advantaged and they can improve things for their families. This is likely to affect health and lead to a higher life expectancy However‚ there is evidence that conditions in Nike factories are not good. The number of strikes in 2007/8 points to sweatshop conditions with workers expected to work long hours. This has a negative impact on the quality of life of local people. The majority of the workforce are young women‚ so those with children may not be able to take care of them. The economy undoubtedly
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White like me is a documentary tracking Tim Wise detailing the history of racism in America and how it still affects us in the present. Tim Wise attended a school where the teachers and students were mostly black‚ and he said he had learned to respect the “black authority figures” from a young age. During college Tim realized he was privileged as a white person: by having the choice to speak out against racism from a distance and not doing anything about locally. The white privilege included having
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p. 164-165). However‚ in todays society that personal connection has been lost through globalization and capitalism. Two clear examples that show commodity fetishism are the documentaries of Blood Coltan and A Coke controversy: Indian soft-drink sweatshops. These two documentaries highlight just how oblivious people are outside of the western culture. Through the greed of the west we are making the lives of many people unliveable. Blood
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and fair pay. This system separates the worker from his or her work because the worker is being paid very little in exchange for making a product that is sold for exponentially more money. In the case of the Sweating System and the practice of sweatshops‚ labor is being criminally exploited. This is a way for large corporations to pay low wages and make more of the consumed product in order to accelerate the supply chain. Outsourced workers‚ who are at the bottom of the labor ladder‚ are utilized
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1.0 Introduction In these present days‚ the world is full of development due to globalisation. Globalisation can be defined as the system of interaction among the countries around the world and serve as one of the purpose in developing the global economy. “Globalisation refers to all those processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society‚ global society” (Martin Albrow‚ 1990). There are also some famous quotation about globalisation. (Please refer to appendix
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CSR RELATED DOCUMETNS: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm Supersize me (McDonalds): http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=98 The film documents this lifestyle ’s drastic effects on Spurlock ’s physical and psychological well-being‚ and explores the fast food industry ’s corporate influence‚ including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit. The reason for Spurlock ’s investigation was the increasing spread of obesity throughout U.S. society‚ which the
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Evaluating CSR of Walmart Walmart founded by Sam Walton in 1962 is a multinational retail corporation‚ with the opening of the first Walmart discount store in Rogers‚ Arkansas (US). As the nation’s largest retailer and second largest corporation‚ Walmart has the significant influences on the retail world. It offers to its customers a one-stop shopping experience because it has a full offering of groceries and general merchandise in a single store. Now Walmart consists of over 110‚000 stores and
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Ethical Dilemmas for Multinational Enterprise: A Philosophical Overview Part One: Review Question #1 Multinational Corporations have always been and are currently now under harsh criticism. They are mainly condemned for exploiting resources and workers of third world countries‚ taking jobs away from the US industry‚ and destroying local cultures. Although there are negatives of multinational corporations‚ there are also positives. Business done overseas provides jobs for the people of the
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Two of the most commonly heard of jobs included servants and sweatshop workers. Boys and girls became household servants around ten or twelve. They would help around the house doing all sorts of different activities and odd jobs. Children were required to follow many rules around the family since they were of the lower class. Younger servants could not even be seen‚ heard‚ or around the family or their friends (McMurtry 169). Sweatshops were very small makeshift factories‚ usually ran by poor immigrants
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You have been made aware that your co-worker has been skimming the till at the local bar which you are employed at. You are met with the decision to either expose this co-worker or begin receiving hundreds of dollars in compensation from this employee for keeping quiet. Many people would “black male” this person until they received the what they felt was a fair amount of money to not say anything‚ others would go directly to their employer to let them know what has been going on at their place of
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