Sweatshops are manufacturing establishments in which employees work long hours under substandard conditions for low wages. Sweatshops are an important part of people's lives who work in the third world countries. Disregarding the conditions and age requirements that we find acceptable, people who live and work there don't always think of sweatshops as negatively; for people in developing countries, sweatshops are their best way of survival. Their other choices of employment are: prostitution, farming, and crime. It's a controversial issue to whether or not sweatshops should remain open and for what reasons. In my opinion although sweetshops have harsh conditions the people still need the jobs that sweatshops offer.
             Many people in developed countries find working conditions in sweatshops unacceptable because of low wages and underage workers. For example Ahmed Zia a 14-year-old Afagan refuge who earns only $2 a day and 8-year-old Kamis Saboor, an afghan refuge who should be going to school instead of working long hours in a manufacturing establishment. The conditions in sweatshops are also known to be terrible, because of the chemical hazards, the lack of ventilation and so on. But we still do not have enough evidence from theses two kids to make a clear judgment.
             " 'I dream of a job in a factory,' said Noroz Khan, who lives on a garbage dump and spends his days searching for metal that he can sell to recyclers and make only $1.40 a day"(Kristof586). This shows that sweatshops are not the worst job's in third world countries, in fact it is a lot better then searching for metal in the filth or prostituting with the chance of catching HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. Ahmed Zia even states that sweatshops are better then farm work because it's much more comfortable and pays better. One major factor that has to be considered in this argument is the fact that workers in undev...