Work Environment conditions According to me Nike should not be wholly responsible for the working conditions in some of the Asian countries, because Nike completely do not own the factories. The work and the manufacturing are subcontracted to a local or domestic company in that particular country. Although Nike may be technically removed from responsibility in some areas, it clearly has the obligation to be certain that exploitation by subcontractors do not occur. As a world’s biggest and largest
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Science fiction literature usually deals with worlds that are different from our own and the consequences of change as a result of new scientific technologies, discoveries, or different social systems. It is the only genre that shows an outsider’s viewpoint on how a society could run in a different manner, allowing us to envision a desirable future and evaluate ways to work towards it or it advises us of the future we should steer clear of and aids us in ways of avoiding it. Science fiction is
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The US Department of Labor defines a sweatshop as being a factory that violates two or more labor laws. Sweat shops in America slip under the radar but are not as common as those in under developed countries. This being said many of the successful fashion companies utililize sweatshop labor from the under developed countries. One of the largest sweat shop capitals is located in Indonesia, where women and children are forced to work unreasonable hours and paid unfair wages with poor working conditions
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the English language— therefore, the English language has many derivatives from multiple other languages. Immigrants were willing to work in terrible job conditions for little pay, and they took the jobs that most Americans did not want to do. Sweatshops, textile factories, and railroad construction were a few of the jobs mainly employed by immigrants. Some industries such as railroad and mining companies brought immigrants to America to exploit them for their labor. In doing these actions, jobs
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Introduction Fast fashion is no long a strange word for people. Originally, only traditional fashion exists in fashion industry. But then another trend, which researchers called it as “Fast Fashion”, rose up since 1990s. First of all, it’s necessary to know the difference between the traditional fashion and fast fashion. Traditional fashion always has two seasonal collections which are introduced to consumer market. The price of products is relatively higher than fast fashioned products. According
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Is a Scholarship Enough? There are approximately 319 million people living in the United States, but there are approximately 482 million people in China that work in sweatshops. These people make less than two dollars a day. Often times hundreds of people are working in one big room, smells of sweat, tears, and a low sense of moral fill the air. We are talking about hard working people that work hard for their money, but get treated so poorly. A hardworking man goes and clocks in to make a better
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Organizational Behavior and Communication Paper COM/530 Communications for Accountants Anne Mechail July 21, 2014 Professor Allen Sutton Organizational Behavior and Communication Paper Major organizations have two sets of values: espoused values and enacted values. An organization’s espoused values include their philosophy, mission, vision, and value statements. These are what the organization values. What the company actually does are its enacted values. This paper will briefly describe
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Q2. Talking about Nike contracting with factories, known as “sweatshops”, which is the worst inhumane form of workshop in East Asian context, across developing countries in Asia since 1990s, what is stunning is the recurrent of such saga. Sources of criticism ranging from publications (Naomi Klein’s book “No Logo”) to international broadcasted documentaries (by Michael Moore, and by BBC), and news agency articles (Associated Press) and numerous academic research. The BBC documentary and the AP
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Often the issues which arises under “Business Ethics” relate to ethical behaviour of businesses overseas in poorer countries. The main issues are: Bribery of foreign officials, corruption, human rights violations in newly industrialising countries (sweatshops) and environmental pollution of host countries. * It is sometimes argued that ethics is nothing to do with business, acting ethically is only justified if it promotes the organisations best interest (Profit and the share price). * Ivan
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