Sweatshop labour

The word "maquila" comes from the Spanish verb "maquilar" which means to assemble. "Maquila ships" are extraterritorial factories, where workers live and work without breaks in the day for long periods. These types of activities are bordering on "new forms of slavery" and constitute flagrant violations of workers, rights and individual human rights.

1. Sweatshops directly violate the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

2. Sweatshop labour is modern slavery.

1. Sweatshop labour provides stable jobs for low-income communities.

1. Inadequate working conditions

1. Unpaid wages
2. Exploitation of child labour
3. Excessive hours of work
4. Denial of the right of trade union association
5. Denial of right of equal pay for equal work
6. Defrauding workers of wages
7. Assassination of trade union leaders

1. Fast fashion

1. Eradicating sweatshops

1. Sweatshops and Third World Living Standards: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?
2. The Bangladesh factory tragedy and the moralists of sweatshop economics
3. 13 Fashion Brands That Still Use Sweatshops in 2021
4. History of Sweatshops: 1880-1940
5. Global apparel production and sweatshop labour: can raising retail prices finance living wages?
6. Global Sweatshop Wage Slavery
7. The Not-So-Hidden Ethical Cost Of Fast Fashion: Sneaky Sweatshops In Our Own Backyard
8. 11 Facts About Sweatshops
9. FAQs about the Sweatshop Problem
10. No Sweat: Fighting Sweatshop Labour
11. International Labor Rights Forum
12. Fair Trade & Sweatfree
13. UN Global Compact