Corporate Factories In Sylvia Wright's 'Boatright'

In the chapters, “The Discarded Factory” and "A Tale of Three Logos," Klein explains the globalizing effects on brand name multinational corporations? In the first chapter, “The Discarded Factory,” Klein tells about how corporations are putting much less of an emphasis on the production side of their business and more of an emphasis on the brand name they build. In the second chapter, “A Tale of Three Logos,” Klein talks about how three large corporations, Nike, Royal Dutch Shell, and McDonalds grew their brand.

The book copper sun is a story about an african girl named amari that was sold into slavery. It is a sad story with multiple settings that all complement the point the author was trying to make. The book is written by Sharon M. Draper and has no illustrations. These settings really show how slaves were treated during these times which is quite because it was happening to one kind of people and this is probably the second time something this bad has happened. In the novel copper sun, the settings of the boat and the plantation have many differences and similarities.

seem to have the mentality that their life has been terrible so why should their workers

owners desperately needed workers but did not want to have to pay them because that meant

Corporations know that hiring illegal immigrants can result in a much lower labor cost, but at a cost of ethics. They know that hiring an American to do labor is going to cost them a lot more, and since they’re American, they can report mistreatment to authorities. Illegal workers can’t do that unless they want to be deported afterwards, so why not screw them over? It’s easy money for corporations. I’m not justifying it, but who should get punish? The corporation for willing and knowing hiring undocumented workers or the workers themselves? Maybe, both?

Even though, it is an upside for many, thousands of people see the harmful effects that this can do to you and your family. Often times the workers are being laid off because the company’s budget only allows for so many workers. This

This factory collapsed and killed over 1,000 workers (Abrams, Rachel). In addition US companies use child labor that never would be ok in the domestic market. GAP has been accused of using 8 year old workers and Apple 15 year olds (Lamarque,Hannah). Other companies work minors over 19 hours per day (Lamarque,Hannah ). Can you imagine the backlash if a US company tried these practices? Overall, if they guarantee these rights in their home markets, they should treat their employees and customers abroad with equal human rights protection.

Ethically speaking companies should protect their workers from being overworked, but in reality some of these companies are the same ones with sweatshops in 3rd world nations. The world is money driven plain and simple. If allowed, companies will either overwork an employee or find one that they can. Care for quality of life in the business world is a relatively new concept thanks to laws and demands by customers.

The Boatwrights in the novel are the family that Lily and Rosaleen have met in Tiburon, and who they are going to be staying with. There are 3 members of the Boatwrights and they are May, June and August, and they used to have a sister named, April but she passed away when she was very young. Lily and Rosaleen are in the town of Tiburon and they are trying to find any trace of Lily's, mother and where she could have been. In the novel Lily sees the exact same picture of a black Mary that her mother owned and it was on a honey jar. On page 63 it states "I found myself looking at a picture of the black Mary...I mean the identical, very same, exact one as my mother's." This is a key point in the story because it gives Lily and Rosaleen a clue

In “A Fair Day’s Wage,” James Surowiecki seems to believe that private businesses do have a “social responsibility” to its employees. For example, he cited Aetna’s CEO, Mark Bertolini, who said, “It was not fair for employees of a Fortune 50 company to be struggling to make ends meet…’Companies are not just money-making machines…For the good of the social order, these are the kinds of investments we should be willing to make’” (Surowiecki). Therefore, companies should have some other responsibility besides its own internal goals to make profit; the company should make sure that its employees are taken care of. Surowiecki attributes the economic growth in the postwar era to the fact that “companies were responsible not only to their shareholders but also to their workers” (Surowiecki). Not only do higher wages have social consequences, but also positive

Our government must intervene for our sakes. Our leaders must stand up against these corporate big wheels and let them know they have screwed over the American people too long by making them work ridiculous hours, having no paid family leave, not bridging the disgusting wage gap between men and women, and the ugly way they care for their American workers with little to no benefits. Our government must stand up for us and make sure that,

Corporations and companies consistently come up with unique ways to continue to grow and develop their businesses. One man named Roger Smith who was the CEO of General Motors, plotted a plan to close 11 GM plants in the city of Flint, and lay off 30,000 American jobs just to relocate them to Mexico, paying its workers 70 cents an hour opposed to the $14 they paid their American employees. GM is an American vehicle corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and formed in Flint, Michigan. GM was the world's largest automobile manufacturer from the 1930’s to early 2000’s. The significance of the issue is, “Is it ethical for corporations to move operations from the US to Mexico, where they can pay workers lower wages than American workers

Another large ethical problem that the vast majority of outsourcing companies have is the low salaries for employees. Most employees are migrant workers and aren’t eligible for in house health care or education benefits. To most workers, the current wage seems very high because they are migrants, but in reality they can’t afford to pay for health care or a future education. Even the mid level factory workers can’t afford to buy a single iPhone that they spend 12 hour days putting thousands of chips in, on the assembly line.

Substandard working conditions in the less developed world are usually described as terrible places where employees are subjected to both mental and physical abuse, near impossible quotas, long hours, extremely low wages, and unsafe working conditions compared to western standards. All of this within an uninhabitable environment that corporations knowingly force the world’s impoverished people to submit to. Through pure ignorance, complete disregard, or lack of moral direction, many corporations have taken the concept of

4- Many MNCs have been accused of exploiting their workforces. For example, they may force workers to work in unsafe, or simply miserable, conditions; they may employ children, and pay low