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Sweatshirt To The Sweatshop Analysis

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In the essay "Sweatshirt to the Sweatshop", intellectual standards and logical fallacies has been violated. First of all, author pointed out that "a recent report done by the WorldWeave Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded by American garment workers’ unions, Transterra owns five factories in Third World countries, its four small factories focus on the production of baby and children’s wear.” This violates the intellectual standard of significance and relevance. This article is to inform the reader about the factory conditions in a foreign country. It is also to persuade the students to stop Cromwell from buying from Transterra Textiles. Because the audiences are college students, telling them that Transterra Textile also producing …show more content…

The author violates another intellectual standard, the breadth when he takes only his point of view. He does not consider whether workers that work for that company are happy to work there, and the working conditions that we think are horrible are normal for them. For example, working ten-hour shifts is normal in Asian countries, especially Vietnam. In order to fix it, author may add more evidences stating how exhausting it is or at least some workers' testimonies to make sure that workers believe that they are abused, not we believe that working under these condition means abusing the …show more content…

The writer indicated that there is a cause effect relationship by saying if we wear the shirts, we are abusing the employees. It suggests that if one thing happens and the other thing will definitely follow too. In order to fix it, author should give more explanations how wearing the shirt cause abusing child labor instead of jumping into the conclusion that wearing the shirt means we are accomplices in abusive employment. If we don't wear it, no one will produce it which would be leading to

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