Top 10 Worst Sweatshop Made Shoe Brands

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Top 10 Worst Sweatshop Made Shoe Brands

Many types of shoes are made in sweatshops. However, the biggest problem is found with sneakers and athletic shoes.
Most athletic shoes are made in sweatshops in Asian countries.
Child labor is also very common in the shoe industry.

In general, a sweatshop can be described as a workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage or benefits, poor working conditions, and arbitrary discipline, such as verbal and physical abuse. Since sweatshop workers are paid less than their daily expenses, they are never able to save any money to improve their lives. They are trapped in an awful cycle of exploitation.

Defenders of sweatshops often bring up the fact that even though sweatshops are bad, they at least give people jobs they wouldn't have had otherwise. However, the type of jobs sweatshop workers receive are so bad that they rarely improve their economic situation.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) has estimated that 250 million children between the ages of five and fourteen work in developing countries. 61% in Asia, 32% in Africa and 7% in Latin America. Many of these children are forced to work. They are denied an education and a normal childhood. Some are confined and beaten. Some are denied the right to leave the workplace and go home to their families. Some are even abducted and forced to work.

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[mcgregwood7]

Why does life have to suck so much for certain people? I wish I knew the exact origin of every product I bought and whether or not the workers who made it were treated ethically or not. As a consumer, I get little information besides what country made my products. WHAT CAN I DO AS A CONSUMER? I mean it’s hard to find things made in America. I can boycott these shoe companies?

[LyndseyJereen]

@mcgregwood7 Its good that you acknowledge the problem. It doesn’t have to be made in America to be Fair Trade or Sweatshop free. Fair Trade means that you are willing to pay a little more for your product, so that the person on the other end is getting paid and treated fairly. Not everyone can afford to buy everything fair trade, so make a want and needs list. Stuff that you want buy fair trade.

[jennnnyyy123]

You're all idiots. Did you not read the title, description, or text at the beginning of the video? The point of this video was to show which brands of shoes are made in sweatshops, some with conditions worse than others. The creator of this video wasn't judging based on how "fresh" each type of shoe is, although that's the only thing you all care about. Fucking shallow, consumerism-obsessed Americans.

[LyndseyJereen]

@jennnnyyy123 Thank you, I’m glad some people know how to read. Maybe if it looked like everything had been written by a 2 year old they would understand it.

[rightwingliberal1]

@LyndseyJereen You could label it "Ten brands that help people in developing countries." The workers are rational, they work in sweatshops if they are the safest, best paying places in the region. If you make the sweatshops go away, the workers are no better off. Holding companies responsible for working conditions is legitimate but wages far in excess of the local averages increases local prices, causes people to quit other jobs, and fight (literally) to work for Nike et al.

[LyndseyJereen]

@rightwingliberal1 Sweatshops are not safe they are a factory employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions. These people are not quitting their jobs and fighting to work for companies like nike. They work there because there are no other jobs. They don’t want to work in sweatshops they need to in order to provide and take care off their families. And because they don’t make enough money to do that. That’s why children have to work in sweatshops.

[CharIRizarD]

if only these massed produced shoes werent made by machines, then this video would have a point.

[18rubiks]

i wear AKIA and they weren't on this list, so i'm good

[XXBUTCHERXx69]

There was some cool shoes in there like Nike

[TheKeTiz]

I LOVE CONVERSE WTF? THEY ARE THE MOST WEARED SHOES EVAAARRR!!!!!!!!