Why Is Sweatshop Labor Wrong
Labor Practices Paper
Jose Cruz
PHL/320
6/5/15 Kenneth Ferguson
Sweatshop labor is something that has been going on longer than I have been alive, but has gotten a lot more attention lately. Since many American companies have been moving to some underdeveloped countries where they can get the same work done, for pennies on a dollar. This amounts to million dollar savings and benefits for the company, but at what expense? This is a question that is being debated all over the country.
Sweatshop; a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweatshop).
Personally, I think that sweatshop labor is wrong, because people are being taken advantage of, even if they do not know it, or see it that way. If a company would not have their workers work in an unsafe environment here in America, why would they allow it to happen in another country? There is a saying in the Bible that I like, and it is “do unto others as you would have done unto you”. The company owners should ask their selves, would I work for that …show more content…
Consumer demand can impact business decisions by influencing what businesses purchase and even making it more or less feasible for a business to use a particular raw material, and in this case, the sweatshop workers (http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/supply-demand-impacts-decisions-business-14047.html). These sweatshop workers are readily available, and this ensures that the company will not have to pay them much at all. This allows the companies to increase their profits, and or keep their prices low. This practice allows certain companies to keep up with their competition. Without sweatshops, some companies would not even be in business today. There is so much more competition today, than there was years ago, that companies are racing to find ways to save money any which way they
Jose Cruz
PHL/320
6/5/15 Kenneth Ferguson
Sweatshop labor is something that has been going on longer than I have been alive, but has gotten a lot more attention lately. Since many American companies have been moving to some underdeveloped countries where they can get the same work done, for pennies on a dollar. This amounts to million dollar savings and benefits for the company, but at what expense? This is a question that is being debated all over the country.
Sweatshop; a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweatshop).
Personally, I think that sweatshop labor is wrong, because people are being taken advantage of, even if they do not know it, or see it that way. If a company would not have their workers work in an unsafe environment here in America, why would they allow it to happen in another country? There is a saying in the Bible that I like, and it is “do unto others as you would have done unto you”. The company owners should ask their selves, would I work for that …show more content…
Consumer demand can impact business decisions by influencing what businesses purchase and even making it more or less feasible for a business to use a particular raw material, and in this case, the sweatshop workers (http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/supply-demand-impacts-decisions-business-14047.html). These sweatshop workers are readily available, and this ensures that the company will not have to pay them much at all. This allows the companies to increase their profits, and or keep their prices low. This practice allows certain companies to keep up with their competition. Without sweatshops, some companies would not even be in business today. There is so much more competition today, than there was years ago, that companies are racing to find ways to save money any which way they