The book, The Circle, follows Mae Holland, who has recently graduated college and gets a job at The Circle through her best friend and college roommate Annie. The circle is a powerful technology company run by these people who call themselves the “Three Wise Men". She starts her career here working in the company 's customer service department known as customer experience. It is clear she is a natural and in no time she climbs the ranks of the company. The Circle develops a variety technologies; one that serves relevance to the story is the SeeChange.
Sweatshirts from Sweatshops: Intellectual Standards and Logical Fallacies The essay “Sweatshirts from Sweatshops” was a persuasive piece that covered the issues of companies overseas that thrive through the exploitations of its workers. The reading selection depicted the behind the scenes activities that actually occurs with the mistreated workers and also the morality of such treatments. Throughout the essay, the reader can assume the writer’s overall objective was to discourage their audience from wearing such attire until their school decides to switch their apparel supplier. The writer also violated a few universal intellectual standards as well as a few logical fallacies.
WHERE SWEATSHOPS ARE A DREAM The author, Nicholas D. Kristof, begins to inform readers president Barack Obama is concerned about labor standards in the first sentence; afterward, the author gives descriptive detail on a place named Phnom Penh “The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn. Then the smoke parts and you come across a child ambling barefoot, searching for old plastic cups that recyclers will buy for five cents a pound. Many families actually live in shacks on this smoking garbage.”
Ravisankar begins his essay by saying that being a poor college student always try to low prices for clothing and other things. He identified a lot of problems in the essay. The problems he talked about was how the low cost driven consumerism is the high human cost that achieve lower and lower prices, how workers were forced to work in 70-80 hours per week that only earns them pennies a hour, and how they stay over to work extra hours and new get paid for it. In the sweatshop they have unsanitary bathrooms, poor ventilation and extreme heat that also has became a problem. Ravisankar thinks that his readers are poor college students that help get through college.
On Monday, March 30, 2015, Matt Zwolinski presented and virtually debated Michael Kates at Georgetown University. Lasting about twenty minutes, Zwolinski provided three pillars supporting the idea of sweatshops during his presentation. Later on, Michael Kates provided a counterexample involving sex tourism which also seemed to be supported by Zwolinski’s principles (Jaworski). However, between the services provided and products produced by sex tourism and sweatshops, there is a significant moral difference, primarily due to the inherent nature of the respective works. In this paper, I will summarize Matt Zwolinski’s views supporting sweatshops and distinguish how there is a moral difference between exploiting someone into sweatshop labor and
Coakley and Kates: Challenging Sweatshop Labor In their criticism of sweatshop labor, Coakley and Kates consider the morality of sweatshop labor through a welfarist lens similar to that of Powell and Zwolinski’s. To begin, Coakley and Kates summarize Powell and Zwolinski’s pro-sweatshop argument as a set of three premises: Sweatshops are better for workers than the available alternatives. Regulating sweatshop labor will lead to a decrease in sweatshop employment.
The issue of sweatshops affects everyone, whether directly or indirectly. A sweatshop is defined as “a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions” (“Sweatshops”). For low wages, sweatshop workers often work in small, cramped spaces with health and safety hazards from chemicals and equipment. Many of them even experience physical violence on the job (El Nasser).The use of sweatshops by companies, a controversial business practice, brings up not only economic arguments, but strong ethical stances as well. Unethical practices could hurt a business’s public relations and cause stock prices and profits to drop so it is in a company’s best interest to be ethical.
Most people think that sweatshops only exist in countries outside of the United States, but they also exist in the United States. Our country plays a large part in the development of sweatshops and how they have became such a popular topic in less developed countries. Immigrants and undocumented workers in the United States also resort to factories and sweatshops as a safe way to make money. “Meanwhile, popular organizing against sweatshop labor is also gaining momentum. These groups try to capitalize on the knowledge that, if the general public were aware of the conditions in which certain consumer items were produced, they would refrain from buying
Sweatshops have existed prior to the 1980s during the Industrial Revolution. In the United States, however, sweatshops were being used to create college apparel. College students during this era were were oblivious and did not realize who were the people creating the college apparel sold in their school’s bookstores. The rise of sweatshops arose when there was a decline of transportation and communication costs since the 1960s, thus the garment manufacturers were left to move their factories overseas to avoid the high wages of U.S. labor (Featherstone). Consequently, these factories only hired women, who underwent severe treatment from their supervisors.
This paper compares USA and China ethics, drawing their similarities and differences in different levels. Thesis statement China and USA are the leading countries in terms of economic growth. The ethics governing the two countries have played a significant role in shaping their economies and also foster the main challenges the two governments are facing. The ethics of different states vary and ethical dilemmas are often; in this case, the paper comparatively analyzes the ethics of China and USA.
It might seem clear that this is morally wrong; however, there are others who voice a different opinion on the issue. Regardless, the conditions workers are put under in these factories calls for attention and raises
Manufacturers are defied with a plenty of ethical subjects, for example, youngster work, fair working conditions, fair wages, and the biological manageability of their generation systems, protected innovation right infringement and fakes, to give some examples. Ostensibly, tyke work is the issue where most assertion exists. On the other hand, in spite of the unethical, baseless and corrupting nature of kid work, it is still an issue in numerous creating nations. The issue is exacerbated when sub-temporary workers are included. Nike, for example, has been censured in the media incalculable times as a purveyor of tyke work.
I have been writing to you to tell you about sweatshops. I bet you didn't know that sweatshops are a place where people work then get paid 6 cents an hour and work about 20 hours a day. I have learned about sweatshops and how they affect every person in the world, Even you and me. Did you know all most every company, even my best-loved brand Guess uses sweatshops to make there products? 90% of the things we buy from big store are made by people who work in sweatshops.
Who are the employers and employees of a sweatshop? Many multinational companies decide to build sweatshops in foreign and developing countries. By doing this, they reduce production costs, produce cheaper labor, and sell to consumers at an inexpensive price. At large, the ones who are willing to work for these companies are the ones to thank for the cheap price tag on dresses labeled, “Made in Bangladesh.”
For example, McDonald is a big company yet, they pay their employee’s minimum wage and neither do they provide health
