Flexible Specialisation and the persistence of the sweatshop Sweatshops are known to be a mass of workers mass-producing goods they may never be able to afford themselves. The sweatshop rose to meaning as work moved off the farm and into the city‚ and employers found a limitless amount of so called labourers to make their products. The low entry costs and high labour intensity linked with the textile industry tended to concentrate sweatshops in clothing production. As industrialization grew‚ labour
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HBH225N Human Resource Management Semester 02/2012 Individual Assignment Nike – Human Resource Management Issues and Solutions Due Date: Friday‚ 30. November 2012 By Katharina Pilgrim‚ ID: 4310187 Executive Summary In 1964 a company known back then as Blue Ribbon Sports was founded by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight. 14 years later the US American multinational corporation officially became Nike‚ Inc.‚ which is up to today engaged in the development‚ design and international marketing
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Quick facts on sweatshops; > Girls between the ages of 15 and 25 make 85% of the workforce in sweatshops >Up to 75% of a sweatshop worker’s income is spent on necessities such as food‚ clothes‚ etc. >on average workers have a 60-80 hour workweek in a sweatshop > in china‚ 2009‚ about 1‚000‚000 workers were injured on the job and 20‚000 got sick from their work in hazardous conditions >Workers are forced to handle dangerous chemicals and glues in sweatshops with little or no protection > A child working
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Sweatshops Throughout the years‚ United States businesses have had to face protests from government officials‚ labor leaders‚ and student organizations due to employing sweatshop labor. If you are unaware of what sweatshops are‚ they are generally characterized as a place of employment that have very low pay‚ very long hours of work‚ and terribly poor working conditions. After hearing this‚ most people would assume that is awful and they should be illegal and banned immediately from all countries
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I. Introduction Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager for the mutual-fund management group NorthPoint‚ was reviewing the financials of Nike Inc. to consider buying shares for the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund that she managed. A week prior‚ Nike Inc. held an analysts’ meeting to share their 2001 fiscal results and develop a strategy to revitalize the company. II. Background of Firm Nike’s revenues since 1997 had grown from $9 billion‚ while net income had fallen $220 million. A study written by Douglas
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In this day and age‚ multinational corporations control the market‚ the time of the local taylor and mom-and pop stores are over. While these companies sell goods in 1st world countries‚ their produce comes from sweatshops primarily in developing nations. Sweatshops are not legal; they are defined by the US Department of Labor as factories that violates 2 or more labor laws. The government of these third world countries and the corporations are at fault. While they line their pockets‚ their workers
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Sweatshop: Sweat Not! “It’s [cheap labor] the fastest-growing criminal market in the world‚” (Edmondson 149) Gail Edmondson writes in an article discussing cheap labor. Economic growth has always been a large interest for most countries. Due to many high unemployment rates‚ corporations take advantage of the lower classes by enforcing cheap labor. Cheap labor is the employment of people with very low wages‚ under poor or unsafe conditions. Since people in the lower class do not have much money‚ they
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global economy is controlled by sweatshops (Kristof Wudunn 542). Well‚ that can’t be true! They call it the Sweatshop Belt: China‚ South Korea‚ Malaysia‚ Indonesia and Bangladesh to be more precise. What comes to mind when we say the word "sweatshop"? Sweatshops are known for their inability to provide a safe working environment‚ low pay rate and child labour. Because of all these negative connotations‚ sweatshops are continuously perceived in a negative way worldwide. Nike‚ Gap and H&M are brands that
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piece that was posted in the Highline: Huffington Post. Hobbes argues that the ethical shopper no longer exists and for reasons he drones on about‚ will never exist again. American brands have been outsourcing their sweatshops for decades‚ which will be discussed in “The Ideal Sweatshop.” However‚ Hobbes brings a new element into the mix‚ because the countries that are being outsourced to have to produce clothing for their own populations as well the problem becomes unsustainable. In the example of
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Mini research on sweatshop A sweat shop is a work place‚ often a factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions. It is defined by the US department of labour that violates two or more labour loss. Sweatshop is a light-hearted game based upon very present realities that many workers around the world contend with each other. In developing countries‚ an estimated 250 million children ages 5-14 are forced to work. Products that commonly come from sweatshops are shoes‚ clothing
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