Running head: Nike and the Sweatshop Debate Nike the Sweatshop Debate Shelia D. Marshall Global Strategies MGT 448 Shabbir Karim October 12‚ 2009 Nike the Sweatshop Debate Beneath all the hoopla and controversy about Nike being a successful company in the United States in which its earnings in 2009 according to Hoovers Inc.‚ 2009‚ Nike’s revenue for 2009 was $19‚ 176.1 million and their gross profit was $8‚604.4 million‚ made possible by the hands of women and underage workers
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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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threat‚ but when you migrated to a new place at the beginning was not always easy. The sweatshops are not provided with a standard working environment to the workers‚ low wages and hire child labor. Some may say people who are working in the sweatshops is a threat because behind the sweatshops are controlling by the super brands; but they usually don’t solve problems and try to ignore them. However‚ those sweatshops are not a threat‚ for instance‚ if the workers don’t like the working place they can
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In the mid 1990’s Nike started facing criticism after several articles were released showing the poor labor conditions of its workers in sweatshops in places like China‚ Japan‚ and other Asian countries. As early as 1993 reports started being released about the poor working conditions. One such report was a CBS exposé by Roberta Baskin describing the working conditions of the Indonesian women working in the factories‚ explaining that they were making only $1.30 a day. During the report she criticized
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Sweatshop is defined as 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 also referred to as the “sweat factory”‚ creates a hazardous and unhealthy working environment for employees such as the exposure to harmful materials‚ dangerous situations‚ extreme temperatures and abuse from employers. Sweatshop workers work for long hours‚ sometimes without taking any breaks‚ and these workers
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Case study: Nike: the Sweatshop Debate 1) Should Nike be held responsible for working condition in factories that it does not own‚ but where sub-contractors make products for Nike? Nike doesn’t own any manufacturing facilities and outsource its production. Therefore‚ it can’t be directly blamed for terrible working conditions. Nike can influence indirectly on working conditions at contracting factories thorough refusing to work with sweatshop factories. However‚ Nike‚ like any other capitalistic
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Ethics Issue: Is it ethical for an American company to operate a sweatshop in a foreign country? Facts: According to the US Department of Labor‚ a sweatshop is an employer that violates more than one federal or state labor law governing minimum wage and overtime‚ child labor‚ industrial homework‚ occupational safety and health‚ workers compensation or industry [1]. As we examine the effects that sweatshops have on the employees in the foreign country‚ most American’s would agree that forcing
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A. Marketing Issues in Business Ethics: Marketing tobacco and alcohol. Discuss the ethics of marketing tobacco‚ marketing alcohol‚ or both‚ in terms any or all of the following: (1) underage customers‚ (2) target marketing ethnic groups and/or women‚ (3) moving questionable practices that have been abandoned in the United States to markets in developing nations. Discuss the ethics of marketing tobacco in ways that are illegal in the United States (i.e‚ to children during television shows
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By definition a sweatshop is a “negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. Sweatshop workers often work long hours for very low pay in horrible conditions‚ regardless of laws mandating overtime pay and or minimum wage”. Many corporations in the United States use sweatshop labor in countries over seas such as China to produce their products at a lower cost. As entailed in the letter from a man born in China‚ many citizens on these countries
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The Sweatshop Debate Case Study Brenda Borders MGT/448 June 20‚ 2011 Gregory Flick Nike: The Sweatshop Debate Case Study Nike was established in 1972 and is a leading marketer of athletic shoes and apparel. Nike operates in more than 160 countries‚ directly or indirectly employs nearly one million people‚ and for the fiscal year ended 2010 reported revenues of $19 billion. (nikebiz.com) Nike has consistently been accused of‚ criticized for‚ and protested against‚ for using sweatshops to
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