Summary

The United States has made shopping for clothes easy and inexpensive. But at what cost? The human rights of people all over the world are constantly exploited and violated. They work for U.S. companies in factories known as sweatshops. In these sweatshops, employees are given long work hours, measly wages, and horrible working conditions. In order to prevent these sweatshops and change the way companies manufacture their clothing we have to take action and stand up for the people who cant do it themselves. In order to protect their rights we have to advocate and demand for sweatshop free products from the companies we buy from. We have to educate and be educated about this issue. We CAN change how these companies function; we just have to take act as a community and take the first steps to end this era of sweatshops.

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