Sweatshops

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Sweatshops

• Workers Between a Rock and a Hard Place from
  1820-Present.
• A History of American Sweatshops

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Section 1 1820-1880
Questions from students Why were girls use for
sewing and for all other work more than
man? Facts found by students Women worked sewing
a lot of hours and did not get paid if the owner
just said NO. The life from the 1820s to the
1880s was that people had to work up to 16 hours
a day and paid low money. Managers used more
girls than boys to work.
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Section 1 1820-1880

• Facts
• Paid by the piece, seamstresses worked 16 hours a
  day during the busiest seasons, but their income
  rarely exceeded bare subsistence.
• It is against the law to put children to work.
  Why are children working?

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Section 2 1880-1940
Facts In the 1870s The Cigarmakers
International Union of America started the
earliest anti sweatshop campaign. The
African-Americans were exploited in the
Industrial Revolution. In 1880 more than 26
million people came to the United States. More
Immigrants means more sweatshops. There were
Singer sewing machines in the 1880s.
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Section 2 1880-1940
Facts Somebody said, The streets werent paved
with gold they werent paid at all. The
African-Americans were exploited in the clothing
industries.
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Section 3 1940-1997
Facts As in the earliest times, current American
sweatshops tend to hire immigrant workers, legal
or illegal. Immigrants come seeking work and are
primary women that become easy prey for numerous
employers.
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Section 3 1940-1997
Facts A sign reads, Dont Buy Imported Men and
Boys Clothing, Save an American Workers
Job Levis Clothing Company closed its last
company in San Antonio to take it to another part
of the world to pay less money to workers. There
are more women than man found in sweatshops,
because they know how to do a job over and over
for many hours.