...subjected to work in abysmal conditions in comparison to the Chinese. In contrast to Chinese immigrants, the Issei (Japanese Immigrants) were well educated upon their arrival to California. Japanese immigrants viewed themselves as the ‘superior race above all Asians’. This portrayal was an influential factor that spawned the inception of the first farm workers union in California history. Although, due to racial barriers and increased pressure by organized labor unions, several Issei were viewed as “strangers” as they were barricaded from factory and office jobs. As a result, they were involuntarily restricted to menial labor industries in railroads, agriculture, coal mining, smelting, meatpacking and salt (Almaguer,...
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...Wired Money: The Rise of Information Capitalism in California California, Silicon Valley, the home of technical innovations, websites, and social media with companies such as Apple, Google, and Facebook. Our present day birth place of every technological advancement industries in the country, and probably the world. For every possible future computer scientist, informational technologist, computer engineers, and many other skilled technicians, it’s their ideal location to thrive, to build their life, and career at. In other words, it’s the Holy Grail of technological industrial location in Northern California. Whenever we mention or hear about Northern California, most of the time we would think of Silicon Valley and its technological industries....
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...world nation to find a sweatshop as they are very prevalent in California and New York. Sweatshops exist because large retailers don’t produce their own clothing. They hire manufactures to coordinate production, and the manufactures typically enter into contracts that require quick turnaround. Sweatshops in America produce a big portion of the shirts, dresses, blouses, and skirts on the shelves of big American retailers. Retailers often claim they are unaware of the conditions in which their clothes are produced. The retailer reaps the benefits of this labor; without, taking responsibility of the cheap production. Sweatshops are back in America because in recent decades, many garment manufacturers have moved overseas and unions have become less powerful. Devastating budget cuts severely limited the U.S. Department of Labor policing of garment factories. There are now only 800 wage, and hour inspectors employed by the Department of Labor. They inspect six million work sites of all kinds in the USA making it easy to avoid inspection. It is estimated that 4,500 of New York’s 7,000 garment factories are sweatshops. These sweatshops are often mobile operations, making them even more difficult to regulate. The only equipment that is really needed is a few sewing machines making it easy to move. A typical sweatshop worker endures long hours including some overnights if an order needs to be completed. Workers are pressured to work very fast, encouraged not to drink water...
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...A Disappointed California, Which Tells Lie Everyone has his own dream. What is a dream for you? Does it come true for you? I believe that every person’s dream is to get better lives such as better cars, opportunities, and education in the life. People move one place to another place to get better lives as their dreams. Most of people think that America is the best place in the world, especially California. Some peoples’ hopes become true but many hopes do not come true. Some are upper class people who have their own business in their own country and their lives totally change to employee when they come to California. They have no chance not to come to California. So they have to leave their business and come to California. California provides the dream of having a better life. In contract, California is a lie and disappointed place for people whom immigrate to California because many things make people’s history disappear, people about segregation and have short lives by Americans and people have poor lives in California. History is vey important for every nationality. Everyone should know about his/her background and country history. But now most of children have lack of their own history. It is really disappointed for grandparents and parents. Many Vietnamese people immigrate and build a new life in the United States during the Vietnam War. The reason people from Vietnam run to the United States was if they continued living in Vietnam, they had less chance to survive in their...
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...Chinese immigration in the 1850s was when majority of Chinese workers all migrated to the united states to work in the gold mines, not only did they work in the gold mines they did a lot in agricultural, factory, and garment industry jobs. When the railroads were being built in the united states the Chinese immigrants were a key part for it being built, they were very successful doing that. By them being very successful by the end of them building the railroad a lot of Chinese immigrants became entrepreneurs, then the number of Chinese laborers went up and they were then threatened by the American economy because they wanted to limit the amount of work the Chinese got. This then lead to the Chinese exclusion act which took place around the same time...
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...Many were working in farming and citrus groves, but were unable to buy land as it prevented all Asians from owning land so they were left with the option of leasing land. While some Koreans were farmers once they started to get adjusted to the country and saved up enough money they started to own their own businesses, much like the Chinese immigrants they set up restaurants, tailor shops and laundromats as they were easy to set up and maintain. Housing communities of immigrants were established as they weren’t allowed to live in town with white people and had to live in the outskirts with other immigrants and minorities which established a family as they each helped one another. While many of the Korean immigrants were men and weren't making enough money to return to their home countries they had no other choice but to stay in the United...
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...Asian American Population Project Name:_Janice Reynolds_Unit 6, Korn_Leslie_ Capella University COUNS 5334 March 14, 2011 Janice Reynolds Abstract This Asian American Population project will critically evaluate the theories, methods and research in cross-cultural awareness that relates to the Asian American Population. This Asian American Population project t will analyzed the influence of culture on attitudes, values, perceptions, human behavior and the interpersonal relations to the Asian American Population. The writer will identify potential problem that Asian Americans encounter in a pluralistic society such as the United States of America. The personal competencies will be identified and analyzed to improve interaction with Asians American within a counseling professional setting. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Title Page 1 2. Abstract 2 3. Introduction 4 4. Define Asian American 5 5. Historical Antecedents 6 6. Potential Problems 7 7. Educational Reflection 8 8. Personal Competencies 8 10. Theories Identity Formation 9 11. Action Plan 10 12. References 11 13. Annotated Bibliography 12 In Espiritu (1992) as the United States becomes an increasingly diverse society, the need for understanding the psychological impact of the immigrant and second-generation experience...
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...Analysis of Global Production Networks within Consumer Electronic Industry. Introduction A diagnostic characteristic of contemporary globalization is that the component parts of the world economy are increasingly interconnected in qualitatively different ways from the past. Another way of saying this is that the world economy consists of tangled webs of production circuits and networks that cut through, and across, all geographical scales, including the bounded territory of the state. It is too simple to just define the global production networks, that involving a process of production, distribution and consumption of commodities, goods and services, as technical-economic mechanisms (Coe, Dicken and Hess, 2008). More than this oversimplified conceptual framework, Levy (2008) argues GPN as ‘simultaneously economic and political phenomena . . . organizational fields in which actors struggle over the construction of economic relationships, governance structures, institutional rules and norms, and discursive frames . . . GPNs thus exist within the ‘‘transnational space’’ that is constituted and structured by transnational elites, institutions, and ideologies’. In Levy’s theory, we can find out that more than a economic process of productions, GPNs is also a ‘social’ and ‘cultural’ phenomena in which the geographically differentiated political and social cultural circumstance are also shaped (Coe, Dicken and Hess, 2008). Considering the consumer electronic industry in particular...
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...Gerri Bednarcyk Ch 1 Assign - Business Now: Change is the Only Constant Respond to these questions in a Word document. You do not have to include the question, but make sure to number the response. You need to use complete sentences and correct grammar. Once you have answered all the questions, save it as Chapter 1 – [your name] and upload it as an attachment. Watch the lecture video: Make sure you have read Chapter 1 and have posted in the discussion forum. 1. What factors contribute to the rapid pace of change in business? Is the pace likely to accelerate or decrease over the next decade? Why? The factors that contribute to the rapid pace of change in business are Human Resources, Capital, Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Technology. The factors are more than likely to increase because all factors listed are increasing at a fast pace. I feel that factors are increasing because they are definitely in high demand at this time in our economy. 2. Explain the term "business". A business is any organization or activity that provides goods and services in an effort to earn a profit. Businesses are leading in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and ran to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit or state-owned 3. Explain the role of business in the economy. The economies of the country depends upon the employment provided by big and small businesses and produces the goods and provide...
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...differentiation. Logitech does basic R&D work primarily software programming Switzerland where it has 200 employees. The company is still legally Swiss, but the corporate headquarters are in Fremont, California, close to many of America’s high-technology enterprises, where it has 450 employees. Some R&D work (again, primarily software programming) is also carried out in Fremont. Most significantly, though, Fremont is the headquarters for the company’s global marketing, finance, and logistics operations. The ergonomic design of Logitech’s products- their look and feel – is done in Ireland by an outside design firm. Most of the Logitech’s products are manufactured in Asia. Logitech’s expansion into Asian manufacturing began in the late 1980s when it opened a factory in Taiwan to attract customers such as Apple. Logitech not only needed the capacity to produce at high volume and low cost, but it also had to offer a better designed product. The solution: manufacture in Taiwan. Cost was a factor in the decision, but it was not as significant as might be expected, since direct labor accounted for only 7% of the cost of Logitech’s mouse. Taiwan offered a well-developed supply base for parts, qualified people, and a rapidly expanding local computer industry. After the Apple contract, Logitech’s other OEM business started being served from...
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...International Management, 7e (Deresky) Chapter 1: Assessing the Environment Political, Economic, Legal, Technological 1) Which of the following is characterized by networks of international linkages that bind countries, institutions, and people in an interdependent global economy? D) globalization 2) All of the following factors contribute to globalization EXCEPT ________. C) higher number of trade restrictions 3) Which of the following is the most highly globalized in regards to economic integration, technological connectivity, personal contact, and political engagement? A) Singapore 4) Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are ________. C) contributing to their national economies through exporting 5) Gayle Warwick Fine Linen owes its success as a global business primarily to the firm's ________. B) labor outsourcing in Vietnam 6) Which of the following are the three dominant currencies in the world today? C) Euro, Japanese yen, U.S. dollar 7) Most of today's world trade takes place in which three trade blocs? C) European Union, Asia, and the Americas 8) The European Union currently consists of how many nations? B) 27 9) Which of the following is NOT one of the Four Tigers? D) Thailand 10) Which of the following best explains China's success in exporting? A) low costs and steady stream of capital 11) Which of the following is NOT a true statement about India? A) India's biggest contributor to growth is its excellent infrastructure. 12) India's economic boom is most likely...
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...behaviors is inconsistent with Casse's profile of successful American negotiators? A.Refusing to make concessions in advance B.Exhibiting a good sense of timing C.Being quiet and not arguing D.Understanding the issues Click here to Download MGT 538 Final Exam 3) Dell most likely offshores product support service jobs to India because of the A.superior technical knowledge of Indian workers B.extensive call center experience of Indian workers C.lower payroll costs associated with Indian workers D.customer preference for interacting with Indian workers 4) In the context of doing business in Asia, what is meant by the phrase "the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper"? A.Asian contracts are not legally binding for MNCs. B.Contracts are ceremoniously destroyed after they are written. C.Managers risk being offensive to Asians by requiring contracts. D.Managers should nurture the relationship to ensure the reliability of the contract. 5) The ________ model of leadership style has been recommended by American research studies as one more likely to have positive results with American employees. A.autocratic B.charismatic...
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...fare share of controversies over the years is Nike. Nike employs approximately 26,000 people worldwide. In addition, approximately 650,000 workers are employed in Nike contracted factories around the globe. More than 75% of these work in Asia, predominantly in China, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea and Malaysia (Nike 2006). In 1998 Nike came under fire for the sweatshop conditions of the workers in the Nike factories in China and other third world countries. The evidence showed that the workers were regularly subject to physical punishment and sexual abuse and exposed to dangerous chemicals. (Nike Accused of Lying About Asian Factories 1998). Sub standard working facilities, bare minimum wages and risks to health of labourers mark NIKE factories in Asia. The firm was also accused of practicing child labour in Pakistan. So the question now is, why did it happen, and more importantly, has anything been done since to correct it. So why did it happen? Well that is quite clear. The reason why most firms outsource their activities to lesser developed countries is to exploit cheaper labour and production costs. Nike has a brand reputation worldwide, and in-fact is a market leader in the sales of athletic shoes. The constant focus is to formulate ways and strategies to reduce production costs, and one way of that is fewer wages to the workers. The high unemployment levels in the third world countries, as well as the desperation for people to be employed, in any kind of work, allows...
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...their income as a nation. A ‘TNC’ is a company that operates in at least two countries. They often have management headquarters in their home country and operate in host countries alongside; examples would include GlaxoSmithKline, BP, Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola. NICs are having a prominent impact on sculpting the global economy. They are characterised by the fact that they are gaining an increasing share of the world manufacturing output, a significant growth in their manufactured export production and a significant annual growth in their manufacturing sector. The first generation of NICs were, given their geographical location, known as the ‘Asian Tigers’ – Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore. The impact of NICs is global; the 21st century is arguably an era of global economic independence. The growth model of the Asian Tigers has been criticised. They have not followed the typical model of import substitution with an aim of becoming self-sufficient, instead they have...
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...General Motors General Motors Corporation has failed to adequately respond to shifts in its general and competitive environments. We will argue that past success led to over-confident management and inertia, causing lack of foresight in anticipating change, and causing it to undertake obligations that now constrain its ability to react. We will first introduce GM’s traditional business strategy, and what its position is relative to its competitors. Then, we will describe GM’s global, economic, demographic, political/legal, sociocultural and technological environments, showing how GM has fallen behind in each. Each section will end with a discussion of how the environmental changes in question have impacted GM’s position in its competitive enviroment, ultimately leading to its current state of poor sales and near-bankruptcy. We believe GM’s management now needs to be proactive in rectifying its current situation, instead of adopting short-term, stop-gap measures. GM’s traditional strategy is to have a full array of cars, trucks and minivans for each of its brands[1]. It has particularly relied on big cars and trucks – like SUVs, the GMC Yukon and the Chevy Tahoe[2] - as opposed to direct competitors like Toyota, that are known for smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. Also, GM follows the core assumption that job satisfaction leads to profits[3]. This strategy worked well for GM in the past when it controlled the greatest share in the auto market. Between the 1930s and...
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