Where Sweatshops Are a Dream

Where Sweatshops Are a Dream



Kristof begins his essay by offering giving a tour of the vast garbage dump in Phnom Penh before Barack Obama's speech about ''labor standards'. He gives an explanation about how miasma of toxic stink leaves gasping and how even rats look forlorn. The problem he identifies is that Barack Obama and his team are trying to convince to their audience that Sweatshops are only a symptom of poverty but not a cause. Kristof's purpose in this reading is to explain how sweatshops are being  given a different meaning to the rest of the people. In order to accomplish this purpose, he appeals mainly to ethos. He emphasizes how people have a desire to work in a safer place. He also appeals to this statement by quoting a 19-year-old that said 1''I'd love to get a job in a factory, at least that work is in the shade. Here is it's hot.'' He refutes to people that is against to sweatshops, he refutes to this idea 

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