Sweatshops

Sweatshops Sweatshops After the civil war there was a division of labor in the factories in which factories began to have certain jobs for certain people and this was called specialization. As demand for ready-made clothing increased in the 1820s, shop owners found they could reduce their labor costs by cutting the cloth themselves, farming out the simple sewing tasks to women working at home, and paying them 25 to 50 percent less than male journeymen tailors. This innovation led to the rise of the garment industry sweatshop. The ready-to-wear industry expanded during the Civil War to meet the demand for uniforms. Garment manufacturers increased production by building factories and networks of seamstresses also developing a more sufficient production methods and a better understanding of sizing as they prepared to meet demands at the end of the war. Much of the work began to be done in sweatshops which were factories who employed only women and children because most men were at the war. Although many garment workers came to the United States with some tailoring experience, most entered the industry unskilled or with only the sewing skills they had learned at home. Many of the jobs were also done by immigrants sweatshops, workers, work, factories, garment, day, labor, industry, fire, began, working, women, war, shops, people, jews, immigrants, home, done, cutting, clothing, cloth, children, certain, time, ten, sweatshop, small, simple, shoes, sewing, sabotage, room, production, per