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Sweatshops During The Industrial Revolution

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Sweatshops have existed prior to the 1980s during the Industrial Revolution. In the United States, however, sweatshops were being used to create college apparel. College students during this era were were oblivious and did not realize who were the people creating the college apparel sold in their school’s bookstores. The rise of sweatshops arose when there was a decline of transportation and communication costs since the 1960s, thus the garment manufacturers were left to move their factories overseas to avoid the high wages of U.S. labor (Featherstone). Consequently, these factories only hired women, who underwent severe treatment from their supervisors.
In the United States, immigrant women were organizing and protesting against these harsh
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