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Sweatshop, the word itself conjures up ideas of children toiling away for endless hours for endless pay, but that is in foreign countries far away from us. It is easy to not think about the fates of others. I started reading about sweatshops for this essay and was appalled by what I read. Girls as young as fourteen working seventy hours a week for less than a dollar an hour. Limited to only two bathroom brakes a day and docked a days pay for every visit thereafter. Management forcing employees to take pregnancy tests and firing the positive test takers. Sexual harassment, racism, and poor working conditions all things that could be easily controlled. I think that companies who subcontract goods from sweatshops should be boycotted because of the racism, the sexual harassment, the poor working conditions, the substandard pay, the exploitation of children, and to tell evil corporations that we simply do not agree with what they are doing. This boycotting of companies may already be working, according to Rachel Shabi, writer for New Statesmen magazine “Gap feeling the heat from anti-sweatshop campaigns? The clothes chain's announcement a few weeks ago of a 68 per