The Effects Of Sweatshop Conditions On The Workplace

Apple business environment is competitive and fast-paced. Apple suppliers must understand this dynamic and be agile and flexible in responding to changing business conditions. All over the world, people are building Apple products and Apple has a responsibility to make sure that each person is treated with dignity and respect. It’s a massive challenge where Apple work is never done, but each year they implement meaningful, lasting changes across their supply chain. Because of this around the globe, Apple employees are united in bringing equality, human rights, and respect for the environment to the deepest layers of their supply chain. Apple goes deep into their supply chain to enforce their social and environmental standards by empowering workers through education, demanding that suppliers treat workers fairly and ethically at all times, having safe and healthy facilities, and hold their products and processes to the highest

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Sweatshop Labor is a term for a workplace that has poor and unacceptable working conditions. The work may be underpaid, difficult or dangerous. This is the type of labor where pay is almost non-existent, and is running the potential of many young children worldwide. It has been defined by the United States department of Labor as "a factory that violates two or more labor laws." Disregarding the conditions and age requirements that we find acceptable, people who live and work there don’t always think of sweatshops as negatively. Their other choices of employment are: prostitution, farming, and crime. It’s a controversial issue to whether or not sweatshops should remain open and for what reasons. In my opinion although sweatshops are very common

Sweatshops have been where many items are created over many years. Sweatshops may and probably do have unsafe working conditions. Mcdonald's fast food restaurant is many people’s favorite restaurants when they are on the go. Beware that Mcdonald's may not be as safe as it seems.

After researching information on sweatshops and working conditions in which my clothing in being manufactured, I have come to a conclusion that I shouldn’t support the companies that exploit cheap labor in sweatshops. I’ve had the luxury of being able to buy clothes and not have a care in the world about how it's made. But now that I know how my clothes are made I have began to question my need to buy clothing from the big companies who exploit cheap labor. Of course I need clothing but I don't need to buy as much and maybe make or borrow clothing from relatives. I believe that boycotting the clothing industry is the only way to get big company's attention and get them to stop using sweatshops in foreign countries for cheap

Foxconn is a company in China that is notorious for using slave labor to make electronic devices we use every day. The company is known for abundant labor violations and cruelties that turned many heads in different countries in the world. The unusual violations included ridiculous amounts of long hours, shorting pay people are owed, and restricted and conditions that many would equate to prison. There were numerous American companies under the microscope to improve conditions after being caught profiting off the slave labor from people “employed” at the facility. One of these companies was Apple. Foxconn is also notoriously known for manufacturing many other electronics, for other major companies.

“The aim of these rules is to strive for that elusive balance that keeps such conduct both acceptable in its political-social environment and effective in its economic purpose. The rulebook governing how business managers "play the game" is always under revision (Wotruba, 1997).” For Apple, as things in society and the environment changes, so does the way that they do business. As part of their core objectives, social and environmental standards are enforced. They are continuously working to improve conditions to ensure that employees are in a safe and ethical environment. Audits are very thorough, so when issues arise which is normally the case, there is a team set in place to fix the problem and then come up with a way to improve on the solution. It is imperative to the company, their suppliers, and consumers that the products produced are ethically and environmentally safe. Wherever the product is being produced, each member of the team is to be treated with dignity and respect. As of February 2015, Apple has discontinued services with 18 suppliers due to code

Even with companies that follow the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), we hear of numerous cases where employees are severely injured or lose their lives at their workplaces each and every year. Therefore, it is unfair to say that sweatshops’ working conditions are the reason why these workers are losing their lives. If these sweatshop workers are using the machinery as they’re supposed to, then there is no reason for them to get severe injuries or lose their

Over the past several years, Apple's major hardware and development contributor, Foxconn, has received a great deal of criticism over their working conditions and benefits. There are over a dozen Foxconn factories in China, all of which

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In 2006, the Mail on Sunday stated that Apple’s China factories had sweatshop conditions. It also said that the iPod factory workers had 60 hour weeks. (Heffernan 2013) Following this allegation, Apple started an investigation, working with their manufacturers to ensure that conditions were acceptable by Apple’s standards. (Heffernan 2013) Audits of the labour conditions of all its suppliers, raising standards slowly and stopping relationships with non-complying suppliers. (Heffernan 2013) Progress reports post 2008 have been a reality. (Heffernan 2013) Chinese workers in 2010 had planned to sue iPhone contractors over poisoning from a cleaner used to clean LCD screens, with one worker claiming they weren’t informed of possible occupational illnesses. (Heffernan 2013) Following the 2010 Foxconn suicides, A 2014 BBC investigation found excessive hours & other problems persisted, despite Apple promising to change factory practices. (Heffernan 2013)

For a year being concerned, in January 2012, the company finally have made the promises about providing the better working conditions to the labours. In same time, because of the impact of public pressure, Apple have joined the FLA – Fair Labor Association in order to raise awareness of labor rights and standards among workers in its supply chain. (FLA, 2012) As a manufacturing partner of Apple, Foxconn had to receive the investigation from FLA. After a year, the result of the investigation showed that Apple and

Although sweatshops get a bad name for their conditions, it has been shown and documented that sweatshops actually benefit people by occupying them with jobs they wouldn't get anywhere else, as well as help boost the economy. Sweatshops have been known to boost economies in areas where poverty is an issue.They offer jobs and shelter from the streets. When someone hears the word sweatshop they think of child labor, Most people are too focused on the negative side of sweatshops that they can’t see the side that benefits and aids the people of its surroundings. In the grand scheme of things, The good of sweatshops outweighs the bad.

“FORCED TO WORK EXHAUSTING HOURS” - this is the label which a woman who bought a summer dress at Primark found (See figure 1). The message was a cry for help from workers and implies the harsh environment for the people in a sweatshop (Lewin). The word sweatshop was made in the end of 1800s. The definition of the sweatshop is broad but it describes any workplace where people are forced poor conditions and long hours of works with low wages (Annabelle). The US Department of Labor defined a sweatshop as a factory which violates two or more labor laws (DoSomething.org). People in developed countries tend to enjoy buying cheaper products and do not care about the reality of the process they have made. In fact, many women and children are forced to work in sweatshops in developing countries. Some corporations such as NIKE, GAP and Wal Mart have already revealed those facts but the problem has not been solved yet (Bakan). Actually, those are just few of the companies involved in sweatshop labor. By using sweatshops, many corporations reduce their production costs. And millions of people still live with what they get from sweatshops (Solution). Some people say the sweatshop is ethical because it provides better jobs than the average jobs in those

The consumer electronics magnate Apple Inc. has been accused of labor abuse in its Asian supply chain. The acquiescence of underage labor, excessive working hours and illegitimate low wage in China-based Foxconn factories is clear evidence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) omission. In fact, such acquiescence is the result of an exploitation chain, with Apple at the top, Chinese workers at the bottom and Foxconn in between.