Effects Of Sweatshops In Australia

Background Information

Introduction: The term ‘sweatshops’ means; A factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Sweatshops are involved in many terrible breaches of Human Rights Breaches, Fuelling Greed, Feminism and Environmental Impacts which then lead to bad situations causing deaths, injuries and further corrupted situations.

Human Rights Breaches: Australia is outsourcing the production of goods from developing countries because of low labour costs. The workers in the sweatshops are suffering in unsafe and poor working conditions. Then clothes are exported at low costs which means extremely higher profit for Australia. Thousands of workers are being brutally abused just because they are asking for a higher pay to feed their families and to also make a living for themselves. All workers are treated like machines or slaves, having them trapped in a massive factory that is totally limited with
People are being persuaded by fashion industries to keep purchasing clothing and then after a while they are forced to bin there clothing as the fashion industry in constantly changing, giving consumers no chance but to get rid of their clothing as soon as the fashion is updated. Big companies are trying to get the cheapest prices so that they can make as much profit as possible for their company and by using ‘sweatshops’, that is their best way to make others suffer but make themselves extremely more profit. Companies are also threatening sweatshop factories to have their products produces elsewhere if they don’t get a perfect price, so obviously the sweatshop will undertake the deal with companies because the owner will still earn a massive amount of profit for himself but not for the workers because they are considered ‘not