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Sweatshop Company Accountability Holding companies who use sweatshop labor accountableIn the poorer nations of the world, sweatshops abound. Many are dirty, dangerous, overcrowded and valentino handbags sale oppressive places that sometimes don't even pay their labor force and follow no safety or environmental standards whatsoever. These places can be violent in the manner in how the workers are treated with long hours (16 to 18 hours a day), few or no breaks, no days off, threats, intimidation, beatings, torture and even executions. They also use slaves and child labor in contravention to international agreements. Most, but not exclusively, these shops are found "offshore" where there are no unions, labor legislation and law or environmental standards. Within their countries where few standards exist, they are for the moment, completely legal. All waste from manufacture, no mater how toxic, is simply dumped into the shanty towns that surround the factories, into the aquifers, into the air and the land. Company heads and profit making ventures in a bid to cut costs, have to do away with unions and any other factor that costs and cuts into profits. Where this can't be done at home, then they simply close shop, lay off the entire work force and relocate where expenses are fewer and profit potential in ledgers are much higher. If costs are low enough, it may even be cheaper to ship raw resources halfway around the world have them converted into commodities by extremely cheap labor and then ship these back half way around the world for sale in a domestic market cheaper than if they were made at home. This single fact demonstrates a complete lack of concern about the environment due to such a heavy carbon footprint. Despite all of this movement involving shipping back and forth, such companies still turn a profit. What does this say about "offshore" conditions as a result? What is our responsibility at home? How can we solve this huge gap?

First let us look at some examples. In India, a burgeoning telemarketing workforce is emerging to manage credit accounts for all kinds of business including cell phones and internet servers. These workers are often paid 100 rupees a month, far less than the several hundred a month corporations have to pay onshore. The rupee conversion of this amount to US currency amounts to about a dollar and 50 cents. As a result, telemarketing jobs went offshore and unemployment resulted at home. Also in India, child labor abounds where children are forced to manufacture stuffed animals, tourist trinkets, holiday themed commodities and other items. Sometimes children work as slaves and have to fend for themselves after work. They are recruited off the streets from among the desperately poor and the homeless with promises of wealth and an escape from misery only to find valentino handbags a new misery. Worldwide there are tens of millions still working as slaves.

China is another region, especially where western business interests have invested and set up shop, tens of millions are employed in furniture making, holiday trinkets, cheap electronics, clothing and other items. Within the confines of the Chinese Communist protectorate, these businesses are allowed to flourish as they promote international trade and help in controlling the Chinese regime. Chinese workers in these factories have a few more rights than their Indian counterparts, but they still work in filthy conditions and toxic environments valentino bags where there are no environmental controls. China has a problem with local global dimming and brown clouds. The problem of the pollution surfaced during the 2008 Beijing Olympics for the world to see. The rate of economic expansion with unregulated environmental controls has created a huge local problem.

The Rio Grande River that separates Texas from Mexico demarcates two worlds. On the Texas side, where people attempt to escape into the US, the living standard is high. On the Mexican side there is squalor and pollution everywhere. Yet there are huge factories making parts for cars and appliances that are part of the NAFTA free trade agreement. Surrounding these are sprawling shanty towns wallowing in factory pollution and raw sewage. People here do jobs formerly done in the US that were shipped south of the Rio Grande in order to cut labor costs and avoid strict environmental standards that exist in the US. The heavy pollution is just across the Rio Grande, drifting across into the US and does not respect such fictitious boundaries as a narrow river. Even though the Mexicans have jobs here, they still wanted to escape north in order to find a menial job at better pay.