Lutz's+Research+Abstract

Thesis: Consumers must counter the sweatshops by boycotting their products and buying goods from those companies that don't exploit their members.

When presented with the research assignment I really didn't know what I should write about. It was just the fact that you had to research a topic, you had to make it persuasive. This made things a little more difficult because I had to find a topic that i could write a lot about and also have a position on that topic. I started brainstorming ideas onto a piece of paper but I just couldn't find a topic that I was going to be able to find enough info to write 8 pages worth. So I remembered the journal that we had read previously in the class about how to find a good research topic. The first step the journal recognized was that the topic you choose should be something you enjoy and are interested in so that you will want to do the paper. So I started thinking about topics of interests. I finally thought about the paper I wrote last year on sweatshops and how I could do my paper on that.

Overall my paper is about informing people what sweatshops are, how they came about, mistreatment of workers and a way that we can stop them. The first part of my paper, I gave some background on how sweatshops even came to be what they are today. When the days of the monopolies and unions came to an end many companies went to third world countries to find cheap labor. These people were unaware of their human rights and would do anything for money. This is how sweatshops were formed. Companies go to other countries and take advantage of unknowing people. Secondly, I went into talking about the conditions and mistreatment workers go through. Some examples of starvation, filthy working stations, no bathroom breaks, etc. The list goes on.

The half of my paper was talking about what people are doing and what people need to do to help rid the world of these terrible sweatshops. I gave a list of companies that do use sweatshops and companies that don't use them. The list for the use of sweatshops was astonishing. Every company that I shop at for clothes was on the list, and that kind of gives you a bad feeling in you stomach to know that all these years you have contributed to this terrible cause. I also gave examples of people and what they have done to make a movement against sweatshops. All in all writing this paper was a great experiance and it really made me appreciate my life a whole lot more.