It’s around 4:30 and I’m walking to work in the darkness. It’s always nerve-racking walking down the alleyways and the closed markets.
I’m at work now its 5:10 I’m late because the queue to get in is so long. At my work station I have a sowing machine fixed to the desk, the pedal clamped to the concrete floor and a pile of material, cut, ready to be sown together. A shiver runs down my spine as one of the guards glare at us if they catch us taking things or slacking off they will beat us.
I’ve been working for about 7 hours 40 and everybody are dragging themselves almost literally to the canteen, where we get our daily watered down soup and our thin slice of Nan bread. I protect my bread in my clenched hand and swallow my soup in one gulp, it makes me gag it’s so horrible and then stuff the bread in my mouth. The reason I eat so fast is not because I want to get back to work it’s because people will take your food out of your hand if you leave it unguarded.
I sleep for about ten minutes at the metal table and wake up to find my hair pin gone and everybody start to leave the courtyard to get back to work, thankfully they did not find my ring. The managers do not like us having our hair down so I get up sneak up behind one of the younger girls and pull out one of theirs, they turn around to see who it was but I jumped into the crowd and tie my hair up and go to my station and work with my mask off because I don’t like it. Everybody sweats so much that everybody wears only
Rhetorical Analysis “Where Sweatshops Are A Dream” In his New York Times opinion column, “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream”, writer Nicholas D. Kristof uses his experience living in East Asia to argue his positive outlook on sweatshops. Kristof wants to persuade his audience, Obama and his team, along with others who are for “labor standards”, that the best way to help people in poor countries is to promote manufacturing there, not campaign against them. He uses Phnom Penh as an example to show why…
The perspective that sweatshops are a lesser evil requires a look at the bigger picture involved. This perspective takes an approach that in general conditions and wages in sweatshops are equal or better than the alternatives available to the labor force in these countries. While these conditions are not ideal, they do provide for improvement. It is not doubted that there will be situations in which the conditions of sweatshops cross the line and infringe on universal human…
Phenomenon “Sweatshops have built up economies and industry all around the world. Throughout recent history there have been isolated events in which the issue of sweatshops and labor standards has taken centre stage in the media and government, states Amanda Wilson.” Sweatshops have evolved immensely over the past decades. The 19th Century and the 20th Century were not run by the apparel industry; such as now in the 21st. The consumption of clothing and material things has made sweatshops what they…
start looking at the labels of the goods we buy because people are being treated harshly/exploited for the production of these goods. In addition the government has a low-wage strategy plan to in fact lower our wages in the long run if we let this sweatshop outrageousness proceed, and furthermore we will eventually end up destroying mankind with these immoral ways of treating others. Globalization is defined in the Global Issues Local Arguments book by June Johnson as the “increasing interconnectedness…
Apple sweatshop scandal date: 24/03/2015-present Intro ex #1: Apple has always been a very successful company. It’s a very popular corporation and with it has a high demand. How do they keep up with these high demands? Sweatshops. Intro ex #2: While many of us are eager to receive the next generation of iPhones and iPads and iMacs, the builders of these products aren’t (as eagers?). Imagine working in such terrible conditions that you would rather die than keep working. That is the state that…
globalisation. As Giddens (2001, pp.137-140) stated there are three perspectives on globalisation: sceptics, hyperglobalizers and transformationalists. Transformationalists think that globalisation influences various of different sides of people’s life other than changing the world circumstance, while sceptics focus on the changing in the world and hyperglobalizers argue that globalisation is just for economics and can forecast the ending point (Giddens, 2001, pp.137-140). Compared with these, there…
quality of life. However there are many people of this percentage that have a job in a sweatshop where they are treated very poorly, and paid very less. In this source, the point of view is from a person who supports neo liberalism and industrialization and assumes that the quality of life will get better and will help the southern citizen’s rise above poverty. The sources has some good points but many points could also counter the source. Though industrialization will help the quality of life it will…
I think that if the company hires illegal workers, then they should take responsible for them. If the company doesn’t take care of them, I do really see a big difference between what that and a sweatshop. I think that if the company takes the risk to hire a person, then they should cover that person should they get injured. There is too much to risk if they don’t. The person could report the company. There would of course get in trouble for being an illegal worker, but they could drag the company…
Imagine yourself forced into having to work long hours for a very low pay, regardless of a minimum wage or an overtime pay. You must work many hours, but do not receive benefits. This unfair act has been happening for many years. It is currently in the act at this very moment. Many people are unaware that even though they do not agree with this, they are supporting this cause. Child labor has a part of our lives because we buy their products. Child labor is currently active in third world countries…
Industry Paper Li Li Labor rights in the fashion industry The product life cycle of the clothing begins with design, raw material, fabric production, manufacturing, transport and finally to the hands of the consumers. Because of the complexity of the industry, there are many key CSR issues involved, such as the quality of the cotton used, waste management and environmental impact of the production. For the purpose of this paper, I would focus on the labor issue. The fashion industry could…
