Are Sweatshops Helping or Abusing the Rights of the Employer?

A sweatshop is a working environment with very difficult or dangerous conditions, usually where workers have few rights or no say in addressing their situation. This can include exposure to harmful materials, hazardous situations, extreme temperatures, or abuse from employers. Sweatshops workers are often forced to work long hours for little or no pay, regardless of any laws about overtime pay or a minimum wage. Child labor laws may also be violated. Many people believe that sweatshops are the cause for women and children exploitation; meanwhile, defenders of sweatshops, such as Paul Krugman and Johan Norberg, claim that people choose to work in sweatshops because the sweatshops offer them significantly higher wages and better working conditions compared to their previous jobs of “manual farm labor,” and that sweatshops are the beginning of a process of technological and economic development where a poor country turns itself into a rich country. In addition, sometimes when anti-sweatshop activists were successful in getting sweatshops to close, some of the employees who had been working in the sweatshops ended up starving to death, while others ended up turning to prostitution. Therefore, sometimes is not a good idea to intervene in foreign affairs. On the other hand, we can force companies from the US that are moving their factories ells were to pay workers a fair salary, but this idea will lead to an unintended consequences. A consequence such as an increase in price of clothing, toys and other products made in sweatshops can affect many American citizens in the US whom live a paycheck away from being consider poor. To sum my thoughts, I must say that for every action there are unintended consequences therefore we must reevaluate all our actions. Think twice before acting!