Week4 Santas Sweatshop

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For the sweatshop employees, this meager income is what they depend on. In order not to cause a lot of unemployment, from the perspective of consumers, choose a socially responsible brand like Levis when shopping is needed. For the company's performance, they will also create a more socially responsible corporate culture.
As the author of the article "Santas Sweatshop" mentioned, Levis refuses to produce in places where human rights are not guaranteed.
However, only through the "supervision" of "ethical consumption" is not enough. Some of the brands with a large number of propaganda teams can even reverse the initiative to create a brand image. But for labor and human rights groups, they may not really solve their problems. Although it has indeed given a large amount of public opinion pressure to large-scale brands after combining the support of consumers in the first world countries, consumers and human rights organizations against sweatshops are unable to reach out and organize third-world workers. When sweatshop brands and products are more and more, consumers often only choose to ignore sweatshops，and choose a more favorable price.  The fast-fashion brands such as Zara and H.M prove this.

Q：Is the family workshop a kind of sweatshop?