Sweatshop - "A shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions." Behind every Nike, Adidas, Apple, and Gap product is the work of a man or a woman (or hundreds of men or women). In many cases, these people work numerous hours at very little pay. These men and women may have been working fourteen to eighteen hours per day at a small work station, far away from the few fans in the factory. In certain countries where labor is cheap and workers have no power, such as China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mexico, and India, this cheap labor performs the endless, tedious, and often dangerous work that is performed by machines in more advanced countries. The owners of these factories, however, obtain the financial rewards produced by this oppressed workforce. Therein lies the problem. The people actually doing the work receive low pay that isn't enough to provide for their families and are forced to work in conditions that are often harmful to their health. This problem will only get larger unless the people that buy goods produced by sweatshop labor stand up and fight for the rights of these workers.