they don’t understand how a person from the eastern hemisphere struggling in a sweatshop for low pay deals with trying to get through to the day. In Where Sweatshops Are A Dream by Nickolas Kristof from the New York times‚ he agrees that sweatshops are bad yet proclaims that they are needed. His argument seems to kind of contradict each other. He emphasizes by exclaiming that poorer countries that do not have sweatshops have it worse because they have no work at all. As if he is trying to prove that
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"Nike is criticized for using sweatshops in countries like Indonesia and Mexico. The company has been subject to much critical coverage of the often poor working conditions and the exploitativeness of the cheap overseas labor." answers.com 1. Should Nike be held responsible for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not own‚ but where sub-contractors make product for Nike? Yes‚ but I do not believe that the firm is 100% responsible since it is the sub-contractors who operate
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buggers‚ although being taken away from his family was the last thing he wanted he knew it was the reason he was born. Child labor can be used for so many different reasons‚ such as being solders and training for a war or being used in China in sweatshops Many young males and females work outrageous hours a week on farms‚ and risk their health for little to no pay. “The report‚ "Fingers
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especially overseas. Nike has been identified as one of the many big corporations guilty of Labor abuse. Labor abuse is a growing factor overseas and it is only getting worse. A weak economy should not be an excuse for inhumane treatment of employees in sweatshops. The unfair wages for living conditions combined with the physical abuse the employees undergo is an underlying factor for the unethical fallacies American corporations are viewed as today. As human rights advocates‚ we feel it is our responsibility
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day. Today‚ I hope to spread awareness of the problem that affects us all. These workers are not paid enough to meet their basic needs. For example‚ sweatshop workers earn as little as ½ to ¼ of what they need for basic nutrition‚ shelter‚ energy‚ clothing‚ education‚ and transportation. If major corporations were to double the salary of sweatshop workers‚ they would merely need to increase the consumer cost of an item by only 1.8 percent. Note that these workers are forced to work 14-hour days
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pointed out the negatives of sweatshop conditions of the industrialization era. It emphasized the worst part of its times the low wages‚ long hours‚ and unsanitary working conditions were what symbolized what sweatshops were all about. These conditions were appalling‚ and no person should ever be made to work in these conditions. Sweatshops were originally set up to produce a large quantity of mostly clothing items‚ with cheap labor wages for its workers. Sweatshops more often than not were cramped
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their employees. To be able to keep the prices low Wal Mart is no stranger to using foreign labor. "The sweatshop conditions in which thousands of employees of Wal-Mart ’s suppliers routinely work‚ and the depressive effect that Wal-Mart has on working-class living standards here in the United States‚ are receiving increasing scrutiny"(1) No where in the US can you own a sweatshop. The sweatshop labor is cheap to run and is one way that they can keep the price down. "The truth is that Wal-Mart has
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United Arab of Emirates came exports products from a store in the U.S. and paid the works 105‚623 (equal to the percentage raise Nike is paying in Indonesia)‚ Americans would be grateful. 4. Could Nike have handled the negative publicity over sweatshops better? What might it have done differently‚ not just from a public
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Walmart Supply Chain Controversy August 29‚ 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana coast and Wal-Mart was one of the main sources of aid of this disaster. Their efforts included personally helping their associates with the disaster relief‚ setting up and re-opening he affected stores as soon as possible‚ and even worked hand in hand with government relief agencies. Their trucks were the first to arrive with emergency relief supplies. This was a great act that helped Wal-Mart in the short and long
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health and safety of workers or consumers become ethical standards to which one should adhere to in countries without such laws? C. International Business and Business Ethics: Sweatshops Nike has been plagued over the years with an array of allegations suggesting that its products are manufactured under sweatshop conditions in developing nations. Investigate and discuss the various allegations that have been made over the years‚ and the defenses Nike has raised. Are the charges against Nike
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