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Sweatshops lack labor rights for the workers, unsafe working conditions, and low wages where women and children are working long hours to not lose their pay. This is because of the lack of labor availability which leads to people having to go to these sweatshops and fuel these sweatshops with workers. Worker, Immigrant,Government, Company

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Social media is one of the main causes for sweatshops, people see these cool jackets their favorite influencer is wearing on TikTok or on Instagram, Youtube, the list goes on. These influencers know what they are doing and often link the cheap product in their description. Then viewers buy the cheap clothes that the sweatshops can produce for so cheap and keep workers working on low wages to maximize profit margins. Worker, Company, Influencer, Shopper

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Is Social Media Telling You What To Do? - Chrisanne Grise
Sweatshops:This is absolutely horrible. -  Jake Tran
The IB Book,Globalization:Page 6-15
Understand Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth   (Primary) - Participate
https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal8

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The idea of sweatshops relates to SDG 8, Decent Work and Economic Growth. This SDG works toward growth in the economy by having good jobs, sweatshops are also never considered a "decent work" or "decent job". This relates to sweatshops by the fact that sweatshops are slightly helping to grow the economy from the cheap products and cheap clothing but is also blatantly not a decent job, the minimum wage in California is currently $15 an hour and people are being paid 3 cents a product, they'd have to make 500 products an hour just to reach that minimum wage threshold. In the end, this SDG reflects on people being safe in the workplace with the ability to sustain themselves and the ability to be able to accept safe workplace jobs with decent pay.

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The people who work in sweatshops are working long hours in unsafe conditions and have to work as quickly as possible to only get at least $0.03 per piece that they had made in the hours of about 12 hours while more of the profit is going to the owners. Again this is taken advantage of for companies making products in sweatshops to get the max profit and sell cheaper items. This is also taken advantage of by the actual sweatshop as they could easily pay each worker more but decide not to to make easy money instead of doing it an ethical way. Shopper, Worker, Company

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While workers were being forced to go to work, workers would get threatened to get a months pay which the workers desperately needed the money even though the pay was very little while working for the sweatshops, this is because the sweatshops can't afford to lose a days profit and the fact that the illegal immigrants are living day to day on terrible conditions and can't afford to get caught or lose a days pay. If illegal immigrants weren't desperate for jobs sweatshops would practically be wiped out of existence, based on the fact that there are good jobs. Workers

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Immigrants don't have the money to pay off, they work in sweatshops while stores get to keep their margins. Although, many illegal immigrants produce clothing for cheap other than legal factories, but getting forced to work and not having anywhere to go because of the risk or getting deported.People who illegally immigrate here can't report these ultra-fast fashion companies because then the US can tell they don't have a citizenship and will immediately be deported or put into jail for illegal immigration, the companies know this and take a huge advantage over them. Workers, Immigrants, Government, Shopper, Company

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Inside the sweatshops it only gets worse because of how unethical the sweatshops are. Inside the sweatshops people are locked in so they can't leave even in case of an emergency or in the case that something goes wrong. The main people working there are the women and children inside the factory who have futures ahead of them they can't fulfill since they could be trapped inside a collapsing building. For example, in a factory in the US they had locked the doors and many young women had died inside the factory because of a fire that had broke out. This effects the workers because they are risking their lives for such a low pay.

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Sweatshops have such low wages and pay that they want to maximize their profit, because of this the sweatshops have very unsafe working conditions and they force workers back to unsafe working conditions. For example, in Bangladesh the Rana Plaza factory collapsed and over 1000 people were killed, while 2500 people were injured, this happened a day after safety inspectors had deemed the place unsafe and had forbid anyone back. This effects the company, worker, and the shopper since the workers died, the company can't produce more items, and the shopper can't get more items.

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People are also tossing away jeans, the thing they don't see is how inefficient sweatshops are with their water. Jeans and denim fill these landfills and these textiles are wasting a ton of water. For example, one pair of jeans made is equivalent to 2000 gallons of water. This is enough water to drink for a whole year. This effects the environment's natural resources greatly in a blatant negative way.

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Fast fashion is designed to be made as quickly and cheaply as possible which also means that workers are having to design clothing quickly and cheaply for stores to capitalize on trends that last for a short time while making more and more clothing that people would want and is on trend for low prices, this clothing is provided by the sweatshops that are run either illegally locally or across borders. Workers, Company

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The environmental problems don't just end there, on average every piece of clothing is only worn 7 times.  This means tons and tons of clothes are thrown away every year from the sheer amount of clothes bought. For example, every year over 24 billion pounds of clothes are thrown away every year. This negatively affects the environment at an alarming rate.

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Sweatshops also have a very negative environmental impact on the air and water around them. For example, the sweatshop/clothing industry is one of the top air polluters polluting about 10% of all greenhouse emissions. For example, in China since they had been dying the clothes red eventually one of their rivers or water supplies had turned red from the dye. This has effected the environment greatly.

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Because of sweatshops, companies have started outsourcing manufacturing to maximize the profit of their sales. For example, many companies make clothing in places with low labor costs and cheap wages to maximize their profit. These are places like Vietnam, India, China, etc. The people who are affected in this are the workers and the company.