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Around the World Working Conditions

By: Charlotte Stevenson

It is important to be a responsible consumer because, your actions can have affect the people and companies who make your clothing, send over packages and food. If there is a increase in a specific product that factory or company may hire more people. Those people will start to work in horrible conditions, get horrible pay and they may get sick. Teenagers should care about the clothes they buy because, the clothing you wear may come from a company that makes people work many hours, gives them little to no pay and no sick/holidays. You should care that those people are suffering to give you clothes they probably don't have. If you know where the clothing is being made you can search online and see if they treat their employes well.











Sweatshops in China

Sweatshops in China

1.This article tells me that, the workers who are working in these China sweatshops are being taken advantage of. They are forced to work, seventy hours a week, children and adults.
2.This article tells me that the working conditions are, unbearable, the people are ruthless and these people are poor and sick. The conditions are hot, people crammed together, as if they are animals, and they do not get healthcare.
3.This article takes place in China. This article tells me about the conditions in China and how the workers are treated.
4.The article gives us varies years that they have found out what has happened
5.This article's significance is to tell us why this is happening, how many years this has happened, and it is still going on today and how the workers are being treated.
6.This article impacts me because, it shows me how cruel people are, and how the workers are treated has me feel grateful for what I have, and makes me feel empathy towards those who do work in those conditions.

waronwant.org
Poverty leads children from Madagascar to work in dangerous conditions

Poverty leads children from Madagascar to work in dangerous conditions

1. This article shows us that children are affected. Children are sent away from their families to work in horrible conditions. From the crack of dawn to pitch black in the night.
2. This article tells us that the working conditions in Africa are horrible. No shoes, dirty floor, if you sick the owners dock your pay, wherever you mess up and you don't go to school.
3. This article takes place in Madagascar, Africa.
4. This happened in 2018. But these horrendous situations still happen today, in our world we live in.
5. This article's significance is to tell us how children are being treated and how we are trying to stop it and give them a better life.
6. This article impacts me to see why we are so lucky to go to school, have friends, have phones and computers and to have sleep. This video shows me how children can move on from this horrible experience but can never forget it.

ilo.org
'Go back to work': outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor

'Go back to work': outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor

1. This affects Amazon workers everywhere. It is sad and horrible that an Amazon was on the floor dead, after having a heart attack for 20 minutes before receiving 911 help.
2. This article tells us that the working conditions are bad. The over-working of a man to his death. Caring more about the packages that get shipped out that the people that put them there.
3. This happened in Etna, Ohio. Ohio is where that Amazon worker had a heart attack and died.
4. This happened on September second, 2019.
5. This article's significance is to tell us what happens to the people who make our Amazon packages possible.
6. This article impacts me because it shows me that not all companies are as nice and loving as you see on TV.

theguardian.com
Nike Sweatshops - Never say Never

Nike Sweatshops - Never say Never

1. This affects Nike workers everywhere. They are being exploited for their work. Nike sweatshops don't care about their employes.
2. This video tells us that the conditions are horrible. The workers get minimal breaks, work sixteen hours and if they stop they are abused in many ways.
3. This video takes place around the world. In China and India for example.
4. This video tells us this happened in 2009. But this could still be happening today in our country, our world.
5. This video's significance is to show us what is happening in Nike sweatshops around the world. It shows us what big corporate companies do to small, poor countries.
6. This video impacts me and others because it shows us what we wear comes from, who makes it and how they are treated. it impacts us to take a stand in what we believe is right.

youtube.com
Yemen's workers are trapped between war and hunger

Yemen's workers are trapped between war and hunger

1. The people of Yemen are affected every day. They have been stuck in a war, with horrible working conditions and delayed pay.
2. This article tells us about how people are waiting for their pay, living in the streets and having to sell whatever they have left.
3. This article takes place in Yemen. The article tells us about the conditions in Yemen.
4. This article was released in 2017 but, these conditions still exist today in Yemen.
5. This article is telling us how the people of Yemen are waiting, for their pay, selling whatever they have left. The conditions are unfair, the wait for the pay is horrible and something should be done.
6. This article impacts me because it shows me that horrible things are happening around the world and everyone should try to help out in any way possible.

equaltimes.org

Tips:

  • Buy the clothes you need not the ones you want.

  • Buy from a thrift store, you can save money and it probably came from someone else.

  • Buy in the store. If you buy in the store you know it wasn't just made and you know it fits sot you don't have to send it back.



Citations:

Allarey, Rajah. “This Is How Nike Managed to Clean Up Its Sweatshop Reputation.” Complex, 8 June 2015, www.complex.com/sneakers/2015/06/nike-used-sweatshops-in-the-past.

Al-Mekhlafi, Baligh. “Yemen’s Workers Are Trapped between War and Hunger.” Equal Times, 11 Jan. 2017, www.equaltimes.org/yemen-s-workers-are-trapped?lang=en#.XjBko2i6PIV.

Chapman, Ben. “Amazon Workers Report 440 Serious Safety Incidents Including Fractures and ‘Sub-Zero’ Conditions.” Independent, 9 Oct. 2018, www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/amazon-warehouse-workers-safety-breaches-fractures-freezing-conditions-a8575336.html.

Chu, Kathy, and Bob Davis. “China, Levi Strauss and the Long-Simmering Battle Over Labor Rights.” The Wall Street Journal, 24 Nov. 2015, blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/11/24/china-levi-strauss-and-the-long-simmering-battle-over-labor-rights/.

nikesweatshops. “Nike Sweatshops-Never Say Never.” YouTube, 19 July 2009, youtu.be/9a_D-azUogg.

Organization, International Labour. “Poverty Leads Children from Madagascar to Work in Dangerous Conditions.” International Labour Organization, 12 June 2018, Poverty leads children from Madagascar to work in dangerous conditions.

Sainato, Michael. “ This Articl 'Go Back to Work': Outcry over Deaths on Amazon's Warehouse Floor.” The Guardian, 18 Oct. 2019, www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-warehouse-worker-deaths.

Want, War on. “Sweatshops in China.” War on Want, waronwant.org/sweatshops-china.

Yiqian , Zhang. “Child Labor in Clothing Sweatshops Exposes Weak Law Enforcement.” Global Times, 28 Nov. 2016, www.globaltimes.cn/content/1020708.shtml.