Exploitation of Workers In China: Analyze with suicides of Foxconn Abstract As globalization affected the whole world, the contradiction between leaders and labors has become a world-wide problem. In China, a series of employees’ suicides attracted the public and media’s concentration to consider this problem. A Taiwanese electronics corporation, is acting as the protagonist in this issue and now earning an internationally notorious reputation of running sweatshops. This paper analyze the cause
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HS3018: Sociology of Gender Research Question: How migrant Chinese women cope with life in Singapore. As a migrant nation, the issue of immigration has always been an immanent theme in Singapore. In recent years, migrant workers in Singapore have come under scrutiny due to the scale at which foreigners are entering the country, with almost 1.5 million non-residents living in Singapore making up more than a quarter of our population of 5.4 million (Ministry of Manpower, 2013) of which many are
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ABSTRACT A domestic worker is a person who works within the employer’s household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family, from providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance, known as housekeeping. Responsibilities may also include cooking, doing laundry and ironing, food shopping and other household errands. Some domestic workers live within the household where they work. At its 301st Session (March 2008)
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Falls in Construction Every foreman or construction site manager recognizes the importance of providing workers with fall protection equipment and educating them about dangerous situations in their industry, particularly when heights are involved. Yet, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the most common fatal injuries on already-hazardous construction sites, falls claim the most lives each year. While the number of fatal falls have declined since the 2007 high of 847, (Gary,2012)
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environmentally suited in the growth of tomato when compared their agricultural counterparts in Mexico. To supliment Florida’s demographic uselessness, land farm workers take artificial measures, injecting chemical fertilizer into the soil. Once grown, these plants are subjected to blasting with a plethora pesticides. As a result, migrant workers who labor in fields risk constant exposure to deadly
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Excerpt from Jane Holgate published in 2005. It is titled Organizing migrant workers: a case study of working conditions and unionization in a London sandwich factory and published in Work Employment Society volume 19, on pages 463-480. Food-to-Go: the company and profile of the workforce Over the last decade the sandwich industry has become a global business with an expanding market currently (2004) thought to be worth around US$50 billion dollars a year (BBC, 2004). Food-to-Go (a pseudonym
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The Bahamas, like most countries, is encumbered by a variety of issues, for example crime, illegal immigration, education reform, economic growth and unemployment. These issues are reported by numerous medias one of them being newspapers. Newspapers are a reliable and popular source of receiving information. Frequently “newspaper vendors stand at the roadside during the morning rush hour, selling copies of the daily papers” and “commuters stop their cars amid traffic to buy copies” (Benjamin & LeGrand
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on Domestic Workers in Trivandrum Sreedevi R S 2 CONTENT Sl. No. TITLE PAGE NUMBER. List of Tables List of Figures 1 2 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 5.1 5.2 5.3 Introduction Review of Literature Neo-classical Theories Background of Trivandrum Theoretical Analysis Regression Analysis Demographic Profile Nature of Services Work Profile of Domestic Workers Health Consideration of Domestic Workers Educational Attainment Union Awareness of Domestic Workers Household Assets
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Running head: MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT: should college athletes receive monetary compensation? Name Course name Instructor’s name Date of submission Introduction The exploits of student-athletes in sports have variously been advanced as generating a lot of dollars in forms of revenues for their respective institutions, which has generally raised the question as to why they shouldn’t be compensated for their sporting prowess. As noted by Kaufmann (2007), student-athletes generate
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When all the children should have engaged themselves in studies, then a large number of children here in Bangladesh are doing very dangerous works to live from hand to mouth. Child labors are the labors aged below 18. It is a matter of great anxiety for all of us as child labor is very dangerous and harmful. In many places, children are mentally and physically oppressed during their work. Their working in the hotels or in the garments, as a tempo helper or a tokai is really pathetic. Sometimes they
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