Yes, adults can work in sweatshops, which are often characterized by poor working conditions, long hours, and low wages. While sweatshops are often associated with child labor, many adults, particularly in developing countries, are also employed under these exploitative conditions. These workers may feel compelled to accept such jobs due to limited economic opportunities and high levels of poverty. Efforts to improve labor standards and enforce regulations are ongoing in many regions to combat sweatshop practices.
That's very illegal. They don't hire children to work in sweatshops!
sweatshops first started at the start of the world war one! people couldn't afford to but clothes so they sent their kids to sweatshops to work to get money for themselves
Absolutely not!
employing people who are poor children and adults and the employers don't pay them much
They are often children whose parents sold them or gave them to work in sweatshops because the family is too poor to feed them.
Some proper jobs are very difficult to find. Sometimes workers are forced to work in sweatshops either by human trafficking or slavery. Some sweatshops are operated entirely by trafficked children, because they are easy to kidnap and exploit. These are reasons why sweatshops are illegal.
Immigrants would work for low wages in unsafe conditions
Very young. About... 6 from what people know.
"No, American Apparel is proud of the fact that they do not outsource their clothing work to what could be considered sweatshops. They do outsource. Just not to sweatshop type factories."
There are over 3000 sweatshops in the World
Factories that hired children at low wages who would suffer dangerous work areas, unethical bosses, and sudden loss of employment were what came to be known as "sweatshops".
Only economic weapons are used in sweatshops. The employees might be metaphorically described as wage slaves, but they are not actual slaves. They are there voluntarily, because the need the work, underpaid though it may be.