- Ginsburg, R., & Levin, R. (n.d.). Sweatshops in Chicago: A Survey of Working Conditions in Low-income and Immigrant Communities. Center for Impact Research.This study was carried out in Chicago, mostly focused on low income, immigrant communities. And they were given a survey, from that survey the two men conducting this survey categorized whether they are working in a sweatshop or not. They wrote all their findings in their book. I used this evidence to help show that immigrants in the Chicago communities are the ones being affected by the sweatshops. Also if some respondents were categorized as working in a workshop, that must mean that there are still sweatshops here in Chicago.
- Wong, A. (2013, May 01). Two Faces of Economic Development: The Ethical Controversy Surrounding U.S.-Related Sweatshops in Developing Asian Countries. Retrieved May 16, 2016, from http://www.globalethicsnetwork.org/profiles/blogs/two-faces-of-economic-development-the-ethical-controversy This article gave both sides to sweatshops, how it was good and how it was bad. The good was really only good for the business owners and the big companies. Because they were the only ones making money from sweatshops. They talked about how sweatshops are good for our economy, but affect the people. I used this article to give an example of what mindset started sweatshops. People who thought like what the article said, is why sweatshops most likely began. This article was a good evidence to help prove my point.
- Wilson, D. L. (2009, December 09). David L. Wilson, "Who Really Benefits From Sweatshops?" Retrieved May 16, 2016, from http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2013/wilson120913.html This article mentioned a specific business man named Bruce B. who is head of a company that has companies in low wage areas. Which basically means they use sweatshop labor. It also talked about how he said if they give their workers safer working conditions that they would have to start charging people more money, and he didn't think people would accept this. The author goes on to saying the price point has more to do with the brand and not how it was made. I used this of an example to show how people are trying to save money at the expense of the workers.
- "People's World." Sweatshops in America? Yes, at T-Mobile Call Centers » Peoplesworld. N.p., 16 July 2013. Web. 04 Mar. 2016. I will use this article to talk about a modern day sweatshop with a company most people are familiar with. This article talked about a T Moblie company being exposed for being similar to a sweatshops. They were working very long hours and their working conditions were not ideal. So people began to complain and they conditions did not meet the USA standards. This was good evidence to use as a way to let people know that sweatshops can be in America too. Even though most people believe that sweatshops are in third world countries, there can still be some hidden sweatshops closer than they think.
- "Wage and Hour Division (WHD)." Compliance Assistance. U.S. Department of Labor. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. This was used as evidence to show what our nation has done to stop sweatshops. This article basically talks about what federal laws have taken action in trying to stop sweatshops in our country. Even though these laws kind of pushed companies to moving their shops to third world countries that had less labor laws. So in away the article can be used as a source to why sweatshops are so concentrated in other countries, and not here.
- Childress, Boyd. "SWEATSHOPS." Sweatshops. Web. 24 Mar. 2016. This was used to back up my argument that sweatshops have been around for a very long time. And the exploitation of people has gone on for centuries. This article was actually really cool because I had never thought that sweatshops would date back so far. But it did, and it proved that people have always wanted to exploit other in order to make more money or gain something. This was a good piece of evidence for me to use to establish that sweatshops are not something new to our world. And that even though it might not be very known it still happens.
- Gaille, Brandon. "36 Shocking Sweatshop Statistics - BrandonGaille.com." BrandonGaillecom. 9 Dec. 2014. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. The article was mainly about 36 sweatshop statistics. One of them being the quote I used in my research paper. I chose this quote specifically to show how over priced the products we buy are, when the company is getting most of the money. In reality is only takes 10 cents in labor to make, but we pay $60. This helped prove my point in the fact that we contribute to sweatshops for buying their products at such high prices, and just in general. This goes into the overall theme that sweatshops are being fueled by large first world countries. Even though they are only affecting the workers in third world countries and causing harm to them.
- Janssen, Kim. "Suit: Chinese Buffet Workers Made $3.50, Slept on Dumpster Mattresses." Chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2015. Web. 24 Mar. 2016. This was used to give an example of why I am passionate about my issue. Also how it affects people of my culture. Because in this article it talked about how a chinese buffet, that's actually near my school, that was exploiting its Mexican immigrant workers. They paid them low wages and horrible living conditions. When I first read this, I was so angry that this happened right here, but then I began thinking and thought about what people in other countries have to deal with. So this was a good piece of evidence to why I wanted to research and inform people about sweatshops.
- Dellimore, C. (2015, April 24). Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey Pushes Anti-Sweatshop Ordinance. Retrieved May 06, 2016, from http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/04/24/cook-county-commissioner-john-fritchey-pushes-anti-sweatshop-ordinance/
- Nasser, Haya El. "LA Garment Industry Rife with Sweatshop Conditions." Sweatshop Conditions in L.A.'s Garment Industry. N.p., 09 Sept. 2015. Web. 26 Apr. 2016. This was used as a piece of evidence to let people know of sweatshops in our nation. The article talked about how the garment industry in LA was being ran like a sweatshop. Even though there is labor laws some of them were not being followed. They were abusing of their workers and a lot of the workers were immigrant women. This showed that sweatshops can still be happening in America even though they aren't supposed to happen.
- People's World. (2004, January 23). Retrieved May 06, 2016, from http://peoplesworld.org/cintas-workers-expose-sweatshop-conditions/
- Peters, Andrea, and Joseph Tanniru. "World Socialist Web Site." United Students Against Sweatshops: Reformist Illusions in the Service of the American Trade Union Bureaucracy -. Worlds Socialist Web Site, 1 Aug. 2000. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. This was used to help give an example of how sweatshop issues are being addressed nationally. College campuses around the nation are marching and protesting against sweatshop abuses. They do not feel it is right for people to be treated the way they are treating people. Therefore, they have began to campaign for what they believe in and what they want people to know. I used this as evidence because it was a good example of young people taking action against sweatshops. They stood up and protested something they think is bad.
- Westhoff, L. M. (n.d.). Florence Kelley's Campaign Against Sweatshops in Chicago, Lesson Plan. Retrieved May 06, 2016, from http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/teacher/factory.html
- The definition of Marxism. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2016, from http://www.dictionary.com/browse/marxism This was just a really good definition for the marxism. Which is the type of lens I used to explain sweatshops. Because they involve two very different types of social classes. The rich company owners and the worker who are living in poverty. This helped me explain what marxism is to people who might not even know.
- Wilson, D. L. (2009, December 09). David L. Wilson, "Who Really Benefits From Sweatshops?" Retrieved May 16, 2016, from http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2013/wilson120913.html This article mentioned a specific business man named Bruce B. who is head of a company that has companies in low wage areas. Which basically means they use sweatshop labor. It also talked about how he said if they give their workers safer working conditions that they would have to start charging people more money, and he didn't think people would accept this. The author goes on to saying the price point has more to do with the brand and not how it was made. I used this of an example to show how people are trying to save money at the expense of the workers.
- Lapon, G. (2011, September 28). What do we mean by exploitation? Retrieved May 16, 2016, from https://socialistworker.org/2011/09/28/what-do-we-mean-exploitation This article basically talks about how exploitation plays in sweatshops. And how exploitation ties to what Karl Marx had to say about exploitation. Karl Marx was actually the one who created the marxist criticism, which I thought this would be a good article to quote. Because I know it would have to do something to do with a marxist lens. This was a good article to use because it helped prove that exploitation of the people allowed their to be different classes among the workers and the owners.
- Sweatshops: A Way Out of Poverty. (2014, March 20). Retrieved May 17, 2016, from https://mises.org/library/sweatshops-way-out-poverty This article was an interview between Dr.Powell and Mises Institute about his new book. They asked him a lot of questions about sweatshops and why he thought they helped people. And he responded by saying that their wages are actually very high compared to other jobs in their country. This was useful in showing that people think sweatshops actually have okay wages.
- Liebhold, P., & Rubenstein, H. (1998, July). Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present. Retrieved May 17, 2016, from http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/145 This article focused mainly on seamstress who were forced to work very long hours and were paid very little. This was used as evidence to how the workers were being treated unfairly, and working very long hours. It was a good example because seamstress are usually the ones working in sweatshops.
- M, I. (2014, November 07). British mining companies' exploitation in Sierra Leone. Retrieved May 17, 2016, from https://www.one.org/international/blog/british-mining-companies-exploitation-in-sierra-leone/ This article was talking about how the big companies were exploiting the people and even children of Sierra Leone in the mining of diamonds. This was tied to sweatshops because the people were not being treated fairly or given the amount of money they had earned. This helped proved that sweatshops are a global issue and can happen in different parts of the world.
- Over 29 Million People Enslaved, Says World’s First Global Slavery Index. (n.d.). Retrieved May 17, 2016, from http://www.ecouterre.com/more-than-29-million-people-enslaved-says-worlds-first-global-slavery-index/global-slavery-index-2013-2/ This wasn't really an article because there was no author, and it was more of a picture slideshow. And I got the quote saying about how many people are subjected to modern day slavery. This helped prove that sweatshops are a global issue, not just in one area. This was also good evidence to help people understand the amount of sweatshops workers in the world