What is a sweatshop?

This all leads to one question.

do we still buy things made with sweatshop labor?

Let’s go back to the shopping activity.

75% OFF

It’s all about the economics.

If the price is right,

You tend to morally disengage*

* to be explained.

Let’s say this happens.(it does)

You are more likely to buy things without considering how it’s made.

Walmart posted record earnings despite economic downturn

But you also tend to morally disengage when you think…

Man, these jeans are

really cute!

Is it like comparing apples and oranges?

Dr. Rohit Reshpande found that moral disengagement is high when sweatshop labor and desirability are both high.

"It's troubling that so much of our social and economic system is based on our moral judgment, especially if it's easy for us to justify our actions based on what we want." – Neeru Paharia

Ralph Lauren

DKNY

Banana Republic

Converse

Levi’s

It’s bad and all, but we still need them, right?

Companies need to cut costs to thrive.

just add $1.80.

To double the pay of a worker for a $100 sports jacket,

People are willing to pay $15 more for sweatshop-free clothes.

Here are few companies that thrive without sweatshop labor.

Toms

American Apparel

Sweatshops fill a necessary labor gap.

Sweatshops actually place people in a cycle of poverty.

¡Vamos a Honduras!

An average worker earns 43 ¢/hour

After daily meals…

transportation…

An average worker is left with 80¢/day

for childcare…

rent…

school…

emergencies…

BUT IT’S NOT IN AMERICA.

Here are few people who disagree.

(Because they worked in one)

John Liu, New York City comptroller

Lucy Liu, actress

Garment workers of Forever 21

How do we let this happen in our own backyards?

The power is literally in your hands.

What are yougoing to do

about it?

Presentation byLiz S. Jang

&

Tony K. Choi

Made for SYEP ’11@ KRC

Feel free to distribute, give credit where it’s due.No copyright infringement intended.

For educational purposes only.This presentation was made relatively sweatshop

labor free.

@tonykchoi

@krcla

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