It’s estimated that over 168 million people work in sweatshops making products for the consumer but at astonishing low prices who could complain? Working conditions, despite being subpar, are designed to be efficient and inexpensive to run. In such an efficient system products are able to be mass produced supplying the world market with garments at low prices. Most workers do not make more than a few dollars a day but are able to support themselves. Sweatshops are integral to the economies and well being of workers in underdeveloped regions.
Without these sweatshops many, if not all, employees would not be able to support themselves let alone a family. the income that these workers receive is essential to their survival in these impoverished
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Sweatshops create an incredible opportunity to provide cheap items for the people all over the world. For example, typical cost for a wool coat that was made in the United States is one hundred dollars and sometimes even more. The same style coat made in Bangladesh, with comparable stitching and material, can be found for only twenty five dollars. This massive price gaps show how important sweatshops are for everyday people all over the world. There are many people who live on low wages, unable to spend more than twenty dollars on one piece of clothing. If sweatshops were eliminated how would these families afford clothing that costs over one hundred dollars? Clothing is just one of the numerous items mass produced though; if sweatshops were indeed shut down completely massive price spikes would be seen in of the Walmart inventory. Appliances that once costed around a dollar would now cost about ten, and this is only for one item. If this were the case with every product cost of living would increase drastically to something many people can’t live on. Shutting down sweatshops wouldn’t just financially devastate those who work for the sweatshops, but it would directly hurt the everyday consumer on a national