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    Working Conditions One of the main effects of the industrial revolution is working conditions. There were no laws back then regulated what factories could do with their biohazard waste(BCP). Many factories work hours were long almost up to12 to 15 hours a day (OCS). Many those machines they work on were dangerous. Many people lives the factories they worked at and at times they would get horribly beaten like they were kids they were often slaved away. The working conditions were so bad that they

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    children as young as six was employed to work in mines and factories. There were a couple major problems that came with the idea of child labor. First‚ they were given empty promises to convince them to work in the factories. The children were promised good food‚ shelter‚ given better education‚ and a better living standard‚ but they were simply tricks to lure the kids in to work for them. Secondly‚ the children were underpaid. Factory owners would pay the children as

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    enough. Kids shouldn’t be working in the dangerous factories at all. The city streets are dirty and the houses are crowded‚ the coal mine workers may have it the worst working in the hot‚ damp‚ and narrow underground tunnels. Life is becoming very hard ever since the Industrial Revolution started. I did some investigating on my own and found the factories down in the center of the city to be dirty and dangerous. You can smell the factories from 2 blocks away and visibility is very low once inside

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    began investigating labor conditions in Apple’s supply chain in China. Subsequent reports on Foxconn factories in 2007 prompted Apple to start auditing its supplier factories and also to begin publishing its annual Supplier Responsibility Progress Reports. In addition to Apple‚ other electronics companies felt compelled to respond after the media exposed poor working conditions in Foxconn factories. Under pressure from Apple and other companies‚

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    are the electricity to run the factories and machines‚ the lights to allow work into the night hours. But the positives did not always

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    interdependent on each other as a consequence of increased trade and cultural exchange as countries interconnect together the increase of trade rises. Companies have expanded and become transnational cooperation’s with divisions in many countries to their factories. The reasons for globalisation interlinks with the benefits and problems caused with in the industry‚ for example Improvements in transportation have supported globalisation larger cargo ships mean that the cost of transporting goods between countries

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    serious work-related injuries and worker suicides but exist throughout Apple’s supply chain. The abuse of factory workers making Apple products came under scrutiny earlier this year following a New York Times story that described poor working conditions at the factories of contractors making the products. The Fair Labor Association conducted a month long investigation on Foxconn factories and worker abuse and health and safety risks for workers. alleged that the workers at Foxconn‚ which makes

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    manufacturing of goods in a factory. Industry took off during the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution was a period of improvement in industrial technology. Industry is mainly concentrated in three regions‚ North America‚ Europe‚ and East Asia. Each of these regions account for around 25% of industrial output in the world. Industry consist of many factories distributed around the world. Geographers work to explain the reasons for the different locations of these factories. Costs resulting from

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    received. Most workers have travelled a long way to the city to work in the factory‚ leaving their family in the countryside‚ some workers are the only one who has an income in the whole family. Although there’s a minimum wage in China‚ most workers earn so little that they can barely feed their family. When the workers’ salary differ from the amount they signed up for‚ they don’t know how to stand up for themselves‚ some factories own would threaten them that the family members of the worker would be

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    The significant increase in agricultural development‚ created the growth of factories. Individuals started their own business‚ opened factories‚ and shipping companies‚ accumulated immense wealth. The factory owners‚ merchants‚ and shippers controlled the wealth. This urbanization caused an increase in population; people left the country‚ their farms‚ and moved into the cities in masses numbers to work in the factories. This also caused overcrowding due to rapid movement of people into the cities

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