Rhetorical Analysis “Where Sweatshops Are A Dream” In his New York Times opinion column, “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream”, writer Nicholas D. Kristof uses his experience living in East Asia to argue his positive outlook on sweatshops. Kristof wants to persuade his audience, Obama and his team, along with others who are for “labor standards”, that the best way to help people in poor countries is to promote manufacturing there, not campaign against them. He uses Phnom Penh as an example to show why
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NIKE AND SWEATSHOP LABOR Do you think the critic of Nike is fair, considering that the host countries in dire needs of creating job? It seems to me that critic of Nike is fair. It is because that If all places , mostly in dominating countries, are dominated by such an inappropriate and unconventional working environment, including overtime working without getting paid as well as hiring under-aged workers. Majority of those developing countries are in the midst of industrial transformation from
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Sweatshops in Bangladesh: An Ethical Dilemma Kristy Kennedy Legal, Ethical & Social Issues EAMBA 24 February 15, 2014 On April 25th of this year, a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing hundreds of workers. Fearing a backlash of negative publicity, U.S companies that outsource to garment factories in Bangladesh are questioning whether they should continue operations there; association with unsafe factories could tarnish a company’s reputation. Nike, for one, has already addressed
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is the high human cost it takes to achieve lower and lower prices. This is specifically talking about sweatshop labor. He assumes his readers are familiar with the term sweatshop, but don't fully comprehend the awful conditions in which these people work and their grueling hours for little pay. His purpose is to open the eyes of the reader and bring attention to just how awful sweatshops are. In order to accomplish this purpose, he appeals mainly to consumers. He also appeals to companies
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Sweatshirts from Sweatshop Part 1-Intellectual Standards 1. “According to Cromwell’s director of auxiliary services more that 90% of the logo merchandise is produced by Transterra Textiles…” -This example violates the Universal standards of Relevance and Significance. Why is the director of auxiliary services considered credible when speaking on the production of the school’s merchandise? Why is their opinion relevant? What significance does this fact have in the ultimate goal of changing the
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By definition a sweatshop is a “negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. Sweatshop workers often work long hours for very low pay in horrible conditions, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay and or minimum wage”. Many corporations in the United States use sweatshop labor in countries over seas such as China to produce their products at a lower cost. As entailed in the letter from a man born in China, many citizens on these countries
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most widely known companies have presented various cases to defend their positions on conducting business in the foreign country. One such example is a Nike sweatshop labor case that stirred up a large amount of controversy over ethical business practices. Even though Nike has attempted to recover from the bad press it received about the sweatshops, it still struggles to defeat the negative feelings from people across the United States. Thus, a summary of the case, the legal, cultural and ethical challenges
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and their want for low prices then describes sweatshops and their conditions. The problem he identifies is consumers demand lower prices to do this, corporations cut the cost on their employees either decreasing their wages or worsening their working conditions. Ravisankar assumes his readers are poor college students looking for lower prices and have a basic understanding of what a sweatshop is but does not fully know the appalling conditions of sweatshops. His purpose in this essay is to raise awareness
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A Case Analysis of Nike: The Sweatshop Debate Mindi Merritt Class Fall 2014 Instructor’s Name Introduction Nike is a hugely successful global industry that designs and markets shoes and apparel (Coakley & Kates, 2013). Most of Nike’s products are subcontracted and manufactured overseas in countries such as China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Korea. For decades, Nike has been embroiled in controversy where critics claim its products are manufactured in foreign factories with substandard
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Nike - Social and Ethical Issues http://www.writework.com/essay/nike-social-and-ethical-issues Nike has become one of those global companies targeted by a broad range of campaigning pressure groups and journalists as a symbolic representation of the business in society. In Nikes case, the issues are those of human rights and conditions for workers in factories in developing countries. In the face of constant accusations, Nike has developed a considered response but the criticism of Nike still
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