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    Like many other U.S. companies‚ Nike manufactures its products in third world countries. Workers in these manufactures may earn as little as 12 cents per hour‚ working in unsafe‚ even dangerous working environments. These manufactures are called sweatshops‚ and have triggered many objections from human right organizations for violating the basic human rights. Victoria Carty (2002) explains that: The Internet has significantly accentuated awareness of the controversies surrounding Nike’s business

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    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 What do we think of when we hear the word sweatshop? Many people associate that word with female immigrant workers‚ who receive very minimal pay. The work area is very dangerous to your health and is an extremely unsanitary work place. The work area is usually overcrowded. That is the general stereotype‚ in my eyes of a sweatshop. All if not more of these conditions were present in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. This company was located in New York City at

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    Kevin Newburg BUS/ECON 494 Professor Gin 1/10/11 2 examples of localization The Mainland China and Macau excursion has brought light onto specific examples of localization practiced by international entities. International products that are tailored to meet the needs of the locale and its culture foster a synergistic understanding to the targeted demographic as well as to the company. More planning‚ research‚ and production costs are incurred when localization is practiced. However‚ the

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    known for some major problematic business practices—ones about which consumers should be made aware; ones that might motivate them to refrain from shopping at Walmart stores. They relate to their treatment of their workers in America; their use of sweatshops and child labor; and the low quality of their products. Growing up‚ my mother worked for Walmart for the majority of my childhood. She had to work the night shift because it provided the higher rate of pay she needed to care for her five children

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    Case on Child Labour Gap Admits Possible Child Labor Problem Journalist Videotapes Conditions at Subcontractor Plant; Gap Official Tells ABC News‚ ’This Is Completely Unacceptable’ By HILARY BROWN‚ LONDON‚ Oct. 28‚ 2007 The multi-billion dollar global fashion company Gap has admitted that it may have unknowingly used child labor in the production of a line of children’s clothing in India. This followed allegations by an investigative reporter based in Delhi‚ whose story was splashed across two

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    been viewed as the poster child for problems associated with globalization. Many have accused Nike of employing workers in sweatshop like conditions in poorer countries like China‚ and more recently Vietnam. In addition to the sweatshop claims‚ people often say that Nike employs child labor‚ often even claiming that the child labor is forced and takes place in sweatshops. Many of these same people also suggest that Nike has taken jobs from the United States to these countries where there are fewer

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    Cited: Jeffrey‚ Royce. “Why every student should know college sports scandals.” The Retriever Weekly. 9 November 2010. Web. 19 February 2011. Kristof & WuDunn. “Shopping With a Social Conscience: Consumer Attitudes Toward Sweatshop Labor.” The Global Sweatshop Issue. 2000. Plaschke‚ Bill. “Should College Athletes Get Paid Beyong Scholarship?” Chicagonow. 3 December 2010. Web. 19 February 2011. Wulf‚ Steve. “Collegiate Athletes Being Paid.” Home Page. 16 April. 2008. Web. 19 February 2011

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    Labor Practices PHL 320

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    A “sweatshop” is defined by the United States Department of Labor as a factory that violates two or more labor laws. The use of questionable labor practices‚ popularly knows as “sweatshop labor”‚ is widespread in the production of consumer goods (Paharia‚ 2013). Major international brands such as Nike and Apple are some of the high-profile companies that have been exposed to such labor abuses. Sweatshop Practices Most members of society automatically consider sweatshops as an unacceptable

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    neglected issue‚ which is the implications of overconsumption. Nowadays people do not realize how much damage overconsumption actually does to our world. They fail to realize that their brand new Nike sneakers were made by child labor in a crammed sweatshop somewhere in Asia. They fail to realize how much pollution was released into the environment from mass production in factories‚ so that they could have cheap goods. Buy Nothing Day is a great way to shed light on the consequences of our overconsumption

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    Introduction A sweatshop is a work place‚ often a factory‚ in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions. Although sweatshops virtually disappeared after World War II because of increased governement regulations and the rise of unions‚ they have reappeared‚ and are steadily increasing in number throughout the world. This is due‚ in large part‚ to economic globalization. Multinational corporations have been moving production facilities out of democratic‚ industrial nations

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