... Are Sweatshops Good?
Blog Post 5 Close your eyes and describe the image that appears in your head when you hear the word sweatshop. In my head I can imagine an overcrowded room, people lined up next to each other all using a machine to complete their work. In this room I picture loud noises coming from every corner of the room, the machine noises never stop. The looks on people’s faces all look really tired. You would think that every single person lined up at a sweatshop machine would feel nothing but absolute hatred for this job. However, some people can’t believe how lucky they are to have ended up working at this sweatshop. At least this is what Nicholas D. Kristof argues in his essay, “Where Sweatshops are a Dream”. Kristof puts together an essay that makes you question whether sweatshops might actually “help” people. Kristof’s purpose in writing this essay was to try to give insight to Barack Obama and his team, along with any other person who comes across this text, as to why fixing l