Sweatshops: Since All Children and Term Paper

Thus it can improve the fates of the sweatshop workers' children, by infusing income into the poorer nation. The argument in favor of the employment of illegal workers in the United States is that the workers chose their lot by illegally immigrating and often work under better conditions than they would on their home soil. Also, the children of the illegal workers will improve if the children are allowed to remain in the United States.

Thus, we cannot always assume that it is automatically wrong for sweatshops to exist, simply because workers do not feel the optimum satisfaction with their lot in life at this present moment in historical time. However, there are still powerful arguments against sweatshops besides immediate worker unhappiness or desire for higher wages and better employment.Having low wage employees legally drives down the cost of labor in the nation as a whole, and thus having foreign companies employ low-cost workers can ultimately be detrimental to the local economy. And illegal workers are not always simply poorly paid, but mistreated because no one knows of their existence other than their immediate family......