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    Labor Practices Brenna Heyne PHL/320 02/16/2015 Todd Goodling Sweatshop Labor Sweatshop labor can be described as work that is performed under conditions that violate normal standards of minimum wage‚ employment‚ worker treatment‚ and workplace health or safety (Govekar‚ 2006). Sweatshops can exist anywhere and some may argue they can be beneficial and driven by market demands. In my opinion sweatshop labor is unethical and should not be allowed to be used to produce products for

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    Background Information Introduction: The term ‘sweatshops’ means; A factory or workshop‚ especially in the clothing industry‚ where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Sweatshops are involved in many terrible breaches of Human Rights Breaches‚ Fuelling Greed‚ Feminism and Environmental Impacts which then lead to bad situations causing deaths‚ injuries and further corrupted situations. Human Rights Breaches: Australia is outsourcing the production

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    make a profit. Sweatshops are factories where people who live in developing countries work. Sweatshops are famous for overworking and abusing their employees‚ having small‚ cramped work spaces where there is little to no ventilation. American companies use sweatshops to get their products quickly manufactured and selling for the cheapest price possible. American Companies should not be allowed to use sweatshops and American consumers should stop buying products made by sweatshops in order to keep

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    Pertaining to the issue on Sweatshops overall‚ it always existed in the past and many employees‚ including women were taken advantage by employers under this concept. Throughout the course of time‚ many companies began to take their businesses to places other than the United States for that the price they will pay for production of goods would be a fraction of what they would pay if their business was in this country. In regards to the concept on Sweatshops overseas‚ it is certain that businesses

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    speculation for “child labor at a Cambodian sweatshop” and has been criticized heavily by countless humanitarian activists because of their use of sweatshops (Mason). Generally‚ in these sweatshops‚ workers and machines are crammed into tight spaces with dust and almost no light (Powell). However‚ some may argue that sweatshops are advantageous because only a small group of people suffer for the benefit of others‚ which is an ideology

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    Which companies are operating sweatshops? Many of the companies directly running sweatshops are small and don’t have much name recognition. However‚ virtually every retailer in the U.S. has ties to sweatshops. The U.S. is the biggest market for the garment industry and almost all the garment sales in this country are controlled by 5 corporations: Wal-Mart‚ JC Penney‚ Sears‚ The May Company (owns and operates Lord & Taylor‚ Hecht1s‚ Filene1s and others) and Federated Department Stores (owns and operates

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    opportunity to buy as much as they can for as little as possible especially on black Friday. The problem he identifies in his article‚ is the high human cost and forced people in sweatshops have to work per week for just pennies an hour just to make the necessary for their survival. Ravisankar assumes his readers know little about sweatshops and furthermore‚ how difficult and awful conditions are really are. He goes on to say that some of these workers have to be forced to work extremely long 70 to 80 hours

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    Mrs. Scheuerman  Emerging Technology  9 February 2015  A Closer Look at Sweatshops     Sweatshops are work environments that have three major characteristics—long hours‚  low pay‚ and unhealthy working conditions. Sweatshops may also have rules that restrict  workers ’ freedoms‚ including limiting bathroom breaks and even conversations with fellow  workers. At its worst‚ violence is used against sweatshop workers. Sweatshops have been a  factor in the production of goods around the world for centuries

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    Ethical issues regarding Sweatshops Michelle Rice Business Ethics Jacqueline Newkirk Remember when you were at the mall the last time and saw a pair of Nike shoes that you just couldn’t live without? You had to buy them‚ for a pricey cost‚ and just loved them‚ right? We all have owned a pair or two of Nike shoes in our life. They were the “cool” shoes to have back when I was in school. The thing that we may not have known is that Nike has been using “children as young as fifteen years old”

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    thought I was going to write an essay in opposition of black-market sweatshops‚ but I was wrong. Americans have been brought up to see sweatshops as immoral and degrading. We ’ve only seen one side of the story and that ideal has been reinforced for generations. Learning about sweatshops from another point of view has opened my eyes. I still see sweatshops as corrupt but also a necessary evil. For all the misery they can engender‚ sweatshops at least offer a precarious escape from the poverty that is the

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