The Exploited of the Sweatshops

Sweatshops are an evil way to exploit poverty’ stricken people. Contrary to what most people argue, they do not help anybody. They are even worsening the worker’s position due to the sweatshops’ environment. The Department of Labor a business a sweatshop if it violates two or more labor laws such as child labor, minimum wage, overtime and fire safety laws. In a rug-making sweatshop in India, the workers there are bonded servants (slaves), and the workers are children. Their parents sent them off there to work off the family’s debt. A boy named Nageshwer who worked at this particular sweatshop was covered in scars from when the loom master burned him with a red-hot iron when he helped his brother and a friend escape. Nageshwer told a story to Craig Kielburger about when two other boys tried to escape, but were caught by the loom master and were beaten and stabbed to death in front of all the children as a symbol of what would happen to them if they tried to escape (CLS 87). If s...