Woman in the Garment Industry as Slaves

Sweatshops have existed for decades and are associated with terrible working conditions. Regardless of the gender and/or location no one should have to endure what the workers in these sweatshops go through, just because they are trying to make a living. In this paper I would firstly, like to take you along on a journey with the sweatshops workers especially the women and to why their conditions have not improved throughout time. Secondly, I would list our some of the conditions amongst many which the women workers in sweatshops many sweatshops go through, further more I will argue why I believe that these women are considered to be modern slaves. Thirdly, to balance the arguments I want to quote and discuss some points that sweatshop defenders have made to give excuses as to why sweatshops still exist today and why they are a good thing for our society as well as to why these women work in the sweatshops even though they claim it is a choice.

The concept of a sweatshop has its origins between 1830 and 1850 as a specific type of workshop in which a certain type of middleman, the sweater, directed others in garment making (the process of producing clothing). Between 1850 and 1900, sweatshops attracted the rural poor to rapidly-growing cities, and attracted immigrants to places like East London, England and New York City's garment district, located near the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. More conditions include working long hours for little pay, regardless of any laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage, violation of child labour laws, Employing low levels of technology but produce many different goods, for example, toys, shoes, clothing, and furniture and women workers facing sexual abuse, and have no privacy. In 1910, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was founded in an effort to improve the condition of these workers, although this exploitation is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same that is why we call it MODERN...