Joshua Ronen
11/3/09
Writing in the New Media
Marc Bousquet
3:40 PM- T/TR
Research Hypertext Proposal
The one topic that struck me the most of the ones that I could choose from with reference to the class website was the manufacturing of college apparel and how unfairly workers are treated in their respective working establishments while making those clothes. (http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3139). The article, “College Campaign Against Sweatshop Apparel Claims Victory” states “Students working to end abuses of workers’ rights in the factories that make their school apparel won a victory in California last Friday [5/2/06] after months of escalating protest. The University of California system announced it will join eighteen other schools nationwide in implementing a "designated supplier" program. Students had waged sit-ins at multiple state schools – actions they credit with helping to win force university officials’ hand.” Moves have already been made to conquer this widespread issue. Sure, all the college apparel may look so appetizing with the intricate designs, logos, and statements, but do you really know how these clothes were made? What about the people who made them? Did they enjoy coming to work every morning? Did they have an easy life in the workplace. The answer started out as “no,” but significant strides were made to fix what needed to be fixed. Even today there are sweatshops in the USA that manufacture college apparel and treat their employees unfairly. Although we have progressed in time, problems in the work place still linger. Sweatshop labor in college apparel is a rampant issue in the United States. But, these college apparel manufacturers need to make their money. They think with their wallets and not their minds. There are thousands upon thousands of universities all across this country and every company needs to make its monthly quota. But, if it doesn’t, its the employees the suffer the consequences (something that is clearly unjust and should not happen under any circumstances whatsoever).
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