Sweatshops are workplaces with poor working conditions. The works are often not given much, if any, pay, and are left in unsanitary conditions. They work for hours with hardly any rest. Sweatshops often have illegal conditions. People working in sweatshops may feel like machines because they work with no rest and for no other purpose.
A sweatshop actually took place back during the Great Depression! There weren’t much jobs, so women worked in sweatshops where they would make clothing. Although, they got paid just a little where they would only have just a little bit of food once a week. Sometimes they would go weeks without eating! Eventually, since these sweatshops were so small, they started making children work in them! They would drop out around the 4th grade to work in these shops so that they could make enough to bring home food.
Sweatshops were actually very dangerous! Kids would loose their hands and other body parts in these machines. If that was the case, that was that! There really wasn’t medical services. Also there was no conditioning! Since there was a lot of people in a small shop working all day, it was extremely hot! So the conditions were very bad. But the was the only way to make money at the time to survive!
People started to feel like machines because they worked all day every day for such little pay!
