Scholarly Sources

 In my three scholarly sources, I have learned just how drastic the issue about the sweatshop industry is. The sweatshop industry continues to grow and is becoming very popular, especially among the developing countries and lower income families, but they are doing more harm than good. Lower income families rely on the sweatshops because that is their only source of income and way for keeping them alive. Despite the sweatshop industry having very poor working conditions, they are still making their profit due to the people that need a job, even if it a below minimum wage job and the exceptionally poor working conditions. What is very surprising to me about the sweatshops is the amount of people that actually have to rely on the sweatshops for their monthly income and the fact that the owners, as well as the managers in the sweatshops take huge advantage of their employees so that they can make their profit.
   From my three sources, they all discussed their concern for the youth that are forced into the working field so soon and how the community should be focusing on their exploitation of children rather than pulling them out of the working field altogether. The biggest debate in all three of my articles is that sweatshop industries are like any other business owners; they just care about the profits that they make rather than the condition of their workers.The use of sweatshops are exploiting workers like any other business, but in a more unnerving and immoral way.
   Although I have found several sources of information about my topic, my research still lacks the definition of what exactly a sweatshop is and the stand point about the abuse of child labor laws. I need to gather some more scholarly sources and maybe even some statistics about the growing sweatshop industry to help me gain some more information about my topic.