History is taught so that we can learn from the mistakes of the past and prevent them from happening again. The Industrial Revolution was a horrible time for working class people. The Industrial Revolution brought pain, suffering and death to large numbers of people, yet today's economists have not learned their lesson. Sweatshops are the modern version of factories during the Industrial Revolution. Sweatshops and Industrial Revolution factories share many similarities both in how they operate and in the owners who run them. Both structures impose poor working conditions and unfair wages, employ children too young to handle the pace of work that employers expect, and the factories are owned by economists who must find faulty reasoning to justify their bad conduct. During the Industrial Revolution workers were treated horribly. . Workers were slaves to their jobs from start to finish with little or no breaks in dangerous working conditions where accidents were common. When it was time to go home, workers returned to the cramped quarters usually inhabited by three or more families at once. And for their labor, workers were rewarded with pay sufficient only for food and shelter, leaving them with little money, sometimes none at all. Unbeknownst to many consumers, hundreds of American companies, from Walmart to Nike and even Toys'R'Us, are showing their support for sweatshops in third world countries and their poor working conditions by continuing to purchase products from them and ignoring shady controls used to hide the truths. In these sweatshops that companies so easily overlook, there are poor working and living environments that are unimaginable to those who are protected from the risk of facing bankruptcy... middle of paper... Its peoples (Fourth ed ., pp 619-641). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.Embar, W. (2004). Sweatshops and child labor. In vegan peace. Retrieved June 5, 2011, from http://www.veganpeace.com/sweatshops/sweatshops_and_child_labor.htmKrugman, P. (n.d.). Praise for cheap labor. In sad science. Retrieved June 13, 2011, from http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/smokey.html#BioMyerson, A. R. (1997, June 22). In principle, this is the case with multiple “exploiters”. In The New York Times. Retrieved June 13, 2011, from http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/22/weekinreview/in-principle-a-case-for-more-sweatshops.html?src=pmPowell, B., & Skarbek, DB (September 27, 2004). Sweatshops and Third World living standards: Are the jobs worth the sweat? . In the Independent Institute. Retrieved June 5, 2011, from http://www.independent.org/publications/working_papers/article.asp?id=1369