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Both of these company’s stress the importance of human rights, minimum wages, and healthy workplaces for all employees. The Governments of these low wage countries try their best to ignore and disregard these conditions that are not normal. The benefits of these workers working under these conditions are too high and production is increasing in countries such as China and India.

These conditions provide some power and control for these multinational corporations over their workers. The Chinese workers are powerless against the influence of the corporate executives. They are able to “ultimately set the pace of production as well as the wages of the workers” (“Working Conditions”). Sine corporations may deny any connection to these labor abuses in China. However, with these powers, these corporations cannot shy away from the fact that they did have some degree of responsibility for the conditions of Chinese workers.

When you go shopping to Walmart or Apple ask yourself where your product is coming from. China has numerous sweatshop factories assembling USA's products from stores as Apple and Walmart. China’s Sweatshop tends to violate human labor’s rights by forcing overtime and going under the mandatory minimum wage and other violations as long hour without pay, sexual, and physical harassment. China's sweatshop factory tends to be quite popular because is cheap labor, free trade zone, or low fee rates in taxes. The reason store as Apple and Walmart has their product to be assembled in China's factory is to avoid high export fees. Since Walmart and Apple factory's locations was identified and it came public in the media it shocked the world of its employee’s cruel working's condition. Factors in China are located in Guangdong Province Songang or in Shenzhen. For example Foxconn is a factory located in Shenzhen where Apple send their electronic to be assembled and made. In China the majority workers in factories is occupy by women and children. The percentage of women in China's Sweatshops is ninety percents. In China, the majority working in sweatshop are women which are young and not educated; in addition, forcing them to be ignorant of their own legal rights. Young women in China are attached to numeral discrimination and unfair pay. China's sweatshop is popular on violating labor rights, especially against women and underage minor women and men. It is unfortunate

“A foreman roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass into bevelled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing 10,000 units a day” (Urakami, 2012). Articles covering the headline claim Foxconn in Longua, Shenzhen, advertised for 16 year old workers, 100 persons per dormitory, 15 hour shifts, $53 USD per month in wages and military-style drills; and Austek in Suzhou encloses 50, 000 workers in a barbed wire site with $106 USD monthly wage – of which half went towards accommodation and food (Frost, 2007). An ABC TV network broadcaster revealed that some workers are forced to complete 24 hour shifts, whilst others are forced to stand the entire shift. Managers were also requested to put up nets in 2011, after nine employees committed suicide in the space of three months (Cooper, 2013). This is justified through the financial results for Apple Inc’s fiscal 2012 first quarter ending December 31, 2011 as Apple posted record quarterly revenue of $46.3 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion with the sales of 54 million iPhones, iPads and Macs (Apple, 2012). Furthermore, these claims juxtapose the principles that Apple declares to abide by, “We have a strict Code of Conduct that requires our supplies

This approach, when applied to China, gave primacy to the factor of production that was most scarce in China, large-scale machinery and other forms of relatively advanced material technology, and de-emphasized the factor of production that China had in relative abundance, human labor power.  If labor is the most abundant "resource" in the society, then according to orthodox economic thinking, labor (or, better said, the potential to do labor) should be considered relatively less costly than other more scarce resources, such as physical capital, where physical capital is understood as the material embodiment of technology (machines, tools, assembly lines, etc.) that has been developed by previous investments of the available social surplus and/or

For most of its history, Seattle was kind of a separated city dedicated to the apical dominance of the white people, just as any areas in the United states. Colored people are excluded from most jobs, communities, many stores, restaurants, hotels or other commercial establishments. Similar with other western countries, the unfairness is not only towards African Americans as they just commonly concerned, but also towards many other minorities as well with varies reasons for each. Many discussed reasons are leading to the exclusions with Asian Americans in Seattle. Specifically, as for Chinese, they were repelled mainly due to their large occupation of the American job market.

Apple has many suppliers in their large supplier network, which Foxconn is one of them. Foxconn is a Taiwanese manufacturer of electronic, which has many different factories in different countries. Foxconn is notorious for making iPhone in China and being brutal with their employees. This included poor working conditions, illegal overtime, and treating their employees like robots with no respect. Apple states that they had no idea this was going on in Foxconn, but that’s up to you if you truly believe them. Apple took some precautionary actions against Foxconn stating that Apple will join the Fair Labor Association (FLA) in order to run external audits once a year, and they developed a global supplier code of conduct. Apple released a statement

Behind the deception created by Apple’s claim, “We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives,” their employees lack the basic rights their consumers, unlike them, receive. The Chinese government, the host of the largest labor force globally, is distinguished for their unwillingness to protect the civil liberties of their people. Corporations flock to China, most notably Apple and Walt Disney, in order to abuse the loose enforcement of their laws, cutting costs by infringing upon the rights of their employees. Through the years, several investigations have examined these greedy corporations, discovering the magnitude of human rights denied to their employees. The malpractices of these firms are hidden behind the joyfulness of their products; the Chinese government should shield their citizens against human rights violation rather than protecting a company 's bottom line. Specifically, companies should not have the authority to disrespect their employees, place them in hazardous conditions, provide them with an inhumane salary as well as employ minors.

“Inside the factory, amid clattering machinery and clouds of sawdust, men without earplugs or protective goggles feed wood into screaming electric saws, making cabinets for stereo speakers” (Goodman and Pan 1). In the article Chinese Workers Pay for Wal-Mart’s Low Prices by Peter Goodman and Philip Pan the mistreatment of the migrant workers in China is evident. These kinds of behaviors are taking place all over in China. The abuse of the Chinese work force has reached terrible proportions and created unlawful conditions because of the demanding economy of China, and other countries’ needs of the goods; however, the companies that are centered in China are working to make sure their workers are treated fairly.

Apple is undeniably positioned as the worlds most innovative and valuable technology company. Apple has successfully used simplicity and intelligence to take over the world of technology. Steve Jobs lead Apple to substantial accomplishments and vast income continuing when Tim Cook picked up leadership in early 2012. Although this company is undoubtedly financially wealthy, an ethical dilemma concerning Foxconn’s working conditions has been called into question. Foxconn, a key supplier to Apple, has reported long working hours, discrimination of workers, and a lack of working relationships that has lead to multiple attempted suicides and fourteen deaths before Cook took control. According to public opinion and perception when Tim Cook picked up leadership, he began attempting to improve standards for the Taiwanese workers. Recently Tim Cook explained, "We believe that workers everywhere have the right to a safe and fair work environment". This statement proves Tim Cook wants to see effective positive change within Apple factories. However, the company has responsibilities to stakeholders, particularly customers. Apple’s primary obligation revolves around producing technology with the best economic value for customers. With the factories improving, prices may increase, fewer products may be produced, and overall product quality may decrease. Tim Cook represents the ethical decision maker (EDM) in justifying the better option to

Labor relations in China have become more and more complex, labor conflicts have occurred frequently, and thus labor disputes have been growing with a rate much faster than that of the development of GDP in the past decade. They could become a potential obstacle to the economic development if not appropriately managed. The paper studies the condition of labor relations, and probes the profound reasons for it, and compares it across the world in order to give a description for it.

It is very obvious in the manufacturing company that without enough workers it cannot produce the goods on time which may affect their profit as well as their reputation.

The Chinese government shall consider establishing a unified old-age insurance system. To be more specific, migrant workers shall have old-age insurance schemes that feature a mixed model with both personal accounts and a public fund; they shall be entitled to monthly old-age benefits after retirement; and the government must provide them better legal protection regarding old-age insurance benefits [33]. Other policy recommendations regarding improving the social security system for migrant workers in China include: making innovations in the Social Relief System, gradually raising the level of overall planning to national from municipal / provincial, intensifying law enforcement, letting trade unions come into full

Despite its global recognition and status, Apple Inc. has come under scrutiny in recent years. Criticism concerning Apple’s unethical labour conditions (causing both physical and emotional distress to employees) on a considerable number of occasions has led to this. Unethical labour conditions has not been an isolated incident, rather a disapprovingly common occurrence for such a well-regarded global brand.

The Labour Law of China is the law formulated in accordance with the Constitution in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of laborers, readjust labor relationship, establish and safeguard a labor system suited to the socialist market economy, and promote economic development and social progress.