Nike Sweatshops Nike is the largest seller of athletic footwear and apparel in the world. The company is primarily engaged in the design‚ development‚ and worldwide marketing of footwear‚ apparel‚ equipment and accessories. The company operates in the US‚ Europe‚ Asia Pacific‚ the Middle East and Africa. It is headquartered in Beaverton‚ Oregon. (Datamonitor‚ 2006‚ p 4) By shifting manufacturing to developing countries‚ Nike is able to achieve significant cost savings owing to the lower
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Sweatshops are manufacturing workplaces which treat its workers inhumanely‚ paying low wages‚ imposing harsh and unsafe working conditions‚ demanding levels of performance that are harmful to the workers and child labour. These are generally formed in developing nations and third world countries where the cost to employ labour is far cheaper than the cost to employ capital. Even though they are extensively used in most industries‚ they are infamous for their exploitation in the garment industry.
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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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B band 11-27-12 Did you ever wonder where your sneakers are made from? Many of us have a desire to buy sneakers from a high-end brand where we are absolutely clueless about where it’s made. Due to popularity and the on-going trend‚ many youths will do just about anything for sneakers nowadays. Nike is a very well known shoe and athletic wear company. However‚ not many people know that Nike controls many sweatshops. Nike should not be allowed to pay people less than a living wage‚ make them
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Sweatshops need to be stopped‚ they are manufacturing establishments where employees are forced to work long hours‚ under terrible conditions to create products for minimum wage just so transnational companies can make their fortunes. They are a horrific way to produce products‚ and need to be banished. There are three reasons why sweatshops should be stopped‚ and they are‚ that sweatshops have horrible working conditions‚ Unfair wages and unfair hours‚ and children aren’t able to experience a normal
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In the year 2010 the United States spent nearly $2.5 trillion on Healthcare for those who could not afford it. The installation of universal Healthcare will cut the available medical services. Even though it’s payed for by the government‚ free universal Healthcare is never actually free. Free Healthcare is also not fair for those who are employed somewhere and earn money. They will have to pay for someone else’s Healthcare who chooses not to get a job. The government should not offer free Healthcare
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Dangers of Sweatshops throughout the World Imagine a world where all children can go to school for six hours instead of working in a factory for twice that amount of time. Imagine that their parents get to see them more than a few times a year because they were not shipped to distant family members due to a lack of income in the household. The parents are not forced to work in unsafe environments for hours upon end and do not face verbal and physical abuse daily. This world is a world without sweatshops
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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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getting any of these basic benefits. Most of the sweatshops are paying less to the female
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standard living conditions and long grueling hours away from their families and home. In 2000 more than 11‚000 sweatshops violated minimum wage and overtime laws. This type of behavior brings to question their ability to gain trust within their company amongst their employees‚ their investors‚ and the public. This hinges on one aspect of interpersonal behavior found in Nike’s sweatshops. By definition‚ trust is a culture of transparent communication which forms a foundation for building relationships
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