Sweatshop labour
SWEATSHOP LABOUR ARGUMENT AND THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
ASSIGNMENT NO 2
RIZWANA MASOOD
F11MB001
SWEATSHOP: INTRODUCTION & BRIEF HISTORY
Sweatshop labor is a negative term that is used for the working environment that is very difficult and dangerous to work in. It is a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours and get very low pay and they work under extreme poor conditions. The shop or factory that violates more than 2 labor laws is a sweatshop. The main characteristics of sweatshop are low wages, poor working conditions, child labor, lack of employee benefits and unreasonable hours.
Products that usually come from these sweatshops are toys, rugs, chocolate, coffee and shoes etc. Consumer cost of the items coming from the sweatshop will increase by 1.8% if the salary of the sweatshop worker is doubled. Sweatshops don’t lessen the poverty because the employees spend the majority of money to feed themselves and their families. Women make up 85-90 of sweatshop worker.
The concept of sweatshop has been originated between 1830 and 1850 as a specific type of middlemen, the sweater, order other under difficult conditions in garment making industry. Between 1850 and 1900, sweatshops attracted the rural poor to rapidly-growing cities, and attracted immigrants to places such as London and New York. The criticism on these sweatshops were that they were crowded, poorly ventilated and also were prone to fire.
These criticisms were the major reason that forced workplace safety regulations and labor laws. In many cases, sweatshops conditions resemble prison labor. As the roots of sweatshops lie in the conceptual foundation of world economy that’s why it has been proved as a difficult issue to resolve.
SWEATSHOP & LAW OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
The law of comparative advantage states that the international trade will be beneficial for both the countries; developed and developing in the long run. It is because the
ASSIGNMENT NO 2
RIZWANA MASOOD
F11MB001
SWEATSHOP: INTRODUCTION & BRIEF HISTORY
Sweatshop labor is a negative term that is used for the working environment that is very difficult and dangerous to work in. It is a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours and get very low pay and they work under extreme poor conditions. The shop or factory that violates more than 2 labor laws is a sweatshop. The main characteristics of sweatshop are low wages, poor working conditions, child labor, lack of employee benefits and unreasonable hours.
Products that usually come from these sweatshops are toys, rugs, chocolate, coffee and shoes etc. Consumer cost of the items coming from the sweatshop will increase by 1.8% if the salary of the sweatshop worker is doubled. Sweatshops don’t lessen the poverty because the employees spend the majority of money to feed themselves and their families. Women make up 85-90 of sweatshop worker.
The concept of sweatshop has been originated between 1830 and 1850 as a specific type of middlemen, the sweater, order other under difficult conditions in garment making industry. Between 1850 and 1900, sweatshops attracted the rural poor to rapidly-growing cities, and attracted immigrants to places such as London and New York. The criticism on these sweatshops were that they were crowded, poorly ventilated and also were prone to fire.
These criticisms were the major reason that forced workplace safety regulations and labor laws. In many cases, sweatshops conditions resemble prison labor. As the roots of sweatshops lie in the conceptual foundation of world economy that’s why it has been proved as a difficult issue to resolve.
SWEATSHOP & LAW OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
The law of comparative advantage states that the international trade will be beneficial for both the countries; developed and developing in the long run. It is because the
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