Who's Involved ??

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Who Is Involved?

This issue affects families and homegrown business because of huge companies that take away from natural resources, quality of products and prices. Also having factories based in third world countries and producing products with cheap Labor leave smaller and local business high and dry. Families might be running into problems like paying bills, giving their kids’ education, keeping up with demands from society's culture, Being able to work on their own terms and being exposed to situations and not having the experience to understand what should be done. Major companies like Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, and Gap affect workers at factories in assembly lines and workers in department stores by not giving them proper training, equipment and more than eight hours.

Some countries that have a factory based in their cities or coummities are:

-          China

-          Vietnam

-          Indonesia

-          Mexico

-          India

-          Philippine

-          Ivory coast

-          New York

-          Nevada

Stores that have or had sweatshops, cheap labour, and unhealthy environment

(Physically & mentally) problems are:

-          Abercrombie and Fitch

-          Gymboree

-          Hanes

-          Ikea

-          Kohl’s

-          LL Bean

-          Pier 1 imports

-          Nike

-          Wal-Mart

-          Calvin Klein

-          Jones apparel

-          Liz Claiborne

-          Tommy Hilfiger

-          Gap

-          Disney

Created by Shariya Shammeed