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Bookmark or Share- 11 Facts About Sweatshops - DoSomething.orgSweatshops often have poor working conditions, unfair wages, unreasonable hours, child labor, and a lack of benefits for workers. Take a stand and protest: Ask your school to make its apparel under fair conditions.
- Sweatshop - WikipediaEmployees in sweatshops may work long hours with unfair wages, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated.
- The Danger of Sweatshops | Earth.OrgIn order to manufacture things quickly and inexpensively, sweatshop workers – often women and children – suffer grueling workdays and meager pay that does not cover basic expenses, while offering them cruel working and living circumstances.
- Sweatshop Workers Conditions - The World CountsSweatshop workers are paid as little as 3 cents per hour working up to 100+ hours a week in conditions of poor air quality and extreme heat. What is a sweatshop? Sweatshops are factories where workers work extremely long hours for very low wages under poor, often illegal, conditions. They are not a nice place to work!
- Sweatshop | Exploitation, Human Rights & Solutions | Britannicasweatshop, workplace in which workers are employed at low wages and under unhealthy or oppressive conditions. In England, the word sweater was used as early as 1850 to describe an employer who exacted monotonous work for very low wages.
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