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...irts to get a fifty cent can of Coke. Legally, the companies should have to pay the workers a reasonable wage. They should be held at fault for under paying their workers. If it were not for them, the companies would not have products to sale. As Jackson mentioned, sweatshops are in the press, and the high-profit retailers do not care about the working conditions of the people who make their products. In the United States, although minimum wage could be a bit higher, we should consider ourselves lucky. The law enforces our employers to pay workers at least minimum wage. Jackson’s essay has bought to my attention that $5.15 an hour is not so bad after all when compared to 16 cents. There are, however, sweatshops in the United States. If the US workers stressed hard enough, they could get better working conditions, but in the other countries, it seems almost impossible because the women and the teenaged girls don’t have a voice, as we as American women and teenagers do. After reading this essay, I can personally say that I will never buy another name brand shirt without feeling guilt. I cannot honestly say that because of the conditions of the people who make the clothes I will not buy them anymore. The conditions of the women who make the clothes would never have been brought to my attention, had I not read this informing essay. It is very sad and unfortunate that retailers are so money hungry and cheap that they cannot pay laborers what it is worth to produce their products. Something should definitely be done abou...