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Sweatshops

Sweatshops. Definition :. A shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions. Factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry  . Began between 1830 and 1850 Caused by industrial revolution

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Sweatshops

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  1. Sweatshops

  2. Definition: • A shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions. • Factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry 

  3. Began between 1830 and 1850 • Caused by industrial revolution • Began in the Garment Industry • London, New York City • Sweating (1840’s) • Long Hours • Low Wages • Unsafe Conditions

  4. Sweatshops and Wal-Mart • Wal-Mart products • Produced in 48 different countries • Products mainly from Asian (China, Bangladesh) and Central American (El Salvador) factories • Produced using sweatshop labor

  5. Textiles and Wal-Mart • Produced by young women 17 to 25 years old • Forced to work seven days a week • 12 to 28 cents an hour • No benefits • Housed in crowded and dirty dormitories • 24-hour-a-day surveillance

  6. “Toys of Misery” and Wal-Mart • Seventy-one percent of the toys sold in the U.S. come from China • 13- to 16-hour days molding, assembling, and spray-painting toys • 20-hour shifts in peak season (Christmas) • Seven days a week • Paid as low as 13 cents an hour • Live in Shacks or Dorms • No medical care or safety equipment • Poor Conditions

  7. Some of the common abuses in the sweatshops • Forced overtime • Locked bathrooms • Starvation wages • Pregnancy tests • Denial of access to health care • Workers fired and blacklisted • Occasional beatings • Withheld wages

  8. Companies Supporting Sweatshop Factories • GAP • Nike • OLD NAVY • Banana Republic • Reebok • Adidas • Bridgestone • Firestone • Uniroyal • Starbucks • Sears

  9. Companies Supporting Sweatshop Factories • Mattel • Dell • Hewlett Packard • Motorola • G.E. • Walt Disney • Target • Home Depot • J.C. Penny • + others

  10. Sources Business Week http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_48/b4011001.htm Business Research Yearbook http://cbae.nmsu.edu/mgt/handout/boje/bnike/index.html MCSpotlight http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/companies/antiwalmart.html Labor Rights http://www.laborrights.org/projects/corporate/walmart/index.html United Food and Commercial Workers http://www.ufcw.org/press_room/fact_sheets_and_backgrounder/walmart/sweat_shops.cfm

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