Sweatshops - Then and Now

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This paper examines the sweatshops in America. The writer compares the sweatshops in America at the turn of the century to the sweatshops today. It shows the disastrous social and financial side-effects of sweatshops and how not much has changed in the horrific conditions of employment.

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"America is known throughout the world to be the nation where people are treated fairly. It is the country in which workers can demand fair treatment and receive it. It is the nation where workers walk off the job and unionize to be sure they are treated well. It seems that America is the perfect place to work. This would be true if the country had rid itself at the turn of the century of its sweatshops. America had a large sweatshop problem at the turn of the century, within hundreds of thousands of workers in the garment industry being treated like sweatshop labor. Most of America was under the impression that those were closed down at the turn of the century, but in recent years it has come to the nation's attention that sweatshops are still alive and thriving in the United States."

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