Journal

ESL450

Chengsen Yang

6/3/2014

A

SWEATSHOP OPPRESSION

The writer is Rajeev Ravisankar. No any background about this writer.

The writer try to expose some facts about sweatshop. The writer want to people take these facts more seriously and find a way to help these sweatshop labors.

The topic is sweatshop. This topic is international problem. We are in the era of economic globalization, so sweatshop is a common problem. Its includes a lot of information.

Free-market economic is our main economic condition. So, a lot of international companies extensive use of sweatshop labor to improve their profits.

A point, “Many of these workers are forced to work 70-80 hours per week making pennies per hour” uses logic. And another point, “Unsanitary bathrooms, poor ventilation, and extreme heat, upward of 90 degrees, are also prevalent” use emotion. The writer know many of us are familiar with the term sweatshop, so we can belive what he writes.

The sweatshop is a serious problem and we need to stop this problem. We can see this thesis from the last sentence in this article. I find this thesis because the writer expose sweatshop at frist and introduce some ways to figure it out.

The write expose the facts of sweatshop at beginning of this article to prove his opinion about sweatshop is right, and introduce some ways to fix this problem. The writer provides a clear, sober and well-written analysis of the problem.

The writer use a example about universities. Universities buy a lot of products from some sweatshop to help them because companies do not want to risk losing their money. This si a good way to help sweatshop labors. The writer uses enough examples to support his opinion.

The writer use simile, he said some companies continue to stive for lower wages and lower input costs called “the race to the bottom.”

The writer use repetition to show why we have sweatshop. First time, “multination corporations are not...