Sweatshops Are A No

I absolutely do not approve of sweatshops. I believe they take away basic freedom rights and are something that needs to be stopped. Unfortunately the situation is not justblack and white. I do not approve of sweatshops and in an ideal world sweatshops would not exist or at least people would speak out against them. But we live in reality, and in reality sweatshops are a neccessary evil. the only thing that is good about sweatshops, and when I say good I don't actually mean good, but the best of the situation is they keep a small percentage of children out of prostitution.
Before this class I never looked at sweatshops from the people working in it. I understand that sweatshops are the only jobs that provide them with money, but working in a sweatshop the worker has no rights.
Horrible events happen in sweatshops, in American and other places in the world. It is estimated that 4,500 of the 7,000 factories in New York are sweatshops (Hearts & Mind, 1).
I do thinkn it is possible to end sweatshops, but it is going to take consumers to make the first step. For me in the end it comes down to how much I value the lives of the people working in sweatshops. I think it is worth paying thirty , fourty, or any amount more for a pair of jeans or whatever in order that someones life is saved. I think there is something wrong when a worker gets paid 69 cents an hour and it locked in an apartment with razor wire (Heart & Mind, 1). IT IS WRONG!
I think that sweatshops are wrong, but i also understand why they are being used. I wish people would rise up and not only fight sweatshops, but find a solution to getting the people good jobs. There is nothing more precious than a life, to me it is the most sacred gift God can give a person other than salvation. But as it seems now, sweatshops are a "Catch 22" as a fellow student in my CSR 231 class said.