Although sweatshops may seem like a terribly harsh thing, there are many reasons that sweatshops are essential and necessary in the world we live in today. The advantages of having sweatshops outweigh the disadvantages, which is why they continue to exist and expand. Sweatshops benefit both the developing countries they are present with, along with the developed countries, which the products are sent to.
The workers in the factories wouldn't support the factories being shut down because many of them agree that the sweatshop jobs are much better than their alternative jobs. An example is a man named Felipe Romero who works in a sweatshop for an apparel manufacturer in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He said that the job positively impacted the way he lives, and even though there are many things about his job that he would change, he still highly prefers it to what he was doing before. He also claimed that if the Americans were to shut the factory down, then he would have to go back to doing the things he did in the past that he's not proud of. Other alternative jobs in developing countries often include subsistence farming, stone-working, janitorial work and prostitution, all of which are worse or more degrading than working in a sweatshop. Subsistence farming is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and 59% of people in Vietnam are self-employed farmers.
It is unreasonable to demand the same level of standards in countries such as China and Bangladesh as there are in Canada and America. The laws in those countries are different, so it makes sense for the multinational companies to take advantage of their lower standards, so they can make a higher profit. Despite this being seen as unethical, it is bound to happen, and cannot be avoided until the developed countries change their own laws. It most likely is not possible to have these sweatshops monitored so that violations are limited, because the multinational companies will have to invest a lot more money into this, which they probably are not willing to do due to their greed. They would have to hire several employees to look after the sweatshops to make sure they are safe and to see if the employees are being well treated. There are still a lot of possible flaws to this, one being the employees may not be honest and might not care and might not report any violations. The best way to monitor them would be if someone within the MNC of high authority (such as the C. E. O) did regular random check-ins in every single one of their sweatshops. This is illogical, as people of such high authority likely will not have time to regularly go to countries such as China and to every sweatshop. Due to the size of MNC's they often are not able to know everything going on in each of their factories.
Sweatshops are also very beneficial to developed countries, such as Canada and the U. S. as well. Although developed countries seem prosperous, they still have a population of people living in pover...
