Sweatshops: The Power Of Protest By Marlene Spoerri

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Sweatshops are factories or places that have people working in bad conditions for low pay. Big companies like GAP, Guess, and more own these sweatshops. They do this as a way to save money even though other people will suffer. I think there needs to be an end put to it. Mainly because the conditions and extremely low pay they get. There needs to be something done because peoples’ voices are heard but when an official or some sort of government power tells people about it or does something, then there is usually more done. So, governments need to do something about it. The wages are much to low for the price the items are sold at. In “The Power of Protest” by Marlene Spoerri it states that workers can get paid as little as ½ a cent an hour!

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