Child Labour



A lot of brand-name clothes are made in sweatshops. A sweatshop is a working environment where people, mostly children, are forced to work for little pay, in a dangerous and unhealthy environment. A lot of sweatshops pay less then a dollar every day. A lot of the jobs that are done endanger the worker, and can affect the persons mental and physical health.

Sweatshops are mostly located in developing countries. A lot of times, the child’s parents owed someone money, and sent the child to work so that they could get the money. However, the child is not able to make the money and is forced to work in the sweatshop for most of their life.

The working conditions in a sweatshop are terrible. There are lots of diseases around the workplaces, and the workers are often not properly fed, so lots of the workers die of starvation.

If we do not stop sweatshops, there will be more people who will suffer in them. Things can be done to help, such as not buying clothes from companies that use sweatshops or supporting organizations that try to stop sweatshops.