Sweatshops and Child Labour | Victims of Sweatshops

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Victims of Sweatshops1
Executive Summary
The paper is a description of the sweatshops and child labour used in garment manufacturing
industries. The study begins by providing a brief outline about Adidas accused of violating
labour laws. Later, the study includes various reasons for using sweatshops by Multinational
Corporations. In addition to this paper includes a recommendation to eliminate the use of
sweatshops in industries.

Victims of Sweatshops2
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Adidas’ history of exploiting labour laws..................................................................................3
Reason behind sweatshop labour...............................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................7
Appendix....................................................................................................................................9

Victims of Sweatshops3
Introduction
A sweatshop is known as the factory or employer organisation that tends to destroy
the right of the workers. According to the Department of labour of the United States, any
organisation or a factory that are found violating labour laws more than two are categorised
under sweatshops. These kinds of organisations tend to employ workers either in contractual
agreements or for providing a final addition to the product (Flanigan, 2018). Sweatshops are
common among the clothing and fashion industry. These companies’ use outsourcing method
and violates labour laws to increase profitability. Adidas has been accused of violating labour
laws and using sweatshops to reduce the cost incurred on employees and increase overall
profits from sales. Therefore, this report highlights the laws violated by companies like
Adidas and the reason behind using sweatshop labour. In this regard, the study tries to
incorporate appropriate recommendation to reduce such violation of labour laws.
Adidas’ history of exploiting labour laws
Adidas is a German-based multinational corporation that manufactures as well as
designs shoes, accessories and garments. It is one of the largest and popular sportswear-
manufacturing organisation in the world. Adidas is well known for its high-quality sports
shoes all around the world and is extensively popular among sportspersons. However, the
leading apparel company has been accused of using sweatshop labours to increase its name
and fame in the world. Before the inception and introduction of this European company in the
top list of producing garments and shoes, it started using child labour with poor working
conditions. The longer work hours and critical techniques involved in the process of making
high-quality Adidas shoes are against the laws of labour rights. The leading sportswear
company has been criticised for operating sweatshops in Indonesia. In addition to this, the
process of outsourcing carries forwarded by Adidas has been subject to penalisation in the
same country as well. Several theories and evidence suggest that large Multinational
Corporations from a manufacturing background uses sweatshop or outsourcing techniques to
reduce labour costs. Outsourcing is one of the attractive section for any MNC like Adidas. As
a result, they tend to employ a large amount of labour with low wages. In the year 2000,
Indonesian workers manufacturing clothes and footwear for Adidas blamed the MNC for
forced labour time, physical humiliation, below minimum wages and abusing behaviour
(theguardian.com, 2000). Several Norn-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) supported the
claim of the workers.