Imagine on one side of the globe, a group of teenagers purchasing new clothes to welcome the incoming summer season. The air is fresh and brisk, as the sun shines on a beautiful afternoon. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, pre-teens in developing countries toil endlessly, attempting to mass produce clothes in their twenty-hour work days to avoid a beating from their bosses. These children must earn their breaks and sleep on the factory floor in between shifts. This issue is not only one in desperate need of interference, but is also one that questions the mindsets of businesses: economize or maintain ethical standards? The impact of sweatshop labor creates an atmosphere of financial instability, adversity, and false hope for exploited workers, which lacks viable government mitigation and intervention. Factory labor is not …show more content…
Factories are willing to objectify the lives of their employees, much of them being youth, in order to economize. Cutting costs is the primary interest of corporations, of which “‘the only thing they have substantial control over is labor’”, thus, the need for factory labor utilization (White, Atlantic). No one is safe from exhaustive factory labor, as researched by the Atlantic, a news magazine, who found that a Patagonia, a popular American brand, had found inspections that discovered “multiple instances of human trafficking, forced labor, and exploitation in Patagonia’s supply chain” (White, Atlantic). Factory labor, even voluntary, still involves abuse and work until exhaustion. Kathie Lee Gifford, a clothing designer who made a line at Wal-Mart, faced public humiliation when it was discovered that her clothes were being manufactured by “12 and 13-year-olds in Honduras” (Institute for Global Labor and Human Rights). While