by American consumers have often been found guilty of
violating workers` rights. Workers are often overworked and
underpaid. Countless factories that make products for major
American corporations use sweat-shop like labor. The most
common factories that use sweat-shop like labor tend to be in
the textile and toy industries. These products are usually
manufactured in poorer more developing areas than other
products. Workers and the countries outsourced to have also
been intimidated and there have been instances where union
leaders have been killed. In their efforts to increase profits,
businesses are hurting people all over the world (Shah 2006).
The desire to gain maximum profits has caused American
businesses to do away with traditional engineering that
involves each step of product development from invention to
production. Now the primary goal of American business
executives is to make as much money as possible (McCormack
2009).
American business executives try to persuade us of the
benefits of offshore outsourcing. They explain it from a onesided view and set up misleading studies in order to popularize
the idea. But, these executives are the ones who do benefit
from offshore outsourcing. The increases in company profits