1. Discuss the challenges regarding corporate social responsibility that companies in the apparel industry face in their supply chains around the world: The apparel industry faces many challenges in regards to corporate social responsibility in their supply chains around the world. Today factories in Asia and Africa are suffering from abusive treatment and unsafe working conditions. Statistics suggest that between 25% and 50% of factories treat their workers as nothing more than means of generating
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highlighted the issue of work treatment & conditions by Nike. In addition, workers were underpaid & punished for refusing overtime. At this level, the ethicality of the companies are being challenged, with varying legal and cultural limits across borders. The main question a company should answer is how should their ethical standard be based? Should it based on the home country or the host country or can it be reconciled? If the company ignores its ethical responsibility to workers, how will that
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the new Euro-statehood and among the migrants who fight a practical fight against the EU’s neo-colonial border regime. However, a new, disenchanted character of cosmopolitanism is emerging here, marked less by ethics than by the pragmatism of crossing borders. Migrant border research “If you want to go to Hungary, cross the unmanned border to Austria and get yourself arrested; if the border police ask which countries you passed through to get to Austria, say Hungary and you will be taken there
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Mexico, land rich in history and culture, is located on the northern border of the United States. Throughout the last decade and a half Mexico has struggled to maintain a stable economy, all the while trying to control the trafficking of drugs and humans across the American border. The U.S. Department of State website (2010) states Mexico is classified by the World Bank as an upper-middle-income country. Poverty is widespread (around 44% of the population lives below the poverty line) and high
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One of this week's essays is The WatchTheMed Alarm Phone: A Disobedient Border-Intervention by Maurice Stierl. In this essay we are provided with an overview and explanation of the Alarm Phone which is an emergency phone line used for those who happen to be in distress out at sea. In 2014 various activists, volunteers, and human rights groups came together to form the Alarm Phone as a way to aid in the freedom of mobility for all. Stierl explains, “the activists regard the Alarm Phone as a political
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Architectural Layer Standards The CAD Layer Guidelines are organized as hierarchy. This arrangement accommodates expansion and addition 0f user-defined extensions to the layer list. Layer names are alphanumeric and use abbreviations that are easy to remember. This legibility is particularly important when CAD files are distributed among architects, consultants, and clients. Layer names consist of a Discipline Code-Major Group-Minor Group-Status Field. The format for the CAD Standard is as follows:
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of the experience of other ethnic groups interacting with mainstream American culture. Exploring the aesthetics of border narratives in the way Anzaldùa constructs it together with the mechanisms of stereotyping and the politics of ethnic identity representations she opts for urges a new conception of the literary creation situated in-between multiple ideological and symbolic borders. The hybrid construct around which the rhetoric of boder is built becomes dialogic: it witnesses the presence of mainstream
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org/1841-1850-westwardexpansion/westwardexpansion.htm). There were many factors that lead up to the Westward Expansion. For example, an overflowing population, the government opens new land (i.e. Louisiana Purchase), Pacific expansion, and finally seeking expansion beyond borders all lead up to the Westward expansion. Also, there is a vase amount of impacts that the Western Expansion had on America and its people. Overflowing Population Many people think major increase in population is good
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Globalization for the little guy Digitization has opened the door for emerging economies, small businesses, and individuals to participate directly in globalization. January 2016 | byJames Manyika and Susan Lund More than 20,000 independent designers and artists showcase their work on Pinkoi, a Taiwan-based online marketplace. The company has connected with customers in more than 47 countries, using Facebook to expand its reach throughout the Asia–Pacific region. The Estonian start-up coModule
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Kaydeon Burnett Professor Jim McCarty December 14, 2015 Final Paper “International Business is any commercial transaction that crosses the border of two or more nations.” This class of international business has truly been a great deal of help to me in pursuing my degree in Business Management. When I first enrolled in this class I was a bit skeptical about how I would learn such a potentially difficult subject without being in a classroom, however I truly learned a lot. With an international
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