B1 – Intermediate
Big businesses always want to find ways to cut their costs. One of them is to employ the goods and services from and of sweatshops. The labor cost is extremely cheap but the ugly truth is, the labor condition of people working there is horrible.
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Discussion Questions:
- What is your opinion of sweatshops?
- What are sweatshops for?
- Why are sweatshops a horrible place?
- Do you agree or disagree that big multinational companies have a big responsibility to make sure their goods do not come from sweatshops? Explain your opinion.
- Is it possible to end businesses such as sweatshops? Explain.
2 replies on “Sweatshops”
1. Sweatshops makes me very irritaterd and disgusted.
2. There are fabrics of clothes, shoes or anything else made by workers who win a ridiculous low amount of money and have very poor working conditions.
3. There are horrible places because they violate human rights: most of then are not ventilated, employees are abused, there are no toilets, there are no emergency exits in case of accidents…
4. I agree that they have a big responsibility, they can’t ignore the information about their supply chains.
5. I thinks that is possible and necesary. In my country there are a lot of new brands that are committed to local production although the price of the clothes is higher for the buyer.
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