Sweatshops and the Children That Work in Them
Sweatshops 1
Sweatshops and the Children that work in them
Lisa Marsh
Strayer University
Business Ethics 290
Professor Tacha Brooks
Sweatshops 2
Abstract
There are so many children that are being forced and used to work in such poor conditions. I feel this is ethically wrong to basically use children in this fashion in order to mass produce a product. It exploit children in one of the worse kind of ways almost like imprisoning them for pennies and some are actually taken away from their families and imprisoned. Ethically it is wrong because these children are being used in order for big corporation to mass produce a product to be sold in the US for big dollars. There is big cooperation whose only focus is to make money and more money regardless of the harm they are doing to people who live in these Third World Countries. Their justification is that they are bringing economic value to their communities and offering programs that normally wouldn’t be offered, such as poor health care, below average schools and lastly some economic value to the community.
Sweatshops 3
Sweat Shops and the Children that work in them The first thing we need to do is understand exactly what a Sweat Shop is. It is defined as a work place where people are forced to work under extreme conditions with little to no money and benefits. Many of the workers are either verbally, physically and sexually abused or both. My focus is with the kids that have been forced to work under these extreme conditions. These kids have been promised many things in order to get them to go and work for companies that exploit them. However when they arrive they get and are treated the opposite of what they are told. Many have been sold into these Sweat Shops by their parents or relatives for a better living situation for the family to pay off landlords or taxes or simply to pay other bills, or
Sweatshops and the Children that work in them
Lisa Marsh
Strayer University
Business Ethics 290
Professor Tacha Brooks
Sweatshops 2
Abstract
There are so many children that are being forced and used to work in such poor conditions. I feel this is ethically wrong to basically use children in this fashion in order to mass produce a product. It exploit children in one of the worse kind of ways almost like imprisoning them for pennies and some are actually taken away from their families and imprisoned. Ethically it is wrong because these children are being used in order for big corporation to mass produce a product to be sold in the US for big dollars. There is big cooperation whose only focus is to make money and more money regardless of the harm they are doing to people who live in these Third World Countries. Their justification is that they are bringing economic value to their communities and offering programs that normally wouldn’t be offered, such as poor health care, below average schools and lastly some economic value to the community.
Sweatshops 3
Sweat Shops and the Children that work in them The first thing we need to do is understand exactly what a Sweat Shop is. It is defined as a work place where people are forced to work under extreme conditions with little to no money and benefits. Many of the workers are either verbally, physically and sexually abused or both. My focus is with the kids that have been forced to work under these extreme conditions. These kids have been promised many things in order to get them to go and work for companies that exploit them. However when they arrive they get and are treated the opposite of what they are told. Many have been sold into these Sweat Shops by their parents or relatives for a better living situation for the family to pay off landlords or taxes or simply to pay other bills, or