"Individuals voluntarily choose to work in these environments. If the wages and conditions are so bad, why would anyone choose to work there? "
When a poor person decides to work in a sweatshop it is usually to simply feed their family and provide a home. When they start working in a sweatshop they don’t ever think "where is my life going?" "What am I getting out this job?" "Do I like this job?" Questions like these are not asked by the workers as they don’t know they can ask such questions.
We choose and define our perfect jobs by looking for competitive salaries, how much we enjoy the work, whether we get along with colleagues. This is what we consider when looking for a job. The writer of the article is fortunate enough never to have worked in a sweatshop and faced the everyday struggle of a garment worker. His reality and their reality are about as close as slim-fast shakes are to McDonald’s milkshakes!
"The job in a sweatshop is better than no job at all."
What is the choice for sweatshop workers? Sit and watch loved ones starve or go to work? Is this even a choice between eating and starving? This can’t be a choice!
If the people in power share the same thoughts as the writer, it’s easy to see how we ended up with millions of sweatshops.
Check it out,
The Economics of Sweatshops
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