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Neoliberalism is an ideology and policy that promotes free market capitalism. This translates to promotion of competition of profit, minimal states, and privatization. The effect of neoliberal policies was shown in the documentary, The True Cost. The True Cost shows that the garment industry is greed and exploitation base to achieve the best sourcing efficiency. The owners would pressurize the worker to work for low wages and unsafe working condition due to greed and competition. The video showed that they are rich getting richer and the poor remained poor. This idea of rich getting richer was enhanced by reading because it explains how capitalism has changed everything to a profit base intention. The documentary displayed the effect of neoliberal …show more content…

Due to the lack of resources and supplies in every country, the countries depends on each other for those resources. Correspondingly, I use to believe that interdependency is a great way to benefit both parties because one party will receive the resource and the other party would receive money for that given resource. However, the reading challenged my idea because it talked about the effect of neoliberal policies on interdependency. It talked about how develop countries exploited developing countries to receive the most benefit because everything is a competition to gain wealth upon wealth. A win lose concept is shown in the documentary, as the US relies on the third world countries to produce garments that are sold in the US. However, the US capitalistic industry exploited the third world countries owners by saying that they need to produce at a lower cost and if they are not able to produce at the given cost demanded by the US, the US will take its business elsewhere for cheaper. The developing countries’ factory owners would get scared that they will lose that little of profit, if they do not satisfy the demand. Hence the workers are put into dangerous conditions and wages are lowered to meet the develop countries …show more content…

As well as, I was very careless on spending money on clothing for each event or buying clothes and never actually wearing them because of the sale prices that were marketed in the stores. After, understanding the commodity chain, I am more cautious about my selection of clothes and other items because the cheap clothes that we buy are not cheap, it is actually costing others’ lives. As well as, knowing the terms independency and commodities, I was able to relate those to idea to understand the effect of independency on the producers in the third world countries. The documentary showed that US relies on Bangladesh for clothing, but people in Bangladesh are paying large cost to make the clothes. The population in the environment showed that the kids there have developed many illness and cancers because the water, air, and food are polluted with the chemical, chromium

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As time went on the factories got cleaner, workers received better pay and shorter working hours. It all seemed like a fantastic dream to the employees at large factories as their lives slowly changed from horrible to livable situations. “Those comforts are not used only by a few, but are within the reach of almost all men,” (Document #9). Although the rich entrepreneurs enjoyed the spoils of what would now be considered sweatshops for a long time, the poor was not left out. Everyone’s life improved, no matter how little, as the reforms took effect.

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In the video the producer takes the perspective of three children to show different points of view from the different kids in different scenarios everyday. In the video the producer also uses a theme which is survival. This is because he show these kids having to work every day in the freezing cold and blazing heat to make enough money to barley

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So in short, factory workers are subjected to long hour, poor pay, dangerous and unsanitary working conditions in the sweatshop. Let’s have a further

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The film gives us examples of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Human Resources/ Human Capital (HR/HC), and ethics. We are shown Capitalism at its finest, consumerism, globalization, ethical fashion, out sourcing, labour

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It holds that the social good will be maximized by maximizing the reach and frequency of market transactions, and it seeks to bring all human action into the domain of the market.’ (p. 3) However, this thinking is simply a way to justify the policies used to restore class power while leaving the lower classes to fend for themselves. One of the many ways neoliberalism was able to be implemented was because neoliberal policy makers marketed it as a programmatic attempt to bring back individual freedoms. However, the “freedoms it embodies reflect the interests of private property owners, businesses, multinational corporations and financial capital.”

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The impact of sweatshop labor creates an atmosphere of financial instability, adversity, and false hope for exploited workers, which lacks viable government mitigation and intervention. Factory labor is not

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The United States used to have these sweatshop conditions in many places most famously new york and these third world countries are following in the footsteps of the United States and other first world countries. They are going to have to follow in the steps of governments and social reforms if they want to solve the problems of sweatshops and that come with them. People shouldn 't be losing their lives working at these factories but change doesn 't happen overnight and it takes the efforts of many citizens around the world to fix these

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These ideologies are inherently tied to what was clearly a consumer culture. “I shop therefore I am, Citizenship is to be manifested through the free exercise of personal choice among a variety of marketed options” (Rose, 230). This quote somehow embodies what this culture was about, to be a good neoliberal citizen was to be a good consumer. It is also evident that consumption was not limited to commodities, humans of this era could consume time, experience and other people’s versions of themselves; neoliberal ideology when combined with dynamic capitalist systems favour a business of commodities, place and self (Hall et al, 10) . Furthermore, neoliberalism places emphasis on these various consumer practices in order for humans to establish

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Political neoliberalism can be referred as the combined progressive ideologies of free-trade policies and a global market liberalism. It is mostly performed by a wide spectrum of investors and corporations in order to create and shape, according to their interests, economic and social policies. For example, the United States and its neoliberal politics orient Latin American economies to the exportation of raw unprocessed material, manufactured products and wide networks of undocumented migrant workers trafficking. The United States with the militarization for the “protection” of its borderlands. Neoliberal economic policies tend to lead to the inequality of entities overall, even though the portrayal of its principles is set to make believe

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One of these elements includes the fact that most sweatshops are established in third world nations- India, Africa, Vietnam, just to name a few. Today, “3,000 sweatshops employing perhaps 50,000 workers or more exist in New York. Another 1,500 to 2,000 sweatshops, according to Mr. von Nostitz, exist in Los Angeles, several hundred in Chicago, and more in other cities, particularly cities in the Sun Belt with large immigrant populations.” (Serrin, William) Due to the poverty, sweatshops were created for manufacturers to receive “easy money”, and for the population of these countries to get paid any source of income.

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