Sweatshops Under Fire Research Paper

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The Hidden Enslavement April 24th, 2013, a normal day where thousands of garment workers wake up and go to work in Savar, a crowded sub-district located just outside Dakha, Bangladesh. They file into the Rana Plaza building, ready for another day of extremely low income work in terrible conditions. It was not until 08:45 am when the building suddenly collapsed, trapping 3,600 workers inside. More than 1,100 people died with around 2,500 Bangladeshi people injured. The event has come to be known as the Rana Plaza Collapse and is regarded as the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history. The day prior to the devastating collapse, garment workers reported cracks in the building, a piece of information that was completely disregarded by the building’s owners who had received warnings to let no one enter the building. Thousands of people lost their loved ones that day because consumers and business owners alike did …show more content…
If I were to gather a group of my peers and ask them to look at their clothing tags, many tags would say made in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, or a myriad of other third world countries. I can guarantee that most of their clothes, if not all, were made in sweatshops overseas. Many of these sweatshops employ women and children who work for far too many hours for only two to three dollars a day, less than a living wage. These garment workers are also working in detrimental conditions filled with chemicals and safety hazards. The workers are in these terrible conditions day after day to make the clothes that we are wearing every day. Aside from the horrible quality of life that this process puts these people through, it also has terrible effects on the environment with numerous forms of pollution. This is only the surface of the countless wrongs alive in the fashion industry
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