1. Sweatshops In Garment factories in the World SMHM 2750 Consumers in Global Market By: Aundrea Davis

2. Issues with Sweatshops “women who slave for long hours on a sewing machine creating garments by hand, unfit working conditions and the indecent pay visualized by companies to keep labor cost low is at all an unacceptable factor that promotes repulsion to any labor laws or unions and most importantly the cruelty of enslaved children who work in these harsh environments against their will”

3. Women and Sweat shops “ The women work in an environment where the levels of noise, dust, heat, humidity and even poisonous chemicals exceed the allowable limit. Not only are conditions are very harmful, it is said that women who work in these conditions will be physically as well as psychologically worn out in just 5-10 years “

4. Statistical Facts of discrimination towards women + Wages as low as six cents an hour + Work ten to twelve hour shifts + Overtime is mandatory in many cases + In certain sweatshops only two drinks of water and one bathroom + Break are allowed per shift + Supervisors will use almost any means to keep employees in line, including sexual harassment, and physical and verbal abuse.

5. Enslaved Children Child Labor Laws Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant

6. GAP Inc. and Enslaved Children Gap has been criticized for outsourcing large contracts to the developing world. In 2004, when it launched its social audit, it admitted that forced labor, child labor, wages below the minimum wage, physical punishment and coercion were among abuses it had found at some factories producing garments for it. It added that it had terminated contracts with 136 suppliers as a consequence

7. The Horror of Delhi and Gap Kids The discovery of the children working in filthy conditions in the Shahpur Jat area of Delhi has renewed concerns about the outsourcing by large retail chains of their garment production to India, recognized by the United Nations as the world's capital for child labor. According to one estimate, more than 20 per cent of India's economy is dependent on children, the equivalent of 55 million youngsters under 14. The Observer discovered the children in a filthy sweatshop working on piles of beaded children's blouses marked with serial numbers that Gap admitted corresponded with its own inventory.

8. Cambodia ’ s Effort to Change Cambodia is seeking to become the rare Third World country to develop economically while treating workers reasonably well. No other country depends as much on its garment industry as Cambodia. And no other garment industry so depends upon the United States, which buys two-thirds of the shirts, trousers and jackets made here.

9. Advantage of Workers in Sweat Shops In nine of the eleven countries, the reported sweatshop wages equal or exceed average incomes in the country where they are located, in some cases by a large margin.

10. Make or Break Workers Every Third World factory boss knows the formula for success: Drive your workers to the point of exhaustion and pay them as little as possible. If they complain, replace them.

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