business practices truly were in the past. The main controversy being its use of sweatshops to produce its merchandise. Nike is quite possibly the most sustainable company in terms of their current goal and methods of achieving them. Nike is clearly extremely focused on putting its bad history behind it and focusing on making its business as sustainable as it can be for
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BA 3300 – BUSINESS CORNERSTONE NOTE: 6th edition. Assessing Sweatshirts from Sweatshop You will use the critical thinking skills you have been developing to identify violations of the Universal Intellectual Standards and Logical Fallacies in the essay‚ “Sweatshirts from Sweatshops” on pages 406-408 of your textbook. On pages 387-402 of your textbook‚ you will meet Tanya‚ Kevin‚ Elise and Dalton‚ Tanya encounters a series of discussions—the first with Kevin and the second with Elise and
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References: 1. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn‚ The New York Times Magazine‚ 12th October 2008‚ Two Cheers for Sweatshops http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000924mag-sweatshops.html‚ accessed 27th March 2011 2. Coerden‚ W. Max and Vousden‚ Neil‚ (2001)‚ “Paved with good intentions: social dumping and raising labor standards in developing countries.”In
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Nike and Unfair Labor Practices I. Introduction Nike has been accused of the unfair labor practice of sweatshop labor. A sweatshop is a place with hazardous working environments‚ extreme temperatures and abusive employers‚ hence the term sweat shop. Sweatshop workers work long days exceeding 14 hours and earn less than the living wage (Britanica‚ n.d.). While these conditions may be shocking to Americans and Modern Western Nations the notion of abusive working conditions is more attractive to
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outworking industry. Outworkers live in disgusting‚ unhygienic living conditions because of their incredibly low income‚ while Australian teenagers are oblivious to this and the story of the person behind the machine who has made their clothing. A sweatshop is a manufacturing facility where workers endure poor working conditions‚ long hours‚ low wages and other violations of labor rights (Oxfam‚ 2012). Sportswear brand Nike illegally forced people in Vietnam to work 65 hours per week‚ for 15cents per
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Case: "Nike: The Sweatshop Debate" 1. Should Nike be held responsible for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not own‚ but where subcontractors make products for Nike? Yes‚ Nike is not only responsible but also accountable for the working conditions of foreign countries that it does not own. Nike should realize that it is a Global Organization and working globally does not only mean that taking advantage of low cost destination but also taking responsibility of the contractors/employees
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loves children. I enjoy playing with them‚ helping them‚ and just being around them. So when I first agreed with corporations who use child labor I shocked myself completely. After examining two articles; one "The Case for Sweatshops"‚ by David R. Henderson‚ and two "Sweatshops or a Shot at a Better Life"‚ by Cathy Young‚ I came to the conclusion that in some cases when young children work under proper conditions it can keep them out of the streets and be helpful to them and their families.
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The Nike Sweatshop DebateShould Nike be held responsible for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not own‚ but where subcontractors make products for Nike?Nike is definitely not only responsible but also accountable for the working conditions of foreign factories that it does not own which it subcontracts with. Nike should have taken the initiative to be responsible of the contractors/employees working in other countries on a global scale. For example: Recently‚ Pepsi Cola was in
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plant in 2010 focused everyone’s attention on the conditions of low-skilled labor and migrant workers. Allegations of employee mistreatment appeared as early as in 2006‚ when the UK newspaper The Daily Mail criticized Apple for using Foxconn‚ as a sweatshop supplier Only fans were installed‚ so workers often felt suffocated during the hot and humid summer. A poor smell persisted and nobody cared about cleaning the common place. Workers referred to the dormitory as “the garbage dorm.” On each floor‚
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the horrendous conditions in sweatshops and the slave like treatment. Imagine working hot‚ small‚ overpopulated work space for cents a day or week. Starting from as young as five just to make enough for a loaf of bread. The Industrial Revolution had many downsides but with every negative there is a positive. The positives here 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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