The Fact Monster
Forced labor, and sweatshops still exist in the United States
Many major clothing corporations use sweatshops, but do not admit to it
Some of the people who are forced to work for sweatshops make as little as $5.00 a week
Workers in sweatshops work as long as 12 hours in one day
Kids are kidnapped from the streets all over the world and forced to work, sometimes at gun-point, for long hours in sweatshops
Restavic is what a child slave in Haiti is called
Restavics are punished with a beating, and if the supervisor does not want to beat the child, they can take the child to a police station for a beating. At a police station they are beaten to death.