BIOLOGY 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: International Labour Organization, Sweatshop, Global Exchange

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOLOGY 1A03
• Professor: Alastair Tracey

Document Summary

The international labour organization has estimated more than 215 children worldwide working as child labourers in sweatshops ("international. Many people, especially young children and women are going through that every single day. They go through verbal, physical and sexual abuse by their managers in sweatshops, which also impact them mentally. Sweatshops are the places where your shoes, clothes, rugs, toys, chocolates, bananas, coffees and other everyday necessities come from. Almost everything we use during our daily lives may have been made in sweatshops, somewhere halfway across the world. I spend all day on my feet, working with hot vapor that usually burns my skin, and by the end of the day my arms and shoulders are in pain, a mexican worker, alvaro. That translates to more than a piece every minute. The quota is so high that we cannot even go to the bathroom or drink water or anything for the whole day. ( global exchange )