Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Harsh Conditions

Today in class we briefly talked about the factory conditions people around the world are working in to make our clothes. The idea of the factory conditions has come across my mind a few times, but i had never thought much about it, until now. Searching through google to find out the "Nicaraguan factory conditions" since the sweater i was wearing was made there, i began to really think about the horrible lives they are living.


This brought me to thinking about the scenes i have seen in movies, and how it is probably very close to reality, while when i was little and would watch movies with these scenes, i never connected that people were still living like this. In the factory in Nicaragua, for example, the monthly salary is $130. I couldn't find the exact hours per day they worked, but i can only assume it was very long, meaning they get paid barely anything per hour.


This led to me think about the sweatshops around the world, including still in America. I never really considered how badly workers are treated even in this country. I was reading an article about sweatshops in LA, where the women were working 12 hours a day in horrible conditions, surrounded by rats and other rodents. To just think that these conditions take place all around us is shocking to think about, and has made me wonder, how can we stop it. Of course we need all the clothing being produced, but there has to be a better way to make them.

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