Sweatshops
 Garment Workers |  Workers in Cambodia |  Workers in Bangladesh |
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Products by sweatshops
Shoes
Rugs
Clothes
Toys
Banana
Coffee
Statistics & Anecdotes
China is a big country. Its land is huge and the people are flooding. Using these resources, they are now often called the factory of the world. They have been exporting 34 percent of the clothing in the world. Worthy of its name, China has been experiencing a rapid growth in economy.
Despite the rapid economic growth, it backfired to the 482 million people in China, which is 32 percent of the population is living with less than 2 US dollars. 85 percent of the poor population moves outside fromt the countryside to find jobs in the cities...
The technology trend brought this issue much worse. As time goes by, the flood of information through social media has confused people from focusing on one or two issues, which caused less interest and support to this issue.
Not only the technology trend made this worse, the unemployment trend and poverty trend made it worse than before. As educated people takes all the jobs that normal poor people used to have due to the increasing trend of unemployment rate, poor people lost their jobs, which pushes them to become poorer. This forced them to move to a new place or country, which made them end up in a sweatshop...
A lot of companies hire cheap or desperate workers for their sweatshops. These are some of the companies:
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