What's A sweatshop?
A sweatshop is where young children who can be aged under 10 years old that are forced to do labour for a big company that pays them low or not at all. This is where our topic focuses on. Our goal is to raise awareness to sweatshops of what they are forcing young children to do. We need to stop sweatshops from forming!
This is the opposite of fair trade. If you want to know what that is, select 'What is fair trade?' under 'The basic basics'.
Here is a link to a youtube video about an 11 year old girl making underwear for Hanes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTIfY9SmJdA&feature=related
This is a good film to watch to learn about how this girl is treated in an average sweatshop.
More information coming soon...
This is the opposite of fair trade. If you want to know what that is, select 'What is fair trade?' under 'The basic basics'.
Here is a link to a youtube video about an 11 year old girl making underwear for Hanes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTIfY9SmJdA&feature=related
This is a good film to watch to learn about how this girl is treated in an average sweatshop.
More information coming soon...
If you want to compare sweatshops with Canadian child labour, here is the pdf download for Canadian child labour laws.
Canadian Child Labour Laws | |
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