Article 1 facts by Elvis Guerra https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78 think and write down 3 facts you have found interesting/surprising/or just want to put down en-us 2022-02-02 17:51:54 UTC 2025-10-28 19:11:52 UTC hello@padlet.com These offshore assembly plants, or maquiladoras, sew the cut cloth that is provided by US manufacturers and retailers.Cheap labor by young women is abundant in Mexico, and this model of maquila production has spread from apparel to the assembly of shoes, electronics, auto parts, white goods (major household appliances), data processing, and many other products and services. https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108024992 2022-03-22 17:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108024992 The first form of a union was in the early 1900's (Named international garment workers). And the first law passed protecting the workers was in 1938 (Fair labor standards act). And in mexico predominantly there are young women working in sweatshops. -Tenzin 111004544 https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108027071 2022-03-22 17:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108027071 https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108029906 "The new technologies of production that enabled the mechanization of clothing production in the 1860s also accelerated the process of sweated work." There have been many strikes about the poor working conditions people are going through, who are mostly women. ]]> 2022-03-22 17:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108029906 111004616 https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108032281 The union's first strike was staged in 1909 by 20,000 shirtwaist makers, who were mostly women and children. - Held by the ILGWS
According to scholars Evelyn Blumenberg and Paul Ong, although blacks made up about 28 percent of the garment labor force in 1990 in North Carolina
Sweatshop jobs are heavily feminized - Omar
 ]]> 2022-03-22 17:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108032281 outsourcing is a large benefit to the company- katie https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108033670 2022-03-22 17:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108033670 1) Women in 1900 formed the l Ladies' Garment Workers' Union to protest the unfair treatment of women workers in shops 2) Sweatshops prefer women workers over men so they can pay them less 3) the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City that killed 146 garment workers, most of whom were immigrant women. - Chris & Shekina https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108034978 2022-03-22 17:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108034978 https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108039629 1. As in the past, immigrants and women are regarded as the cheapest and most exploitable workers.
2. Sweatshop jobs are feminized because they pay less than a living wage, and this sex-typing works alongside the naturalization of the actual skills required for work. 
3. The new technologies of production that enabled the mechanization of clothing production in the 1860s also accelerated the process of sweated work.]]> 2022-03-22 17:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/111004483/u5jekyxle2km8c78/wish/2108039629