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    Please refer to page 23 of the packet Touchstone Theorists of Capitalism: Smith, Marx, and Keynes. According to Smith and Say’s Law, Overproduction, recession/depression, and unemployment are three problems that are avoided in capitalism because supply creates its own demand. In the diagram, firms produce products and factor income; for both their workers and selves, through the production process; as seen in arrow one. Factor income for their workers in then used to consume the goods produced and

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    the greater good of the people, nor does it establish any guidelines as to what can or cannot be exploited about the consumer market. One major aspect of the consumer that capitalism targets is evolutionary biology. The biggest example of this exploitation, which almost all of capitalism is fueled from, is the common chemical in the human body known as dopamine. Dopamine, is a neurotransmitter that when released “attaches itself to receptors throughout the brain that in turn produce an intense

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    Sweatshops Exploitation

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    Globalization is a process where goods, information, people, money, communication, languages, values, and social issues move across national boundaries” (Class notes, Lecture 1). There are many factors that can make some believe that sweatshops and workers exploitation is a part of development to a country, but those same factors if looked at in another perspective can be viewed very differently. I do not believe that sweatshops and workers are a part of development. Development is when a country is trying to

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    for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not won, but where sub-contractors make products for Nike? Although Nike may be technically removed from responsibility in some areas, it clearly has the obligation to be certain that exploitation by subcontractors do not occur. Certainly the pay and working conditions that the workers of subcontractors receive is due in large part to the contract that has been negotiated by Nike. If Nike had chosen to make improved working conditions a

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    developing countries constitutes exploitation. In some extreme cases, this is potentially true. For example, by making empty promises time after time, diamond cartel De Beers has repeatedly taken advantage of the lack of governmental regulations and communication in African nations. It could be argued that the developing countries house factories that not only use cheap (though market rate for the area) labor, but unfairly exploit employees. Examples of this exploitation could include using physical

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         Scanning the conforming, ephemeral trendy masses, a large percent of the attire donned by the populace is made by cheap labor under horrible conditions. Many of the stores that fill malls and line streets are stocked with morally tainted products. Various popular brand names and stores use sweat shops as a means of production to maintain a low manufacturing cost, and reap a higher profit. Not only do these socially irresponsible conglomerates exist, they thrive on the

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    Human Sweatshops Outline

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    OUTLINE WORKSHEET INTRODUCTION ATTENTION GETTER: Somewhere, someone in this room is more than likely wearing a piece of clothing or accessory that has been produced in a human sweatshop. A Sweatshop is an unfit working environment considered to be too dangerous and difficult to work in. Their widespread outbreak happened in the mid 1800’s where clothing could be produced faster and inexpensive without regulations from overseers’. PURPOSE: (relate topic to this audience and establish

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    conduct. Both companies code of vendor conduct clearly states that no workers are employed under the legal minimum age and sweatshops don't exist in their factories. A sweatshop is a factory where employees are subject to extreme exploitation; they work in dreadful conditions with health and safety hazards, for little pay and long hours. Child labour is, as the word suggests, when children under the legal minimum age are employed to work When we hear brand names such

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    Internationally recognized companies such as Nike make use of sweatshops and aid in the exploitation of labor workers in many parts of the world. A sweatshop is an industrialized provision that is known to have poor working conditions, infringement of labor law, and long hours coupled with low wages. In today’s world, sweatshops are prevalent all across the globe; however they raise the most concern in developing nations. Nike is one of the world’s most renowned sportswear companies, but has been

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    Karl Marx was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Marx defined capital as a social, economic relation between people. In many of his writings, Marx had implied that revolutions within the proletarian society would be inevitable and the proletariat would become the ruling class all over the world (Kreis, S 2000) Marx proposed this theory of revolution based on Hegelian concepts of the dialectic. The philosophical and ideological aims put forward were to bring

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