2. Find an example of a sweatshop. What conditions do its workers face? What does it produce? Who buys it products? Have there been any efforts to change it?
Throughout the large country of China, there are many sweatshops. Most that are built, are used to ship and export goods all around the world, mainly to America. Sweatshops produce things from clothing to shoes to electronics. The reason why sweatshops are so popular in China is because labor is extremely cheap. Many Chinese are willing to work for next to nothing.
The conditions of these shops are horrible. Numbers ranging in 600,000 get diseases such as silicosis from breathing in the dust and other air particles. The workers work 12 or more hours, for 6 days a week. Even though they work a lot, they get paid very little. The Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC) and Labor Action China (LAC) are organizations that are trying to fix this problem..
Sources
http://www.waronwant.org/overseas-work/sweatshops-and-plantations/china-sweatshops
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