Outsourcing, China, and Wal-Mart
“Outsourcing, China and Wal-Mart”
Wal-Mart, an American corporation boasting “Everyday Low Prices” has expanded and outsourced to include the employment of foreign labor and suppliers to meet their corporation’s demands. In doing this, there are several benefits to utilizing cheap Chinese labor. By using Chinese factory labor, the Wal-Mart Corporation is able to provide goods at low prices, increasing their appeal to the consumer. Also, by using cheap labor in other countries, Wal-Mart expands their corporation worldwide, including opening stores in those countries where the company employs cheap, foreign labor. By using Chinese labor, Wal-Mart is able to maximize its corporation’s profits overseas to the United States, where the price range is much higher. In addition, Wal-Mart’s use of foreign labor benefits the poor, foreign countries, such as China, who seek overseas companies to provide jobs and increase their countries’ capita of export. While there are a number of benefits to utilizing Chinese labor, there are numerous amounts of drawbacks. The consumers of Wal-Mart do not approve of the exploitation of the cheap foreign labor, as the conditions and reality of the factory worker’s’ employment and treatment by the factories that produce goods for Wal-Mart are brought to the public’s eye. Also, Wal-Mart, in utilizing Chinese labor, has outsourced many work opportunities for Americans to China. In addition, Wal-Mart depends heavily on Chinese suppliers, allowing Wal-Mart’s supply to become vulnerable to the consequences of fluctuation in the Chinese market and economy.
Wal-Mart provides deplorable working and living conditions for its workers, including the young women of the factory performing mechanical tasks, such as assembling circuit boards without the use of safety gloves and working long shifts in airless, hot sweatshops without fans. Also, Wal-Mart provides a dormitory for its workers to live in, with the option that you can choose to live
Wal-Mart, an American corporation boasting “Everyday Low Prices” has expanded and outsourced to include the employment of foreign labor and suppliers to meet their corporation’s demands. In doing this, there are several benefits to utilizing cheap Chinese labor. By using Chinese factory labor, the Wal-Mart Corporation is able to provide goods at low prices, increasing their appeal to the consumer. Also, by using cheap labor in other countries, Wal-Mart expands their corporation worldwide, including opening stores in those countries where the company employs cheap, foreign labor. By using Chinese labor, Wal-Mart is able to maximize its corporation’s profits overseas to the United States, where the price range is much higher. In addition, Wal-Mart’s use of foreign labor benefits the poor, foreign countries, such as China, who seek overseas companies to provide jobs and increase their countries’ capita of export. While there are a number of benefits to utilizing Chinese labor, there are numerous amounts of drawbacks. The consumers of Wal-Mart do not approve of the exploitation of the cheap foreign labor, as the conditions and reality of the factory worker’s’ employment and treatment by the factories that produce goods for Wal-Mart are brought to the public’s eye. Also, Wal-Mart, in utilizing Chinese labor, has outsourced many work opportunities for Americans to China. In addition, Wal-Mart depends heavily on Chinese suppliers, allowing Wal-Mart’s supply to become vulnerable to the consequences of fluctuation in the Chinese market and economy.
Wal-Mart provides deplorable working and living conditions for its workers, including the young women of the factory performing mechanical tasks, such as assembling circuit boards without the use of safety gloves and working long shifts in airless, hot sweatshops without fans. Also, Wal-Mart provides a dormitory for its workers to live in, with the option that you can choose to live