Walmart's Sweatshops

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What is a sweatshop? A sweatshop are workers, half the time children, work for low wages or cheap labor. Most sweatshops can be found in Central and South America, Asia, and certain regions of Europe (Background of sweatshops). Most of the labor is done by children, who have little hands to do small details, and work for couple pennies an hour compare that to ten dollars an hour in America. One retail store that has claimed to use sweatshops is about 450 billion dollar industry is Wal-mart (celebritynetworth). The conditions in sweatshops as you can imagine is poor. In the Harvest Rich factory children wake up around five am and brush their teeth with their fingers and ash since they can't afford toothbrush and toothpaste.In the sweatshop children are found working
nineteen- twenty hours shifts to meet deadlines for Wal-Mart, if not
met, beatings, working longer hours, and sometimes firing. The wages of the children were around six in a half pennies an hour but said they would like to have earn thirty-six pennies at least to be in poverty and not in misery. In the factory there is only one break for five minutes and the bathroom doesn't have toilet paper or soap. Overall, the conditions they face in reality is a billion times worse compared to students in America (Labor and Work life)

What are some changes that can be made in order to stop cheap labor and/or child labor?

Some acts that have started are human rights organization that finds companies that use sweatshops and implement child rights or worker rights. Some rights include decent wages to support families, having better working conditions, and non-abusive factories. Another way is to protest for better wages for workers that work for less than a dollar a day, but will create competition because it's easy to replace a worker if complaining about unfair payment. An idea is to take children out from many factories to have an education to educate workers to fight for better things.

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