...Workers in the 1800s did not have luxury we have today. The workers back then had no retirement plans, no sicks days, and no worker rights. The owners wanted to keep their profits high so their ran their factories as cheaply as possible. Some examples in the text are,”Some cut costs by requiring workers to buy their own tools or to bring coal to heat the factories. Others refused to buy safety equipment. “ Other examples of neglecting the needs of the workers aare, “... factory and sweatshop owners kept wages low. In the 1880s, the average weekly wage was less than $10. This barely paid a family’s expenses. If a worker missed work due to illness or had any unexpected bills, the family went into debt.” The worker did not takes this without...
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...The role I plan on doing is the common factory worker. Many things had happened during the time of the Great Depression and what had lead up to it. The main thing that people believe started the Great Depression was the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Things like the Fiscal Policy, the Monetary Policy, and the Labor Policy helped stabilize the United States after the Great Depression and the Stock Market Crash. Many other factors took place during this time but the main ones stand out more. Fiscal policy is the means by which a government adjusts its spending levels and tax rates to monitor and influence a nation's economy. Monetary policy is maintained through actions such as increasing the interest rate, or changing the amount of money banks need to keep in the vault....
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...Labor Practices Factory workers endure abuse on the job lacking a voice or ablility to do anything about it. Since Nike contracts out for their factory managers, it has been hard for Nike to regulate what goes on when they are not on their tour or walk through. “A Korean supervisor in a Vietnam factory was found guilty of beating 15 Vietnamese about the head with a shoe “upper”, and another Korean supervisor was charged with sexual molestation.” (Saporito 3) In this instance it was not an U.S. supervisor, nor was it a military officer but someone of a different nationality. The hard part is that there are no independent unions and meaningful corporate codes of conduct to discipline management. So workers must turn to the courts for help which is a long fought battle that no one wants to attempt. In one case that made it to, a Vietnamese court recently found a Korean supervisor guilty of beating workers and extradition may be sought for the accused sexual molester who fled. In Indonesia 24 discharged Nike workers are challenging the legality of their dismissal before the country’s Supreme Court (Saporito 3). These are major breakthroughs in the court systems to have someone tried and convicted in these distant countries whose courts are often corrupted. Factory conditions are consistently getting press here in the U.S., as many are angry with Nike for not providing for their overseas employees. The following account is of the conditions in a Chiniese factory: Twelve hour...
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...then multinational banks escorted a large amount of money out of the country. Next, the Argentina government had frozen all bank accounts in the country. In the results, the savings of ordinary people had locked off, while rich people got their money offshore. The most important thing was this circumstance made Argentina to have largest sovereign debt in the world history, and 50% of the populations were below the poverty line. Sum up, the prosperous and wealthy Argentina were no longer exist. The economic downturn in Argentina affected every Argentinians. At first, people spent on what they earned, because their saving had been frozen in the banks. However, most of the citizens in Argentina were hard to find a job. The reason was factories were the places where most jobs came from, but many of them were bankruptcy. Therefore, people lost the main source of employment opportunities and income. Moreover, people need to rely on the compact earning to live, and most of them need to pay for their own living expense and debts. Thus, they could not buy any consumer products like perfume, makeup and clothes. For children, parents could not afford what their child liked, even a happy meal in McDonald. In addition, the income of some families could not cover both daily supplies and debts, so they chose not...
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...sandwich factory In the short-story The Sandwich Factory by Jason Kennedy, we are shown the negative sides of the work in a factory. We get an insight through an unnamed narrator. The narrator works, obviously, at a sandwich factory. The theme of the story is very vague, if existing at all. What might be a clue to the theme is that the work that is being done at the factory is something a machine easily could do, so something with the view of factory workers. It isn’t really the best job he could think of, but after being fired from the last one, he takes the job at the factory even though the pay is bad. The narrator seems like a rather intelligent person in contradiction to the ones you find at factories; he listens to Joy Division and read novels originally written in Japan, which tells me that he is too clever to be fit for the monotonous work the factory provides him with. This certainly isn’t his goal in life. As the story is told from the eyes of the narrator, it is also tainted with his views and thoughts. We know the narrator is a man as he says, “I had zero confidence with women anyway” in line 96, and the elderly lady at the factory, Dot wishes to find a girl for him amongst the female workers. Again we see the narrator differing from the rest of the workers, as he allows himself to be shy towards girls instead of looking down their tops (lines 109-110 ). He is more humane. I think we are given a picture of what happens if you should happen to stay in the factory for too...
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... Headquarters, San Francisco, California.r When you a decent standard of living and allow workers to organize unions to improve decided to join Gap as its new CEO (Gap, lnc. runs Gap, Banana Republic, their conditions in factories." ls Gap the only company that relies and Old Navy clothing stores), your teenage daughter immediately asked, on such suppliers? No, it isn't. According to Kirk Douglass of pivot lnterna- "Doesn't Gap use sweatshops?"you stockholders, suppliers, overseas weren't surprised by her question, as the company has received intense negative news coverage regarding the tional, a manufacturing company that owns factories in the Philippines and workers, or protesters-take precedence? Furthermore, is Gap really does work with Chinese companies,,,lf you go into almost any plant in the treatment of workers in the overseas factories from which it buys its clothes. responsible for the terrible treatment of overseas workers? ln other words, nondeveloped countries of the Far East, you're going to see things that is this your problem, or a problem that the managers and owners of the overseas factories need to address? For example, a worker for a Gap OSHA fOccupational Safety and may lower sales and reduce profits. how do you decide whose interests- supplier in Lesotho, Africa, complained, "The factory is dusty. We can,t escape breathing in...
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...the Chinese factories where Apple — and almost every other consumer electronics company — has their products made. It was a nice editorial, but I disagree with it completely. Well, almost completely. I do agree that it’s an important issue and that the discussion is good. He took a position and argued it well, that China was the story, and Apple merely link-bait. And it’s that position I disagree with. First of all, just because almost every other consumer electronics company uses the same factories in no way lets Apple off the hook. If anything, it just means those hooks are awfully crowded. Each and every one of those companies, including Apple, are accountable for their own actions, or lack of action, concerning the working conditions in the factories where their products are made. If Apple were to pull out of these factories, it’s true that a lot of other companies would remain, but so what? Apple will have done something, and even more pressure could be exerted on the ones that remained, and they’d look even worse because they remained. Change often comes from a single, courageous act that disrupts the status quo and sets into motion a new course of action that others simply must follow. If staying engaged proves to be a better strategy, however, Apple could still be a greater agent for change. They could see to it workers were paid more, for example, or insist upon more reasonable working schedules. Of course, Apple can’t just give the factories more money...
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...population. But as a law of physics states, with every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Therefore as urban areas increase in size and population this has resulted in rural areas both decreasing in size and in population. As globalization becomes more common, many businesses and companies have looked to China as a country that shows a great potential for expansion and investment. As a result China is experiencing a tremendous growth in their economy. Urban areas in China have expanded with new buildings and factories being built to keep up with demand. But this urban expansion has come at the cost of losing agricultural land. Many farmers who owned land in rural areas are losing their land as the government has mandated the land be sold to the state so the state can then turnaround and sell it to companies looking to build factories in China. This had led to farmland that was once abundant with agricultural crops, now being used to house factories. As the article states, seizure of farmland is an issue in China, with a study indicating that seizure of farmlands has increased fifteen-fold over the past decade. This has led to growing discontent and has led to protests or “public disturbances” by rural residents. In order to alleviate this tension among rural residents China has begun to set up initiatives for rural citizens. These initiatives have included discontinuing...
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...As you can see this image totally explains the tragedy that occurred. After this happened the company was faced with a terrible reputation as people were able to see the working environment for workers outside of the EU was totally unsafe. The community was shattered after this event as 581 people had been killed so many families were left devastated. It would also mean many families would suffer as their income would become instantly scarce and more importantly this event would mean that so many children would become orphans. The media’s reaction blew up and this was scattered all around the globe damaging Primark’s valuable reputation by the minute. Eventually after some persuasion by petitions and government demands the company said they would compensate. ‘‘ The British retailer has agreed to pay $9m to the 581 workers, or their families, from New Wave Bottoms, Primark's supplier, which was based on the second floor of the building in Dhaka. A further $1m will go into a communal compensation pot to be shared among all the 3,600 workers who suffered when the eighth-floor Rana Plaza complex collapsed in April last year’’. This shows that company demonstrated that they took some social responsibility for the community that got terribly damaged, it also showed that the company wanted to improve their community and try and amend for what happened for the families. The company has also compensated by offering the community health care schemes that would include volunteers donating...
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...industrial revolution had significant consequences as it negatively impacted the lives of many. Long hours of work reduced a factory workers quality of life and greed revoked its value. Women who once worked happily from home now worked long laborious hours in a factory. They were usually given low skilled position as well as the lowest paying jobs. A normal day for a workingwomen usually consisted of about ten hours of labor in a factory and later countless hours at home completing their traditional duties. Not only were women working twice as much as they once did many also had to endure double the bulling as they now had to answer to both their boss and a husband. Not only was the quality of life for women reduced but also that of men and children since they as well no longer had time for many of life’s simple pleasures, as they too spent a large portion of their life working. The industrial revolution also caused the value of human life to plummet. Children no longer completed small tasks at home but worked just as long hours in a factory and were usually exploited by their bosses. They were at times given dangerous tasks to complete such as unjamming textile machines. Textile owners understood that if the child wasn’t swift enough they were at risk of a traumatic injury or death. Rather than turn off a machine and lose profit for a day many textile factory owners saw it more reasonable to risk the life of the child instead. A child’s life, or that of any other person, no longer...
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...into a situation where the only place they afford to live is next to factories. And they are paying the cost in their health. I’ve heard many stories about pollution issues in Richmond, and I always wonder why these residents decided to live there at the first place and why they still live there. I learned from the article the reason was much more historical than that I thought. People started to move to Richmond before WWII. There was racism and people in color especially African Americans could not live in certain neighborhoods. Simply they did not have a choice. Also from this article I saw that because Richmond is such a poor neighborhood, it seems like the society even don’t care about the fact so many residents are suffering from pollutions. After some toxic air pollution incident, no one came to check up on their health. It looks to me that the society don’t value the residents’ life or health. In addition, this article reminds me of the news report that I’ve read a while ago. It said that it’s very expensive for factories to reduce pollutions so large corporations chose to pay fines to the government instead of solving these issues. I understand businesses are always looking for ways to reduce expenses, but these unethical behaviors of corporations need to be stopped. And I didn’t see the companies in Richmond are reaching out to help these people who are suffering from toxic pollution from their factories. 2. How does it relate to one or more environmental health...
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...Macintosh computer which Steve Jobs described as “a machine that is made in America”. In 2004, when the company was not nearly as financially profitable as they are today, they decided their best option was to start manufacturing their products in other countries. The company, who is now a leader in foreign manufacturing, was lagging behind many American companies in terms of manufacturing abroad at that point in time. The majority of their foreign manufacturing takes place in Asia, specifically in China. In the New York Time’s article, “How the U.S lost out on iPhone Work,” Charles Duhigg described Apple’s move to foreign manufacturing from the words of a former Apple executive, “For Mr. Cook, the focus on Asia “came down to two things,”… Factories in Asia “can scale up and down faster” and “Asian supply chains have...
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...The character of Stephen Blackpool finds his way into the novel later than most of the other characters, however plays no less significant a role. Stephen lives in a dingy dirty part of Coketown among a group of people referred to as “The Hands”. These people are the lowest part of society are merely the workers who toil day after day to manufacture and perpetuate the products of the industry in Coketown . Stephen is forty years old and is married to a drunk and distressed wife who is constantly drinking away her sorrows from being part of the lower echelon of society as well as wandering in and out of his life. Blackpool dreams of being free of their marriage and re-marrying another character, Rachel, however their love cannot be as for a person in his social status divorce does not come easily. Stephen works in one of Bounderby’s factories as a power loom weaver, and worked long hard hours for meager pay just to sustain himself. Despite all of these misfortunes that he had to endure during his daily life, Blackpool was a man of great faith and integrity. He was a firm Christian and believed that his trials were not in vain, proving so by living that philosophy every day. All of these traits together bring the reader a picture of a poor in money but rich in spirit middle-aged man who works hard for a living and is an overall admirable character in the storyline. The time in which Blackpool lived, the 19th century, was at the heart of the industrial revolution and Stephens’...
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...Procurement Engineering Design Industrial Engineering Process Engineering Entry-Level Jobs in POM • Purchasing planner/buyer • Production (or operations) supervisor • Production (or operations) scheduler/controller • Production (or operations) analyst • Inventory analyst • Quality specialist 5 Historical Milestones in POM • • • • • • The Industrial Revolution Post-Civil War Period Scientific Management Human Relations and Behaviorism Operations Research The Service Revolution 6 The Industrial Revolution • The industrial revolution developed in England in the 1700s. • The steam engine, invented by James Watt in 1764, largely replaced human and water power for factories. • Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations in 1776 touted the economic benefits of the specialization of labor. • Thus the late-1700s factories had not only machine power but also ways of planning 7 and...
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...the activities, links and production flows in a Toyota factory are rigidly regulated, and at the same time the system is very flexible and adaptable, which is difficult to unravel for the outsiders. They do not often understand that it is this rigidly regulated system itself that makes all the operational flexibility and improvement possible, and stimulates the creation of the community of scientists (factory workers) who actually use scientific methods to make the workflow to be more efficient and straightforward. That means the activities and processes are constantly being challenged in order to improve the performance and increase the efficiency. Another problem for successful imitation is that this system and its methods are not actually written anywhere, neither were they officially imposed or consciously chosen. That’s why Toyota workers can hardly explain it in a systematic way, and the outsiders have difficulty grasping it, especially considering that the organizational changes are often made at a very low level. The system developed gradually over the company’s more than 6 decades in operation, and Toyota has become a learning organization that stimulates experimenting, which very much distinguishes it from other companies. According to the article, there are 4 rules that create the DNA of Toyota Production System, and specifically these rules (but not the tools and practices one can see during the Toyota factory visits) are vital to understanding and successful replication...
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