Current Affairs • Sep 23, 2025
No, Sweatshops Do Not Help the Poor
In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman named Tureza Akter committed suicide after facing repeated abuse at a sweatshop in Jordan. Subsequent investigations found that factory managers withheld employees’ passports to prevent them from leaving, forced female employees to strip naked, and required workers to labor 16 hours a day, seven days a week, threatening to withhold already-earned pay if they did not comply. The clothes produced in this factory bore the logos of Under Armour, Columbia, and American Eagle.