Mother Earth

We all want to be rewarded for the hard job we earned but for people working in sweatshops it does not happen. Getting low pay and violation of 2 or more labor laws is something that is punishable in this country. None of us would dare to work in that kind of environment and we cannot imagine people working on those conditions, so we tend to think that people working in sweatshops are suffering. In certain circumstances, it is correct; the people working on sweatshops will get treated badly most of the time especially the women and children, but we need to look at it in a different point of view and think about how they feel and what they’ve been through in the past. For developed countries they see sweatshops like hell to other people but for developing countries, the people see this as an opportunity to have more freedom, gain more income and live the life they’ve always wanted. Freedom of women, improvement of people’s lives especially children, and economic growth of a developing country are the reasons why sweatshops are good for a developing country.

In recent studies, East Asia who has embraced a large number of sweatshops has had less people East Asia has embraced large numbers of sweatshops, sub-Saharan Africa has not. This graph shows that the percentage of the population living on less than $1 per day (adjusted for inflation) has fallen substantially in East Asia, while remaining relatively unchanged in sub-Saharan Africa. The graph shows the 1981–2001 periods. ("How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980 by Shaohua Chen).This study tell us that less and less people are living less than a dollar per day, which means the more money they make the more they can spend money on basic necessities such as food, water, and shelter; which they will get by buying those things from the government or through shops who pay taxes to the government. Not only that but also with more money to spend they could start small businesses. Sweatshop critics say...