Sweatshop ExploitationU.S. Companies hoping to lower costs and increase production result in the exploitation of workers, in factories around the world, who work for extremely low wages and in substandard conditions. Factories that fail to offer their employees fair working conditions, decent wages, and those that use child labor can be considered sweatshops. There are differing opinions on who should be held responsible for the conditions in these factories and also on what should be done about factories identified as sweatshops. But there seems to be a general consensus that, as a human rights issue, some sort of change needs to be made to ensure the safety and well-being of these workers. factories offering cheap labor. However, many of these factories, usually in Third World countries, do not have the same standards for their workers that we are accustomed to in the United States. Products that commonly come from these sweatshops include clothing, shoes, and carpets. Sweatshops have no employee benefits and pay extremely little, with employees usually not even paid enough to meet basic needs such as food and shelter. Employees working in sweatshops may face long working hours with forced overtime, low wages, may be subject to verbal or physical abuse, crowded rooms with poor ventilation, and unsafe buildings. Workers are usually coerced or prevented from joining unions. A recent example of the treatment of factory employees is the collapse of a factory building in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013. Some of the items produced in this factory were clothes for Benetton and The Children... they're halfway there. .....or jobs in the new service economy and have difficulty finding work. And to make matters worse, if they do manage to find work in the service sector, they are usually paid less than the jobs they lost in the manufacturing sector (Hodson & Sullivan, 2012). Works citedUNICEF (n.d.). Children pay a high price for cheap labor. Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/pon95/chil0016.html Hodson, R., & Sullivan, T. A. (2012). The social organization of work (5th ed.). CengagePublishing.Institute for Global Labor and Human Rights (2013). Factory collapse in Bangladesh. Retrieved from http://www.globallabourrights.org/campaigns/factory-collapse-in-bangladeshWorld Fair Trade Organization (2013). 10 principles of fair trade. Retrieved from http://www.wfto.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=11 http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/index.html