Essay #1 Word Count: 804 “Sweatshop Oppression” by Rajeev Ravisankar What is a sweatshop? Well‚ a sweatshop is a work environment with long hours‚ low wages‚ and difficult or dangerous conditions. Why are they frowned upon? Ravisankar expresses and demonstrates the many reasons why sweatshops are unethical. His attempt to convince the audience‚ sweatshops are degrading human rights is successful because of his skillful word choice and confident tone. Ravisankar grasps the attention of many consumers
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Ravisankar begins his essay by giving us in insight about how people would go to the extreme just to get their hand or to have the opportunity to buy as much as they can for as little as possible especially on black Friday. The problem he identifies in his article‚ is the high human cost and forced people in sweatshops have to work per week for just pennies an hour just to make the necessary for their survival. Ravisankar assumes his readers know little about sweatshops and furthermore‚ how difficult
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coaches are highly appreciated‚ no one might acknowledge the great contribution of people like Janu Akther‚ a 22-year-old man who works in sweatshops in Bangladesh to produce American collegiate apparel―an indispensable part of the game. An $18 baseball cap can be a joy of many American people to wear but a dirty exploitation device in Akther’s mind. As a sweatshop laborer‚ he works every day from early morning until late night in miserable conditions of heat and dangerous machine. Each hour laboring
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John Bruni ENG112 Professor RobinsSevel 5 February 2014 Behind Your Style Rajeev Ravisankar‚ a writerwrite for Ohio State University’s newspaper‚ The Lantern‚ brings the term sweatshop to the attention of his readers (when does he do this? In a 2004 article about bananas? Give the reader more to go on here).. He (Ravisankar) first connects with them (who) by putting himself in the same boat as them by stating that being a “poor” college student drives them to go to extreme lengths to get clothing;
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Quick facts on sweatshops; > Girls between the ages of 15 and 25 make 85% of the workforce in sweatshops >Up to 75% of a sweatshop worker’s income is spent on necessities such as food‚ clothes‚ etc. >on average workers have a 60-80 hour workweek in a sweatshop > in china‚ 2009‚ about 1‚000‚000 workers were injured on the job and 20‚000 got sick from their work in hazardous conditions >Workers are forced to handle dangerous chemicals and glues in sweatshops with little or no protection > A child working
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Flexible Specialisation and the persistence of the sweatshop Sweatshops are known to be a mass of workers mass-producing goods they may never be able to afford themselves. The sweatshop rose to meaning as work moved off the farm and into the city‚ and employers found a limitless amount of so called labourers to make their products. The low entry costs and high labour intensity linked with the textile industry tended to concentrate sweatshops in clothing production. As industrialization grew‚ labour
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Sweatshops Throughout the years‚ United States businesses have had to face protests from government officials‚ labor leaders‚ and student organizations due to employing sweatshop labor. If you are unaware of what sweatshops are‚ they are generally characterized as a place of employment that have very low pay‚ very long hours of work‚ and terribly poor working conditions. After hearing this‚ most people would assume that is awful and they should be illegal and banned immediately from all countries
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In this day and age‚ multinational corporations control the market‚ the time of the local taylor and mom-and pop stores are over. While these companies sell goods in 1st world countries‚ their produce comes from sweatshops primarily in developing nations. Sweatshops are not legal; they are defined by the US Department of Labor as factories that violates 2 or more labor laws. The government of these third world countries and the corporations are at fault. While they line their pockets‚ their workers
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Nowadays‚ sweatshops are becoming more and more obvious all around the world‚ especially in the developing countries. In the article “Two cheers for sweatshops”‚ Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn note that sweatshops play an important role not only in people’s daily life but also in the national economy‚ even though there are some shortages of them. However‚ Tom Hayden and Charles Kernaghan give their idea in “Pennies an hour and no way up”‚ that the conditions of workers in sweatshops should be
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Sweatshop: Sweat Not! “It’s [cheap labor] the fastest-growing criminal market in the world‚” (Edmondson 149) Gail Edmondson writes in an article discussing cheap labor. Economic growth has always been a large interest for most countries. Due to many high unemployment rates‚ corporations take advantage of the lower classes by enforcing cheap labor. Cheap labor is the employment of people with very low wages‚ under poor or unsafe conditions. Since people in the lower class do not have much money‚ they
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