...sandwich factory In the short-story The Sandwich Factory by Jason Kennedy, we are shown the negative sides of the work in a factory. We get an insight through an unnamed narrator. The narrator works, obviously, at a sandwich factory. The theme of the story is very vague, if existing at all. What might be a clue to the theme is that the work that is being done at the factory is something a machine easily could do, so something with the view of factory workers. It isn’t really the best job he could think of, but after being fired from the last one, he takes the job at the factory even though the pay is bad. The narrator seems like a rather intelligent person in contradiction to the ones you find at factories; he listens to Joy Division and read novels originally written in Japan, which tells me that he is too clever to be fit for the monotonous work the factory provides him with. This certainly isn’t his goal in life. As the story is told from the eyes of the narrator, it is also tainted with his views and thoughts. We know the narrator is a man as he says, “I had zero confidence with women anyway” in line 96, and the elderly lady at the factory, Dot wishes to find a girl for him amongst the female workers. Again we see the narrator differing from the rest of the workers, as he allows himself to be shy towards girls instead of looking down their tops (lines 109-110 ). He is more humane. I think we are given a picture of what happens if you should happen to stay in the factory for too...
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...into a situation where the only place they afford to live is next to factories. And they are paying the cost in their health. I’ve heard many stories about pollution issues in Richmond, and I always wonder why these residents decided to live there at the first place and why they still live there. I learned from the article the reason was much more historical than that I thought. People started to move to Richmond before WWII. There was racism and people in color especially African Americans could not live in certain neighborhoods. Simply they did not have a choice. Also from this article I saw that because Richmond is such a poor neighborhood, it seems like the society even don’t care about the fact so many residents are suffering from pollutions. After some toxic air pollution incident, no one came to check up on their health. It looks to me that the society don’t value the residents’ life or health. In addition, this article reminds me of the news report that I’ve read a while ago. It said that it’s very expensive for factories to reduce pollutions so large corporations chose to pay fines to the government instead of solving these issues. I understand businesses are always looking for ways to reduce expenses, but these unethical behaviors of corporations need to be stopped. And I didn’t see the companies in Richmond are reaching out to help these people who are suffering from toxic pollution from their factories. 2. How does it relate to one or more environmental health...
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...Name of case: THE DHAKA FACTORY FIRE November 24, 2012 Background: Opened in 2009, the Tazreen Fashion factory, part of the Tuba group, employed 1,630 workers, who produced T-shirts, polo shirts and jackets. The factory produced clothes for various companies, including the US Marines, Dutch company C&A, American company Walmart and Hong Kong company Li & Fung. The Tuba group is a major exporter of garments from Bangladesh to the U.S., Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, whose clients include Walmart, Carrefour and IKEA. According to Tazreen Fashions' web site, the factory was flagged in May 2011 with an "orange" grade by a Walmart ethical sourcing official for "violations and/or conditions which were deemed to be high risk". The notice said that any factory receiving three such assessments in two years would not receive Walmart orders for one year. The orange rating was the first the company had received, and was followed by a "yellow" medium risk rating the following August, which pertained to the factory where the fire occurred. On November 25, a Walmart spokesman said he was "so far unable to confirm that Tazreen is a supplier to Walmart nor if the document referenced in the article is in fact from Walmart"; the company subsequently terminated its relationship with Tazreen, stating that "The Tazreen factory [in Ashulia] was not authorized to produce merchandise for Walmart. A supplier subcontracted work to this factory without authorization and in direct...
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...5 December, 2011 Factory Farms: Meatiocre Food When a person is eating a hamburger and thinks about where it came from, he or she probably imagines a healthy cow grazing in a luscious green pasture. Unfortunately, this is the present, and free-roaming animals used for their meat are a thing of the past. Today, a vast majority of the livestock and poultry purchased comes from animals that live in a small space their entire life, and never get to see the light of day. The places that house these tortured animals have come to be known as “factory farms”. In the 1920s, an astonishing discovery was made by a group of scientists – Vitamins A and D. Farmers eventually learned that if they put these two vitamins into the animals’ feed, then exercise and sunlight would not be required for these animals to grow. With factory farmers not having to let their livestock and poultry roam freely, they started to fill up the factory with as many animals as possible, and could keep their businesses running year round. However, with the tightly packed areas, diseases were plentiful. With science constantly managing to find new discoveries, scientists concocted antibiotics specifically for these diseases in the 1940s. Society is quick to jump on somebody when they treat somebody like a piece of garbage, but they simply turn their heads when this happens to animals. Farmers had found a way to increase productivity and lower operating costs and this was by using an assembly line. Basically,...
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...The Sandwich Factory A) The short story "The Sandwich Factory" is written by Jason Kennedy and deals with a man’s experiences doing a low-paid job at a sandwich factory. It tells the story of how the man needs to be able to deal with a lot of things about himself and other people, to do the work and concentrate about it. We get a very good insight into his situation, but it is very much marked by his personal thoughts about it, and therefore it becomes more or less useless for us to relate to. It is very obvious that this man doesn’t like his job, and we even get the feeling that he doesn’t like his life either. To begin with the story takes place in the sandwich factory, where he works. He introduces us to some of the people he works with. In the end of the story we have a situation not happening in the factory, but in his car as he drives a girl home. At the end we are back at the factory. The main character seems to be a guy who doesn’t like his life. He is very pessimistic, which is seen in the way he reacts on different things in life, and in the way he doesn’t believe in himself: "I had zero confidence with women anyway […]" (l. 96) It is very obvious that he doesn’t have any self-confidence, as he speaks badly about everyone around him - even his job. The factory is described as a horrible place, and the narrator seems to have a lot of fun thinking about how he thinks the managers have been taught in ‘schools’: "Remember, never look confused. […] Instead use anger...
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...Evidence from these documents show that textile factories were not safe for working class families. As Dr. Ward said “We could not remain ten minutes in the factory without gasping for breath.” (House Of Lords interview with Dr. Ward) What Dr. Ward says in this first quote shows the living conditions were bad because of how poor air conditions were. Another quote from Dr. Ward, “They are really nurseries of disease and vice.”(House Of Lords interview with Dr. Ward) The second quote shows that people would get diseased and die from working there. Even as John Birley said, “No time was allowed for breakfast and no sitting for dinner.”(The Ashton Chronicle 19th may 1849)The third quote shows that they had really bad eating conditions which proves...
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...for its people. In addition to the technological advances, British factories faced a cultural change among the workforce testing social norms of the time. The centralization and mechanized advances in manufacturing lead to dramatic change in the social and economic aspects of British life. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the production of textiles took place in cottages across the city often by women and children with little to no supervision. The cottage operation affords the family-worker a long, healthy life due to small overhead costs and manageable workload. Social graces at the time, necessitated the male supervisor be married, meeting proper decorum among men and women of the small cottage operation. While production costs in the...
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...NIKE AND ITS FACTORIES IN VIETNAM THE CONTEXT OF THE ISSUE In order to offer competitive prices, a lot of Western companies relocate in low-wages countries. Nike is not unique in that respect: in fact the company choose to use subcontracted factories in Asia, especially in Vietnam. It is important to put this trend in context: this particular industry (the footwear industry) know a significant growth since two decades. Vietnam has a very high unemployment rate, which reflects the poor economic situation of the country. In this perspective it can be said that Nike factories are essential for Vietnam’s economy, because it offers plenty of jobs. In the 1990s some allegations were made that accused Nike of mistreating its Vietnamese workers. Nike tried to justify these local problems by the fact that cultural differences in South-East Asia make American management more difficult for the company. This was part of its explanation justifying its unethical behavior. WHAT IS IN STAKE AND AT WHICH LEVEL The problem was raised when people started to criticize Nike’s behavior. They acted publicly: college students asked their sport teams to drop Nike’s products, politicians signed petitions, web-sites against Nike were created… What enabled them to act what the researches done about Nike behavior: reports published had revealed information. Here we can notice different values in conflict. Profit, represented by big firms, would be one value, and the importance of ethical...
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...fighters all night to put out the flames. This event leads to 111 garment workers dying in the flames, and many others sent to hospitals for burn treatments and smoke inhalation. Bangladesh women are paid low wages and work long hours. “Bangladesh 20 billion a year business that represents seventy-eight of the poor country’s exports and employees four million people.” In the Triangle shirtwaist factory most of the workers employed were women. Similar to the fire at the Tazreen factory, the factory had few fire escapes and disregarded safety measures. The Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City, the factory was located in the cramped SoHo neighborhoods Owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist did not make the factory safe because it was not cost effective on their part. In fact the girls at the Triangle shirtwaist factory where penalized for broken needles and mistakes. If a worker got hurt he or she must continue working till the workday was done. The Triangle shirtwaist factory workers worked long hours usually 12 hour days, for only 15 dollars a week. Most of the girls working in the factory were teenaged immigrants that barely even spoke English. These women had no say in what was right. They needed the...
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...Workers in the 1800s did not have luxury we have today. The workers back then had no retirement plans, no sicks days, and no worker rights. The owners wanted to keep their profits high so their ran their factories as cheaply as possible. Some examples in the text are,”Some cut costs by requiring workers to buy their own tools or to bring coal to heat the factories. Others refused to buy safety equipment. “ Other examples of neglecting the needs of the workers aare, “... factory and sweatshop owners kept wages low. In the 1880s, the average weekly wage was less than $10. This barely paid a family’s expenses. If a worker missed work due to illness or had any unexpected bills, the family went into debt.” The worker did not takes this without...
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...THE FACTORIES ACT, 1965 [Act No IV of 1965] September 1, 1965 An act to repeal and, with certain amendments, re-enact the Factories Act 1934 (XXV of 1934) CHAPTER I.- PRELIMINARY Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Factories Act, 1965. (2) It extends to the whole of Bangladesh. (3) It shall come into force at once. Section 2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, - * (a) 'adolescent' means a person who has completed sixteen years but has not completed eighteen years of age; * (b) 'adult' means a person who has completed eighteen years of age; * (c) 'child' means a person who has not completed sixteen years of age; * (d) 'day' means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at mid-night; * (e) 'explosive substance' includes any materials for making any explosive substance; * (f) 'factory' means any premises including the precincts thereof whereon ten or more workers are working or were working on any day of the preceding twelve months and in any part of which a manufacturing process is being carried on with or without the aid of power, but does not include a mine subject to the operation of the Mines Act, 1923 (IV of 1923). Notes.- The word "premises" ordinarily includes lands and "precincts" means the "limit, bound or exterior line encompassing a place." In order to make it a factory, it is not necessary that the workers should be continuously...
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...Farm factory This documentary awakens many feelings inside me. I am so concerned about this fact and to have learned and saw how it actually happens, I think that more than one could be saddened about it. Animals feed us, in fact it is their fundamental goal, the reason they are created. I believe we should be thankful and deliver some respect. They are inferior beings but they should not be cruelty treated. They do not have our rationality and cannot defend themselves against us. Besides the fact that they give their meat and derivatives from it, we humans abuse their generosity. They also have the right to live and die decently. I am not voting for becoming vegetarians all the way, but to change the industry for farm animals. Laws should be created in order to follow a certain procedure with a higher quality standard of living for these animals in the factory. Also, to support these farms caring for the lives of animals. In the documentary, we clearly can see that they have feelings and they also can feel the pain and desperation to learn that they are going to be killed. It also hurts us, those that care about them. I am extremely concerned about this issue, it makes me not eat meat anymore but that is not the point. In fact, I have always cared much about animals, sometimes even more than caring about a person. The way I see it’s that animals cannot defend themselves, and somehow humans have the ability to do that, to speak out, but animals do not. I have saved lives of...
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...Children working in factories at such a young age is horrible.Therefore the industrial revolution harmed many children while it lasted rather than helped them.For example in an interview with Dr.Ward it stated “the state of health of cotton factory is much worse than that of children employed in other manufactories” (House of Lords with Dr.Ward).In the quote it clearly shows that children working in cotton factories have a higher risk to getting hurt than children working in other types of factories.Also in a book written by Edward Baines it says”labour in mills are victims of frightful oppression and killing too”,this shows that kills also cause oppression(History of Cotton Manufacture by Edward Baines). Also children working at the mill...
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...Running head: BMW'S DREAM FACTORY AND CULTURE BMW's Dream Factory and Culture BUS/520 BMW's Dream Factory and Culture BMW, with more than $60 billion in sales, is much smaller than its American rivals. However, the U.S. auto giants could still learn some things from BMW (Reh, n.d., para.1). BMW’s culture could be considered one driven highly by teamwork. BMW’s 106,000 employees have become a network of committed associates with few hierarchical barriers to hinder innovations. Individuals from all levels of BMW work side by side. Which creates informal networks where even the most unorthodox ideas for making better Bimmers or boosting profits can be voiced? The difference at BMW is that managers don’t think they have all the right answers, their jobs are to ask the right questions (Reh, n.d., para. 2). Leadership is the process of developing ideas and a vision, living by values that support those ideas and that vision, influencing other to embrace them in their own behaviors, and making hard decisions about human and other resources. The model of leadership used at BMW would be one of delegate style where the leader permits the team to make the decisions within prescribed limits (Hellriegel, & Slocum, 2010). A good example of this model/style being used would be when the demand for the 1 Series compact soared, plant manager Peter Claussen volunteered to temporarily use the brand new factory in Leipzig, Germany which had be designed for the 3...
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...What's better than burgers on the grill, or crispy bacon with breakfast? To most Americans, nothing. In fact, in 2012, Americans consumed approximately 50 billion burgers and 627 million pounds of bacon. Contrary to popular belief, all this meat is not raised on Old McDonald's farm ("Factory-Farming.com", 2010-2015). As arable land has declined over the last 100 years along with farmers as a percentage of the U.S. population, factory farms have taken their place ("How is Land in The United States Used? A Focus on Agricultural Land", n.d.). However, while factory farms produce more food optimizing economies of scale, modern technologies, and genetic engineering, factory farming more often than not incorporate abusive treatment to the animals. Factory Farming is an inhumane way of producing meat and dairy products due to its common practices of confined living conditions, wide usage of antibiotics and genetic engineering, and slaughterhouse practices. One of the most common forms of animal cruelty in factory farms is the overcrowded and confined living areas of the animals. Chickens are the most confined animal in Factory Farming with up to 120,000 birds on one farm. (Madhani, 2015). Both egg-laying hens and fryer chickens are housed in “battery cages”. Battery cages hold between five and ten hens with each hen allotted between 67 - 76 sq. inches (less than the size of a standard sheet of letter paper). Being confined to such a small area creates multiple physical and mental...
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