Sweatshops

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This paper discusses the issue of the United States' economic interest to save money and it is human nature to reduce one's costs; but when and where should the line be drawn? Who is to blame for the existence of sweatshops, and what factors are involved in perpetuating the cycle of poverty in developed nations that leads to sweatshops? This paper examines the roots of the sweatshop phenomena, the various economic, political, social and human issues involved, and why a resolution to the problem, though difficult, is not beyond our reach.

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"A prominent trend in the historical and current economic climate is the outsourcing of once U.S.-based employment to foreign workers at geographically distant locations. The apparel industry, in particular the clothing and shoe-making businesses, is characterized by a subcontracting of work to foreign manufacturers in an attempt to cut costs and achieve dominance over other U.S. corporate giants. The inevitable result of his penny-pinching is the boom of sweatshops, a phenomenon stemming from the clothing industry in the mid-eighteen hundreds that remains prevalent today in our environment of capitalist globalization. "

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