ok so I'm always trying to help animals, the planet, and all things that cant speak out. I've rejected using many products that i found out that test on animals or that have animal ingredients... I try to help the environment also as much as I can... but its time for me to help the humans. Its not like i havent... i've made food for the homeless and i've donated thing to the needy and so on...but those aren't the only people who need help... I try to do as much as I can. so fighting against sweatshops is my next plan. I want nothing to do with companies that have sweatshops and abuse poor little children, and also adults, by making them work in awful conditions and for terrible pay that doesn't even get higher than a dollar a day. I was doing some reading but I would really like a list of the companies that have sweatshops around the world... I cant find a detailed list. does anyone know of a site or maybe can tell me a company you know of? I apreciate any info. thanks!!!
what you need to do is watch a little link tv and get the up and up on Saipan? because there is some bad things going on !!!!
so should i buy food for my son from albertsons ?and thats antiwage problem man , but 7 bucks to check food is good in grand junction , trust me ! good link though its right across from my house i mention what i mention cus i have seen the report and film i try my best not to buy nam,e brands
Don't buy anything made in China! The majority of the "factories" there would probably fall into most peoples definition of a "sweat shop". Heck, don't buy anything made in a third world country for that matter. You wouldn't want to contribute those poor folks at least having a place to work at all and being able to pay for some rice that they would otherwise not be able to afford if they didn't work, for the most part, the only workplace available.
Sweatshops have become a problem. Look on the back of your t-shirt, most likely it was made in a third world country. We need a way to fight back. I propose boycott. Also, gimme the chance and every celebrity in the country goes to Kazakhstan to have their sweat collected to make their own fucking self-titled perfume! BAH!
Actually I think that if we boycotted goods made in factories in third-world countries, the governments there would be forced to make new jobs, and the companies exploiting the people working in those sweatshops would be forced to treat its workers better for people over here to buy! I bolded factories because if some poor artisan makes a piece of pottery and you want it, you aren't helping to exploit him by buying it. Fight the powah.
You could buy clothing and furnature/houswares at thriftstores. not only do you help out your community, it means you buy one less product made in a third world country, lessening the problem
Buy from local stores, thrift stores, and from stores that buy directly from indigenous people. When you buy clothes and other things made by artisans in countries where sweatshop labor is prevalent, you support the people and don't support the sweatshops, and you'll probably get something original and better-made than otherwise. As far as the comment that boycotting sweatshop labor takes away what little money people working in sweatshops have, buying clothes and crafts from artisans in third world countries is a good solution to that problem, and also that the point of boycotting sweatshops is that often the people in sweatshops aren't getting paid enough to afford food and other necessities, and also that thousands of workers die each year due to exhaustion from long hours, and injury or sickness caused by unsafe and unsanitary working conditions. So, do what you can, I think that what you're doing is really admirable. As far as finding a list of companies that use sweatshops, that's pretty much impossible. The relationship between retailers and manufacturers is pretty distant. For instance, Nike is a company that uses sweatshop labor, but not all of it's factories are sweatshops, it's hard to know whether the product that you're buying is made in a sweatshop or not. There's no big list of corporations that use sweatshop labor, so, I'd strongly encourage you to shop locally or at secondhand stores if you want to avoid supporting sweatshop labor.
Stopping unfair labor practices are important, but my advice is instead of focusing on the right and wrong things to buy, which will not effect trade practices at all, and instead right up your representatives demanding they support better business practices from countries we import from. Not buying products from China is bad principle. China's business practices have gotten much better over the past two decades, and although their wages may seem lower ($1 an hour) compared to the markets they live in, this is a competitive wage. $1 buys much more in rural china then in the US. Moreover, the trade revolution in China has been the best thing for Chinese. When China was an isolated country 4 decades ago, the worst famines in human history happened. Over 30 million people starved, (over 8 million in the Sichuan province). After we opened trade with China, the economy of China has exploded, and 40 years later famine is unthinkable in China. We certainly need to insist on better busniess practices, but the effects of trade on Chinese culture have been unbelivable. In 35 years of trade with China, China has transformed from a dangerous nuclear power with frequent famines, to almost an ally where they've even outlawed torture as a part of investigations in the past few years. Trade with China has been excellent for the people of China. There are a lot of things that they need to change in their busniess practices, but they've made a lot of important changes. There are countries which are a lot more important to focus on in terms of trade, such as Malaysia and Vietnam. Even in these cases we can't shut down the industry to these countries, as it would be devastating to the citizens of Malaysia and Vietnam. Write your congressmen.
