Alternatives to sweat shops

United States
September 2, 2008 1:13pm CST
ok so every one hears about the sweat shops and children or people working really hard for barely ANY money but i had a thought the other day.. if we took the sweat shops away what would these people do for money? i am in NO way saying i agree with them but obviously some of these people and children are doing it because of no other choices and barely surviving on that amount of money.. if there were no sweat shop jobs then what could they really do?? are there enough ways of employment to where it would be able to adjust to where there isnt any one out of work? and if families are sending their kids to make money the new places might not work kids which means whatever situation at home would be worse.. people might sell their kids like they do in some countries and that would be horrible!! like i said there is NO way im saying YES to sweat shops because i think its horrible BUT i do think that if we took it away then they might not have any alternatives and their already insanely horrible lives would be that much worse.. of course i just say we should just freaking pay these people and regulate their hours to make it an acceptable working solution but of course the chances of that happening are...??
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@sharay (2769)
• India
2 Sep 08
I dont think there can be an alternative to this job, you need to have someone to do that job for you ultimately if not the ones working now...so, there is no meaning in quitting their jobs and suffering more to survive, instead there can be some rules made to protect the workers with proper work timings, rest hours, leave facilities and of course, a good wage...this would solve their problem i guess, but this job can never be eradicated totally
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• United States
3 Sep 08
so insanely sad