Would it he better if those people had no jobs at all?
costs and standards of living are very different over in those countries. There are places were a few dollars is a living wage.
Many have no jobs so those who do get work is a blessing for their families. The clothing mills pay more than many other jobs.
They get labor grateful to have jobs and we get clothing that low income people can afford.
If the clothing did not come here, it would be sold elsewhere in the world.
Yes it would be nice for their wages to be higher and their work conditions to be better, but there is no shortage of people willing to take those jobs at any price.
We might want to turn our noses up and clothes made in those mills but most of the world will not. Without companies bringing them jobs, they would be far worse off and many of the younger women would turn to sex industries.
There are groups trying to take women that seek to leave sex workers and give them jobs from clothing to jewellery to local crafts sold world wide. Some also help with education and health care.
Some of those are countries that used to kill girls because they had no value to the family as workers. Now they might bring home more than working in the fields with their family or preparing what little food might be brought home.
We can condemn such work, but most of the workers are grateful for it.
