Principles of Management 1

Sweatshops

What is sweatshop?
It is a term used for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. Sweatshop workers often work long hours for very low pay, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage. Child labor laws may be violated.

What is sweatshop?
Also, sweatshop conditions include forced overtime, child labor, unsafe and horrible working conditions, discrimination, verbal and physical abuse. When workers try to organize a union, they are often fired.
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Sweatshop characteristics
Working conditions in most of the factories and home workshops are terrible, and the workers are poorly treated. Workers can be exposed to hazardous materials, harmful situations, extreme temperatures, and continuous abuse from employers.

Underage Workers and Underpaid Employees in Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. has been accused of having a history of using sweatshops, a working environment considered by many people to be dangerous and difficult.

Underage Workers and Underpaid Employees in Nike, Inc.

Sweatshop workers often work long days, sometimes exceeding 14 hours, and earn pay far below a living wage".

Sweatshop of Wal-Mart in Bangladesh

There are many reports about an abusive factory in Bangladesh which produces childrens wear, primarily for Wal-Mart. It reveals how one of the worlds most powerful companies is influencing lives and working conditions in one of the poorest countries in the world.
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Sweatshop of Wal-Mart in Bangladesh

Forced overtime: Workers are forced to work for 19 hours a day to finish Wal-Mart orders! Physical and verbal abuse: Verbal abuse for slight mistakes or delays in their work
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Sweatshop of Wal-Mart in Bangladesh

Climate of fear: If workers were to speak up for their rights they would be fired immediately. Inescapable poverty: Workers live in absolute poverty. The lowest paid workers earn only $20 per month, which is less than the legal minimum wage, and not enough to feed one person.
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Sweatshop of Wal-Mart in Bangladesh

Forced to lie to inspectors: When WalMarts inspectors come to visit everything changes in the factory, workers say. The managers all become good and ask us to forgive them.

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USA and sweatshops

USA banned the use of sweatshops but allow the conditions to take place in other countries for USA benefits.

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Minimum wage

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Minimum Wages in Europe

The diagram shows a comparison of minimum wages in Europe in the form of a map. It can be noticed that the minimum wages are higher at the center, west and north west of Europe, while the east of Europe has much lower minimum wages.
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Minimum Wages in Europe

The graph shows a comparison of minimum wages in Europe from the country (Bulgaria) with the least minimum wage to the country (Luxumborg) with the highest minimum wage.

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Minimum Wages Worldwide

The table shows the minimum wages of some countries worldwide.
Country Minimum wage
8,600 Kwanza (65) per month 9.00 per hour; 1,365.00 per month 130 Libyan dirham (75) per month for a single person 28,000 CFA francs (43) per month

Angola France

Libya Chad
Argentina

1,740 Argentina pesos (299) a month.

Bangladesh

1,800 Taka (17) a month 15

Fighting against sweatshops

Is boycotting shops like Nike,inc the best option to fight against sweatshops? Boycotting the shops may not work if this just leads to the workers at the end of the supply chain losing their jobs.
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Fighting against sweatshops

Often these jobs represent the only employment available for young women and men in the swelling cities of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The work is extremely exhausting, but it is still work. Without it, millions would even worse situation, unemployment!

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Are you a part of sweatshop?

The fashion industry are never going to turn their backs on sweatshops. Cheap labor means bigger profits and market share. As long as people over here go Oh! A 10 L.E T-shirt." and don't then think about why it is so cheap, they're going to buy it.

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Ways to Stop Sweatshops

Consumer boycotts by stopping buying the products of sweatshop practicing companies educational campaigns
SweatFree Communities is "a network for local action against sweatshops. They offer news about anti-sweatshop campaigns, actions and boycotts, as well as shopping tips.

legislative action and advocacy training

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What can you do to stop sweatshops?

Make researches about sweatshops. Refer to objective, reliable sources such as governmental publications, university studies and newspapers and learn everything that you can about sweatshops, including their conditions, locations and owners.
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What can you do to stop sweatshops?

Join an organization that is already campaigning against sweatshop labor Form your own local anti-sweatshop organization. This is a particularly good tactic if you belong to a school, or a university
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What can you do to stop sweatshops?

Produce informative literature such as leaflets and distribute to your community. Make handouts that explain what sweatshop labor is, where it exists, why it needs to stop and what ordinary citizens can do to help stop it.
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What can you do to stop sweatshops?

Find out what elected officials in your voting district are responsible for making and passing laws that are either for or against sweatshops.

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What can you do to stop sweatshops?

Contact local media such as newspapers or news programs and explain that you are interested in learning more about sweatshops. Write letters to the CEOs of companies that are known to use sweatshop labor. Explain why you believe that these practices should be discontinued.
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Thank You!

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