Spencer Hsu Ethics in Manufacturing in China. 12/9/13 We often hear in the news how badly factory

The impact outsourcing had to United States was for some Americans bad. They claim the jobs they loose and the disadvantages that Americans were facing due to this radical change. While in the United States some people were disgusted, in the other side of the world, the young people were very thankful. This change made a revolution on their culture; the new Indian generations were entering to a whole new world, making a big change between Indian generations.

• The enormous surplus of labor in China imperils workers worldwide as international competition puts incessant downward pressure on wages and working conditions, leading the apparel and textile industries to favor the cheapest and most Draconian producers.

One of the hallmarks of china’s socialist economy made a statement promise of employment to all and job-security with virtually lifelong tenure.They were overstaffed to fulfilling socialist goals and job-security lower the workers ‘motivation to work.This socialist policy was called the iron rice bowl.China’s employed labor force is rarely over 800

China has produced multiple jobs for the unemployed but not in the best way. The working conditions in Chinese markets are not the best. In China clothing industries, an employee makes $4.20 an hour whereas in a country such as the US, an employee makes $10.00. China also participates in the use of children to work in their factories.4 In some countries, child labor laws are put into place, but in China they do not have these laws. The conditions of the work place are referred to as “sweat shops.” One of the biggest issues facing the Chinese factories is something known as sandblasting. Sandblasting is a technique used to treat denim so it has a worn look. By performing this technique, it exposes workers to silica dust particles which severely damages

The U.S. economy has seen many hardships within the last decade. The economy has suffered from a recession that is still threatening to cripple some Americans and unemployment has been at an all time high. People have lost homes and jobs and many businesses have gone bankrupt simply trying to survive. However, in the midst of this economic crisis some companies have managed to survive. Many companies, approximately 36% of them, have found a way to avoid economic collapse by cutting costs (Job Outsourcing Statistics, 2014). One of the most popular cost reducing strategies of our time is called outsourcing.

The political alarm in my mind went off. It is always hard to imagine inhumanity such as this happening today, as my frame of experience draws upon working at Best Buy Geek Squad and the only mistreatment I have ever dealt with is a vertically-challenged manager who nicknamed me “Brokeback” because I wore cowboy boots. The compilation of stories from China presented by Rivoli especially hit home for me because during my time trying to start a clothing company, my team never discussed any “sweatshop” issues. I view myself as an ethical entrepreneur and it was hard to stomach the fact that during my time starting Austerity Clothing last year, we talked to death about “green” products, but not once had the thought even crossed my mind that our products could have possibly been manufactured in Chinese “sweatshops”. After I took the red pill of responsibility, I found it fascinating the policies I had never heard of in communist China, such as the hukou. In the book, Rivoli translates that the "hukou is a place of household registration." (87) The way it is described seemed similar to the Indian caste system of classifying its citizens. The idea that people can be classified as simply “farm people” or “city people” and that title defines who they are as a person is so

In the third world countries such as Vietnam, China, South Korea and Taiwan, we are provided with an example of cheap labour. These corporations could now achieve the benefit of the United States consumer market8, while keeping their costs extremely low in offshore production. The working conditions in the United States were poor for centuries, often little to nothing was done unless a tragedy occurred to influence worker rights by the public. This was the issue during the Industrial Revolution and in the late 20th century. In the United states, improvements have been made and these conditions have disappeared, with the privilege in some agricultural areas. Companies from the United States have moved a considerable amount of their factories

These jobs that the Chinese have taken should be open to Americans first seeing that we are in America but a lot of the companies have wanted the Chinese working instead. For example, “The boot, shoe, and cigar industries are almost entirely in their hands. In the manufacture of men’s overalls and women’s and children’s underwear they run over three thousand sewing machines night and day.” This means us Americans do not have the jobs that were once ours and the Chinese are taking a majority of the jobs out there. There is barely enough work for Americans alone and now my job has been taken over because these Chinese people offer to work for a lot less money and longer hours. I need my job to feed myself and my family, but I got fired because they say the Chinaman would do the same work for less money making it better for the company to hire the Chinaman and fire me. This is one reason why we the people of America are rightfully fighting to have our privileges back. “It is almost impossible for a poor white servant girl to find employment in a white family. No! The mistress of the house wants a Chinaman.” This is just one example of an American changing our work to fit in the Chinaman, even though it makes Americans start to be in poverty because the Chinese have been earning the money we normally

Apple, the giant electronic device company in the US, also makes a massive profit from the cheap labor in China. As same as Walmart, the workers for Apple Company have to work overtime because the hourly wage can’t support their families, and they have to work in the environment full of dust and metal. Foxcom is a company of Apple in China, which manages the processing of Apple products. In the plant producing IPhone 5c, a 15 years-old boy is killed because of the unclean condition, and he was too tired. The average working hour is more than 60 a week, so many workers have to sleep overnight at the workplace, and some even work both day shift and night shift to feed their families. Although the workers of Apple Company are suffering, the profit of this company is still increasing. Last year, the avenue of Apple was 42.1 billion dollars, and net profit was 4.8 billion dollars. The cost to make an IPhone is about 200 dollars, but it is sold by 700 to 900 dollars each. Workers in China get 1.5 dollars an hour, so they get 268 dollars a month, and that is three times less than the price of a phone. Apple gains the huge profit, but they haven’t given any benefit to these workers. China is just one of many countries suffer in selfish of the giant companies. Côte d’Ivoire is a country in Africa, and it is famous with production of cocoa, and it’s also where the

Outsourcing is a process in which large corporations move various jobs such as: production of goods, online coding, telemarketing, and human recourses to name a few to foreign countries in order to cut down on employment rates, and raise their profit margin. Moreover, the low amount companies pay overseas employees, lower standard of work environment, cutbacks on various fees that are usually found in the U.S., and much more make outsourcing seem very desirable. However, outsourcing can be argued as favorable, or unfavorable depending on the audience, and their outlook on the issue. I personally side with the viewpoint that outsourcing long term is unfavorable for America. I find this issue very interesting, complex, and large because of the

China is one of our biggest labor competitors. The reason many US companies go to China for outsourcing is again, because of their workforce’s willingness to operate at low costs. Michael Zimmerman describes this as a disparity in worker “tolerance”. Where the low wages found in China are “far lower than U.S.

Imagine only seeing your family for one day once a year. Having to compete for a ticket home with millions of other workers in order to see your family that you haven’t seen in a year. This is the life of 130 million migrant workers in china. These workers make most of the things we own. Most of us don’t think about the people who make our clothes, our phones, our computers; items that we use everyday. Our way of life revolves on mass consumerism, where we value the article more than the person or persons who made it. Mass media and multi million dollar industries keep the conditions on how these people work as a total mystery. Some brands have been exposed for sweatshop and

“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.

In the film “China Blue”, a seventeen year old girl, Jasmine Li, works in a Chinese jeans factory. From this documentary we learn about the pay Jasmine was receiving for her hard work, half a Yuan an hour which is equal to about six US cents. We also learn about the condition of the factory and dorms, the rules that the workers have to abide to, and how important these factories are. From just these sweat shops we learn about the economic, social, and political problems that has arisen in China. It also shows us inequality and inequity of the society in China.

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.