Apple to do more to ensure its Chinese factory workers can be treated better. The product‚ iPhone 5 to be made ethically. The petition has been acknowledged by Apple and said that they cared about every work in its supply chain. Actually‚ Mr. Mark Shields is not related to any affairs concerning Apple‚ his action is totally initialed by himself. 1.2 Culpable Decisions (mincul/midcul/maxcul) Mincul – Apple has known about labour abuses in some factories for four years and they are still going
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Nike’s original name was Blue Ribbon Sports and its mission is to be the world’s leading sports and fitness company (Nikebiz‚ 2010). Nike had two options for the manufacturing of footwear products. The first option is Nike can own and operate the factories and manufacture the product. The second option is to subcontract the manufacturing of the products to outside sources. In either situation‚ the facilities can be domestic or international and the company can have issues within its systems and processes
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In his New York Times essay‚ “where Sweatshops are a Dream‚” writer Nicholas Kristof described the horrible living conditions of the people in Phnom Penh. Nicholas writes that the Phnom people believe that having a factory job is a way out of poverty and not as dangerous as scavenging on the street. He goes on to add that Democrats and the Americans are supporting Mr. Obama in the war against dangerous and cruel conditions in sweatshops. Nicholas implies that he knows that sweatshops will help the
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directly responsible for the Industrial Revolution in the United States at the turn of the century. As the poor immigrants of Europe flooded America‚ they quickly needed jobs and transportation. To supply these to needy immigrants‚ more and more factories were needed‚ leading to the rise of industrialism in America. Following the Civil War‚ the United States saw rapid growth in industrial manufacturing. With the readily available presence of Southern cotton‚ Northern textile mills became widely occurrent
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was discovered in Britain. The United Kingdom had a large amount of coal‚ especially in the North West‚ North East‚ Southern Scotland and Wales. Coal also helped improve the ability to manufacture iron‚ a metal needed to make machines and build factories. England traded and sold coal‚ oil‚ wood‚ steel in the markets to get money so they can feed their people. Coal was discovered ages ago but Thomas Newcomen discovered how to use coal. He discovered that coal is a fuel source. He discovered how
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developed the whole working process was changed. In other words‚ the society was introduced to factory work‚ bigger families and new social classes. First of all people was introduced to factory work. Even though factories were built to make the work of the people easier it brought new problems as well. The working conditions were very poor. People worked around 14 to 16 hours a day. Only the owners of the factories were satisfied with this kind of working process because they knew that the workers worked
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1920’s. Due to the mass increase of immigration‚ both the “Old Immigration” and the “New Immigration” gained new opportunities due to the Second Industrial Revolution. This included the introduction new technology and innovations‚ and the creation of factories and the assembly line and mass production‚ and a new urbanized lifestyle. The city became a new and worthy opportunity for those who formerly worked on a farm. By 1925 the city‚ and not the farm‚ had become the basic reality for most Americans because
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industry. For example‚ there would be no mill girls in the cotton industry if there was no slave labor available to pick cotton in the South. The growth of industrial labor caused American cities to grow as a result because people followed to work in factories. The result of the growing American cities allowed rich city dwellers to be able to hire someone to do things that they would normally do or would still be done in a more rural setting (Schaller et al. Pg.382).Women filled these role as they became
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is believed that the “The modern bourgeois society... has not done away with class antagonisms... new conditions of oppression… but created new forms of struggle in place of the old ones” (Marx and Friederich 14). The rise of the middle class‚ new factory owners‚ lead to the control and exploiting of the working class. This new class has emerged and made immense profits through unfair treatment of workers because of demands for cheap labor. This division further enhances a social gap between the wealthy
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Known as one of the most significant turning points in history‚ the Industrial Revolution modified a vast majority of aspects of daily life. Industrialization was a change from hand tools to a vicissitude to powered machinery‚ mass production‚ and factories. Many consider this time one of the greatest times of all because it advanced us in technology; however‚ many yet fail to see the faults and horrors of industrialization. The Industrial Revolution definitely did have a positive effect‚ increasing
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