Globalization is basically the attempt to globalize things and expand products and businesses across the seas to countries around the world. It can also be classified as the process of creating languages, services and products that apply not only to a particular neighborhood, city or country, but to the entire world. Canadians have benefited from many of the benefits that globalization has brought to their lives, including the availability of products and services from around the world. However, at the same time, on the other side of the world, this situation has had many pessimistic or negative effects on workers in developing countries. As globalization began to gain momentum, the number of sweatshops also increased dramatically and its effects were most certainly detrimental in many ways to the individuals they employed; mainly women and children. Of all the industries that have globalized, the textile and clothing industries are among the most important. The textile and clothing industries are one of the largest sources of industrial employment in the world. In virtually every country in the world, clothing is produced but sold elsewhere. Around 30 million people make clothing and textiles around the world and of these thirty million, most are women. Around the world, women and children are suffering because of the introduction of sweatshops, low wages, unsafe working environments, free trade zones, foreign control, subcontracting and violations of human and workers' rights. Historically, the word “sweatshop” finds its origins in the industrial world. Revolution to describe a subcontracting system in which middlemen earned profits on the margin between the amount they received for a contract and the amount they paid workers. Today, a sweatshop is defined by the government as any business or factory that violates one or more federal or provincial labor laws such as: minimum wage and overtime, child labor, industrial duties, occupational health and safety, workers' compensation, or industry registration. Originally, when the clothing industry went global, it was all about the positive effects it had on the developing countries where the factories were located and all the jobs it created for those who once didn't could never imagine being paid to work. began to show more of its negative effects on the lives of individuals in developing countries, it became more evident that due to this globalization, people from every continent and territory have been exposed and forced to consume a northern culture -American..