Friday, February 25, 2011

You think your job sucks?

If you think your job sucks, imagining working at the age of 10. Many people are not aware of this and would be very concerned to think that ten year old children are working in some countries. So the question lies, should we know where our clothes are made and by whom? When thinking about this topic we both decided that the most realistic answer to this question is simply no. We should not care where our clothes come from and who makes them we should just be happy that we have clothes and a wonderful country that supplies us with stable jobs. If we stop and focus on where our clothes come from and discover that very young children are making them for little money, most likely we will stop buying them and try to help these children by starting a boycott. However, what we don't realize is that we are actually hurting them by not purchasing the clothing. If these children can't make clothes they can't make money. If they can't make money then they can't buy food. When these children don't have food they can't survive. In our country we have it easy we are taken better care of than in several other countries. Therefore, it may be harder to understand why other countries make very young children work for long hours instead of sending them to school.
As customers, we should not be concerned about where are clothes are made and by whom for several reasons. Even though many of our clothes are made by young children who work in sweat shops, most people don't realize that the reason these kids are working is to help support their family. We also purchase these clothes to help keep them from starving. Yes, this may sound terrible to us because we are never around this in our country but the circumstances are completely different in other countries where the income is so low that if they don't work they will starve to death and lead a harsher life.

4 comments:

  1. This just shows how complicated sweat shops really are. It's hard to understand that while they are awful conditions they still provide money for food.

    Kayla

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  2. Yeah like above this really explains how complicated sweatshops are implemented into our society. Do we stop buying and condoning this from happening or do we continue to buy and have these kids work a lot at a young age? Honestly having us buy these products helps their economy and helps their people live.

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  3. Hello, i think if we were involved enough in the economy and actually acknowledged where our clothing came from we could put a stop to sweatshops, but this would have to involve everyone and not just a few people. We should manage things well enough to make sure these kids aren't dropping out of school just to earn underpaid work wages.
    - jenny

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