Ethical Issues in the Fashion Industry Introduction This essay reflects on the lecture titled Creative Economy by Martin Bouette. I found this lecture relevant to my final project. My topic is the changing trends in the apparel industry. How Corporate Social Responsibility affects the supply chain‚ going local from global‚ vertical from horizontal. The lecture is relevant in many aspects‚ for example the knowledge society’s changes and ethical issues and responsibility within the apparel industry
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Topic 1 Global Warming and the Green Movement Executive summary Base on the understanding of global warming and through the terrible experience of living environment that we have already known human is the chief culprit. It is an international issue and everyone has the responsibility to protect our earth. In this assignment‚ we will discuss how does global warming happen and explain how to remedy it. Introduction What is global warming? "Global Warming is the increase
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with healthy and safe working environments. In Chinese society it is nothing like this. Since the difference between the rich and poor is a lot greater in China than it is here‚ many of the poor jump at the opportunity to work in a factory or sweatshop job. They are very low paying and are not provided with a safe and healthy environment to work in. Often times the terrible environment is accompanied with abuse provided by the managers. It is not getting any better either because of corrupt
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In Kim’s life‚ working in a sweatshop during her childhood emphasizes her personal sacrifice. She sacrifices her freedom and equality‚ which is removed from the environment of a sweatshop‚ working long hours after school and completing her homework on the train. Kim describes the environment of the sweatshop as‚ “after less than an hour in the factory‚ my pores were clouded with fabric dust. A net of red strands spread
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is the current CEO and Phil Knight still continues to hold a position at the top of the organization‚ as the company Chairman. Nike has always been a company that’s been questioned ethically. People have heard about the stories of the sweatshops in Southeast Asia exploiting adolescent employees for unreasonably small amounts of money. This had blemished Nike’s reputation several years ago‚ but since then‚ it has strived to become a truly respectable company. Located on Nike’s website you
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contractors were using sweatshops‚ just like in the article “The Discarded Factory” and the film “Made in L.A.”‚ to produce these shoes that Nike required a huge demand for. These workers worked overtime to make as much was demanded‚ yet did not even make minimum wage for the work. The US sells the Nike shoes for $70 dollars each‚ while the women who made the shoe only make 3.9 per cent of that. Wichterich explains how the women had to deal with the extreme heat of the sweatshops‚ water twice per day
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Industrial Revolution Many things came to be at the turn of the 19th century‚ such as the Industrial Revolution‚ which brought many positive things to the world today. One of many positive effects was the lift off of innovative technology. Such as the telegraph and telephone. These inventions transformed communications in which sped up the sharing of important knowledge (Wyatt 112). Technology led to the development of mechanization in which another positive effect was the ability to mass-produce
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A good example of the type of exploitative social relationship that Marx and the activists based their capitalist ideology on can be seen in the first scene of the film‚ “The Edukators‚” during the anti-sweatshop protest which involved the sale of high priced sneakers that were made by sweatshop labor in Southeast Asia. Jules and the other activists were not only protesting unfair wages and the horrible conditions the workers were subjected to‚ but they were also trying to educate the consumers about
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organizing‚ more than 250 million children between the ages of five and fourteen are forced to work in 100 countries ‚ most performing dangerous tasks. Although this crisis has been going on throughout the world some major problem with child labor is sweatshops‚ trafficking children under eighteen ‚ and enforcement of countries to have law’s for child labor . Children working in countries over sea’s has been a problem going on for many years but not a big concern in society. However‚ about half of these
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one example of how workers in the garment industry are being exploited. We don’t think about where the clothes we buy come from; we ignore the fact that companies use their workers like dogs for a profit or that childhoods are being stolen away by sweatshops in third world countries. Fast fashion is not sustainable. It’s not ethical‚ it’s not ‘cool’ and it’s killing our planet. The fashion
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