Sweatshops

Sweatshops When you hear the word Sweatshop you begin to see pictures of small, dangerous, and dirty factories in the lower eastside of New York. In there you would find immigrant woman and children working extremely long hours without benefits and with little pay (Szumanski). Sweatshops in the garment industry are growing and changes need to be made to make the working conditions safer. One of the largest industries in the United States, the garment industry is dominated by less than one thousand manufacturers who parcel out production to about twenty thousand contractors and subcontractors, all of whom enter and exit the industry easily. The United States Garment industry has long been seen as an industry with extreme price competition, low wages, an immigrant workforce, and a vulnerability to sweatshop working conditions (Morra). The conditions in these Sweatshops are terrible and they gotten worse of late. The General Accounting office went on raids of garment sweatshops with the federal and state labor law investigators in New York City and Los Angeles. There they found bad working conditions. “Some of the citations for violations that federal or state officials issued included exposed electrical wiring, sweatshops, working, conditions, workers, szumanski, people, garment, factories, work, united, states, one, sweatshop, should, new, manufacturers, just, industry, going, contractors, because, problem, make, long, labor, immigrants, about, wages, place, needs, need, locked, law, hours, federal