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Most factories are at risk of fire accidents due to poor wiring and electrical safety standards and basic awareness. A young garment worker at his working station. His work consists of stitching labels to blue jeans. Bangladesh's garment industry is the second-largest exporters of textiles after China and has a notorious fire safety record. More than 1, people died at a garment factory fire outside Dhaka in in one of Bangladesh's worst industrial accidents. And the working conditions and facilities are much worse than most formal export oriented factories - which are inspected regularly.
Shanta, 11, pictured has worked in an informal garment factory for one year. She is originally from the Madaripur District, Bangladesh.
An informal garment factory located on the outskirts of the center of Dhaka Beyond the label. The working conditions and facilities are of much lower quality than most formal export oriented factories as they aren't subjected to similar safety controls.
Children don't have time to go to school - as they only get half a day off per week. Polluted: Landscape behind the informal garment factories at Keraniganj in Dhaka. This district host hundreds informal factories. Globally, the following industries commonly use sweatshops to cheaply produce goods for retailers:. In the United States, sweatshops are predominantly used in the garment industry: in , the DOL estimated that as many as 22, garment shops in the United States fit their definition of a sweatshop.
This is primarily because these major cities have easy access to a large group of undocumented immigrants who may take a chance on any labor in order to make money for their families. Sweatshops primarily exist in order to cut costs associated with production and manufacturing. One of the most common labor violations in domestic sweatshops is wage and benefits violations: many of these immigrants are underpaid and overworked, paid well below the minimum wage, and working long, double-digit shifts without any overtime pay.
Further, some of the most egregious sweatshops utilize human trafficking to employ cheap labor that essentially is paid slave wages. Cutting production costs allow retailers to sell products at either a higher profit margin or in higher quantities — allowing them to maximize profits for the benefit of their owners. Unfortunately, nearly all of the most popular, well-known brands in the United States employ sweatshops to some degree to produce their goods.
Companies such as Forever 21 , Ross, and TJ Maxx have been major offenders in regards to utilizing sweatshops located in the United States.
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