Sweatshops Research Paper

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You walk into your favorite clothing store. You pick up a shirt for 5 dollars. Thats a good price for a shirt. Well for you to buy that shirt at 5 dollars, someone else had to starve. Someone else had to work for 15 hours a day for you to buy that shirt. Someone else had to suffer through horrible conditions. Just for you to buy that shirt. But how is this happening? The answer, sweatshops.

Tens of thousands of young men and women were brought to Japan being promised better working conditions and training. Instead they found themselves working 16 hours a day assembling things like cell phones for below minimum wage. Noxious gases were coming up from the machines making unsafe working conditions. 127 trainees have died since 2005 because of work related reasons. That means about 1 in every 2600 people working there die.

In Bangladesh the average wage is little more than 26.86 dollars per month. They work 14-16 hours a day 7 days a week for 26 dollars and 86 cents a month. Compared to the U.S.A where the average salary per month is 3,769 dollars. Since 1990, 400 workers have died because of the conditions and thousands have gotten injured. More than 3.5 million people work in Bangladesh sweatshops. There are groups trying to protect the workers. The National Garment Workers' Federation (NGWF) is taking
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The workers got paid about 100 dollars per month. Buildings collapse and people die. They work 6 days a week and 8 hours a day. They get paid about 3 dollars per day where bill gates get paid around 33.3 million dollars per day. The workers sleep on cold floors and for lunch they get plain rice with fish that generally has flies swarming around it. Many people that die of starvation because they can't afford food. And if that's not bad enough people get beaten with iron rods and sticks, for even the smallest mistakes. But with your help everybody could have their basic