The History of Sweatshops

Sweatshops began in 1830 and were huge for twenty years. Back in the early 1800’s work conditions were not the best anyway, they were cramped and tight but when the usage of sweatshops were beginning to arise, they were put into terrible work areas and forced to work unlike before when it was an option. Their pay began to be called starvation wages. After the 1850’s all the way till the beginning of the 1900’s the usage of sweatshops were growing and especially in rural areas. In 1994 people in the U.S were still finding there were thousands of sweatshops after they had been banned.  Eventually they started using them in third world countries and the owners would trick the workers into it, so they didn’t sign a contract. Therefore they would have to work long hours with little pay, people would even be put in these sweatshops for debt bondage.