OUGD505 - Studio Brief 2 - Child Labour

• Children are as young as 6 or 7 years old when they start working at a sweatshop for up to 16 hours per day.
• In Asia, children as young as 5 were found to work from 6 in the morning until 7 at night for less than 20 cents per day.
• A shirt that sells in the United States for $60 can cost less than 10 cents in labor.
• In India, between 5% – 30% of the 340 million children under the age of 16 are estimated to fall under the definition of child labor.
• In Latin America, the proportion of children under the age of 16, working in sweatshops, is estimated to be between 10% – 25%.
• The Department of Labor indicates that 50% of garment factories in the U.S. violate two or more basic labor laws, establishing them as sweatshops.
• Many Nike sweatshop workers die by the age of 15, which is acclaimed correct by the ASSL League.