered by Sweeney 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In many countries, most notably in Asia, and the Indian continent.
2007-09-09 15:43:30 · answer #4 · answered by bgee2001ca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
visit downtown L.A. in the garment district.... above most of the street shops are sweatshops where women (and some men) work their fingers to the bone producing those fancy clothes you are wearing.... some are reported to even employ illegal immigrants and pay them less than minimum wage.... it isn't pretty.
2007-09-06 00:20:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
All over the world. They make nike shoes and Parada.
2007-09-06 00:26:26 · answer #6 · answered by TSL 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course! Pick any factory in Asia.
2007-09-06 00:20:00 · answer #7 · answered by lizardmama 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
yes, they are actually losing business due to raised US standards and shifting of jobs to other nations. Outsourcing is really hurting them.
2007-09-06 00:19:42 · answer #8 · answered by blackeagle 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They are all along the U.S.-Mexico border (on the Mexican side) and they are called "maquiladoras".
2007-09-06 07:04:48 · answer #9 · answered by Theresa 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-09-06 00:19:19 · answer #10 · answered by MaHaMeHe 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋