Dictionary
Abolish- The act of getting rid of slavery.
I want to abolish
slavery from sweatshops, because slavery is bad.
Activist- One who is fighting for change.
The activist
that spoke to us in social studies wanted to get rid of slavery.
Alex- A Quest senior; Genius; Webdesigner of K.O. Slavery.
Did you see the excellent website Alex
created the other day?
Anit-Slavery- Being against slavery.
I visited the Anti-Slavery
website, and learned about slavery in the chocolate industries.
Boycott- To refuse to buy from a company or store, until they change for your cause.
Groups of people in New York were boycotting
GAP, until they stopped using sweatshops.
Child Labor Laws- Laws that prevent companies from using children under a certain age for dangerous jobs, and keeps companies from hiring children under a certain age.
Disclose- To make known.
Nike needs to disclose
the location of its sweatshops.
Forced labor- Forcing a person to work for little or no money.
Most children who suffer forced labor
were either kidnapped or sold to sweatshops by their parents.
Human Trafficking- The act of selling and trading people like a piece of property.
Human trafficking
still happens in Third World countries, where the people do not have much money.
Inhumane- Lack of pity and compassion.
Supervisors in sweatshops are very inhumane
towards the sweatshop's workers.
Living Wage-The act of giving workers enough money to support themselves and their families.
We wrote letters to Nike to persuade them to give sweatshop workers living wage
Minimum Wage-The smallest amount of money that a company must at least pay their workers.
Sweatshop workers do not get paid minimum wage
, this keeps them in poverty.
Oppression- An act of hardship or injustice; cruelty.
The slaves in sweatshops are being oppressed
, they do not have any freedom.
Overpopulation- The idea of the number of people increasing so much, that it will eventually crowd the earth.
It is believed that overpopulation
contributes to slavery because something must be done with extra people.
Poverty- A condition where people do not have money, or not enough money to support themselves and their families.
Sweatshop workers are kept in poverty
because the sweatshop owners do not pay them enough.
Protest- To disapprove of.
My friends and I protested
against hazardous conditions in sweatshops.
Restavec- A slave that is from Haiti.
The Restavecs
in Haiti suffer major mental and physical abuse.
Sanitary- A clean and healthy working or living environment.
The sweatshop working conditions are not sanitary
, they need to be cleaned up.
Slave-A slave is one who is forced to work, and in an environment with mental or physical threat. They are owned or controlled by another person. They are bought and sold as property and treated that way. They physically constrained or have restrictions on freedom and movement.
The slave
was forced to stitch 30 pairs of jeans before she could leave.
Supervisor- A person who watches the employees.
A supervisor
in a sweatshop usually abuses the employees.
Sweatshop-A place where a person is forced to work for little or no pay. The working environment is hazardous, and the workers are treated like property, are mentally and physically abused, and live in fear.
The sweatshop
had hazardous conditions, and people kept getting injured.
Third World Country- Developing nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin American.
Third World Countries
have the highest number of slaves and sweatshops.
Union- A group of people with the same or similar jobs working to make their work conditions better.
Website- A form of communication and information; An electronic "page" posted on the internet.
I went online and visited several websites
.
