Answers for the case study Student advocacy and “sweatshop labor”; the case of Russell Athletic Q1 * Culture of the particular country It is very important to study the different elements of culture of the country. When consider China and India‚ being large countries‚ the cultural diversity is higher and varies with the geographical areas. In some cultures‚ the value systems and ethics will be critically affected on the business. Some businesses are almost impossible to start in some regions
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Sweatshops 1 Sweatshops and the Children that work in them Lisa Marsh Strayer University Business Ethics 290 Professor Tacha Brooks Sweatshops 2 Abstract There are so many children that are being forced and used to work in such poor conditions. I feel this is ethically wrong to basically use children in this fashion in order to mass produce a product. It exploit children in one of the worse kind of ways almost like imprisoning
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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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CASE ANALYSIS NIKE THE SWEATSHOP DEBATE Summary of the Facts Nike was established in 1972 by former University of Oregon track star Phil Knight. ... Nike has $10 billion in annual revenues and sells its products in 140 countries. ... Nike has been dogged for more than a decade by repeated accusations that its products are made in sweatshops where workers‚ many of them children‚ slave away in hazardous conditions for less than subsistence wages. ... Many reporters‚ TV shows‚ companies and organizations
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they don’t understand how a person from the eastern hemisphere struggling in a sweatshop for low pay deals with trying to get through to the day. In Where Sweatshops Are A Dream by Nickolas Kristof from the New York times‚ he agrees that sweatshops are bad yet proclaims that they are needed. His argument seems to kind of contradict each other. He emphasizes by exclaiming that poorer countries that do not have sweatshops have it worse because they have no work at all. As if he is trying to prove that
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"Nike is criticized for using sweatshops in countries like Indonesia and Mexico. The company has been subject to much critical coverage of the often poor working conditions and the exploitativeness of the cheap overseas labor." answers.com 1. Should Nike be held responsible for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not own‚ but where sub-contractors make product for Nike? Yes‚ but I do not believe that the firm is 100% responsible since it is the sub-contractors who operate
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buggers‚ although being taken away from his family was the last thing he wanted he knew it was the reason he was born. Child labor can be used for so many different reasons‚ such as being solders and training for a war or being used in China in sweatshops Many young males and females work outrageous hours a week on farms‚ and risk their health for little to no pay. “The report‚ "Fingers
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especially overseas. Nike has been identified as one of the many big corporations guilty of Labor abuse. Labor abuse is a growing factor overseas and it is only getting worse. A weak economy should not be an excuse for inhumane treatment of employees in sweatshops. The unfair wages for living conditions combined with the physical abuse the employees undergo is an underlying factor for the unethical fallacies American corporations are viewed as today. As human rights advocates‚ we feel it is our responsibility
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day. Today‚ I hope to spread awareness of the problem that affects us all. These workers are not paid enough to meet their basic needs. For example‚ sweatshop workers earn as little as ½ to ¼ of what they need for basic nutrition‚ shelter‚ energy‚ clothing‚ education‚ and transportation. If major corporations were to double the salary of sweatshop workers‚ they would merely need to increase the consumer cost of an item by only 1.8 percent. Note that these workers are forced to work 14-hour days
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pointed out the negatives of sweatshop conditions of the industrialization era. It emphasized the worst part of its times the low wages‚ long hours‚ and unsanitary working conditions were what symbolized what sweatshops were all about. These conditions were appalling‚ and no person should ever be made to work in these conditions. Sweatshops were originally set up to produce a large quantity of mostly clothing items‚ with cheap labor wages for its workers. Sweatshops more often than not were cramped
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