Sweatshops

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This paper declares that, without the slaves in the South, the country could not have built the global economic ties that benefited citizens around the globe. The author points out that, just as the railroad benefited from 'coolie' labor, the Chinese benefited from their slave-like labor for the railroad. The paper concludes that, while no company wants to admit that they participate in a chain of human suffering and hire people at such small wages, if these products were assembled or picked by full-wage or American union workers, the results would be stagnated sectors of the economy, creating economic hardship for a much larger sector than the small numbers who work in the fields or in Asian shoe shops.

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"In order to understand the necessary nature of these sweatshops, one must look at history and understand the utility basis of logical argumentation. Take the example of the Chinese Coolie labors working on the cross country railroad. Chinese men were immigrating to our nation during the 1850 and 1860 in large numbers. They were poor farmers because they did not understand the different agricultural products which would grow in the arid west, which would not grow in China. They needed to repay the coolie traders for their transport across the ocean."

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