Quotes About Sweatshops

Before the do-gooders "helped," they forgot to ask, why would anyone work ten hours per day for the paltry sum of $2 or $3 an hour? Would they have selected such a job if they had superior alternatives? The only conclusion is that the low-paying sweatshop job might be their best alternative. Such a person is indeed unfortunate, but they are by no means made better off by the destruction of that low-paying job.

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"

Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved.

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

Corporations cast American jobs to the sweatshops of Asia hollowing out the earning capacity of the American middle classes.

The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They'd been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittance in terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industry that exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly. And if that wasn't enough to keep me out of stores, there was this as well: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda— the advertising industry.

Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby--if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

In her article "The Feminist Side of Sweatshops," Chelsea Follett (the managing editor of HumanProgress) recounts that factory work in the 19th century offered women an escape from the traditional gender roles of farm and village life, and so was held by some men at the time "sufficient to damn to infamy the most worthy and virtuous girl.

We live in a capitalist society, so our power as people who consume is significant. I boycott unethical companies and avoid buying stuff made in sweatshops and stuff that will end up in landfills.

Ma mi chiedo se questo non sia il primo passo verso la modernizzazione che inevitabilmente nel giro di pochi anni, cura il tracoma ma porta anche un industriale di Hong Kong a installare quattro o cinque macchine da cucire in un androne de lMustang e a mettere quelle sorridenti donne, che adesso vanno al mercato, o lavano nel fiune, a cucire per otto ore al giorno le sue scarpe o le sue t.shirt

Right here in New York, people are struggling in working conditions not much safer or fairer than the sweatshops of 1911.

The reality is that past efforts to assist girls have sometimes backfired. In 1993, Senator Tom Harkin wanted to help Bangladeshi girls laboring in sweatshops, so he introduced legislation that would have banned imports made by workers under the age of fourteen. Bangladeshi factories promptly fired tens of thousands of these young girls, and many of them ended up in brothels and are presumably now dead of AIDS.