Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Week 12 - Sweatshops

3 Definitions of sweatshops

A sweatshop is a working environment with conditions that are considered by many people of industrialized nations to be difficult or dangerous ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshops

sweatshop - factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

sweatshop - a factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweatshop

Illegal conditions can include child labor, sub-minimum wages, and near slave-like treatment of human beings.

Using Internet research, find out at least 2 companies that use sweatshop produced goods.

Comment on at least one peers posting.

25 comments:

  1. International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and Charles Kinsley's Cheap Clothing and Nasty

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  2. Two companies that use sweatshop labor are Sears Roebuck and Co and Calvin Klein Co.

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  3. calvin klein an garment workers

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  4. Two companies that use sweatshop labor are the disney corp and old navy. These two companies use the labor to increase there profit thus increaing there stock worth. I think that these shops should do something to improve the conditions of there workers and increase there pay. On average the large companies that use this labor they could double the workers pay at the cost of only one percent of there profit.

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  5. I never knew that calvin lien used sweatshops zack

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  6. Thats sosad.....the least theycould do is improve working conditions and increase pay....then maybe it wouldn't be so inhumane

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  7. I would never imagine disney using children to make their stuff. Thats so terrible. Two other companies that use sweatsho[s are Nike and Hanes. These places only pay their workers as low as a dollar a day which is coimpletely ridiculous for the anount of work and time they do.

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  8. two companies that use sweatshops are GAP and addidas.

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  9. Wal-Mart and Toys R Us both use sweatshop labor. i agree with albie that the conditions should be improved, but that must also make the company look bad if its publically known that they use sweatshop labor.

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  10. I would have never thought that disney would have used children to make stuff seeing it is a children's attraction. One place that i found was GAP kids have been making the clothes and in the U.S children wear the clothes. Another one that shocked me was Nike i wouldnt have thought they used sweatshops.

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  11. Disney uses sweatshops?!omg!! 2 other companies that use sweatshops are American Eagle and Guess...so disapointing. These companies would have never crossed my mind when thinking sweatshops!

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  12. Calvin Klein and Garment Workers

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  13. Two Companies that use sweatshops are Calvin Klein Inc,and Sears. I can't believe that Disney uses sweatshops..Disney is a child friendly place..and yet they use children to make their items? Maybe disney isn't all that it makes it seem.

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  14. two companies that have sweatshops are disney and sears. this was very suprising to me excpecially disney and i know i just spelt that horribly wrong.

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  15. i found that nike and toys r us are two differant companies that have sweatshop produced goods. i had no idea that sweatshops were even around still and i agree with danielle when she said that those are companies that you wouldnt think would use sweatshops.

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  16. Walmart and Burberry both use sweatshops

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  17. Im shocked that Disney uses sweatshops becuse it is such a child oriented company

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  18. Well yeah almost everyone knows that Disney uses sweatshops. For the Disneys in other countries the sweatshops are even worse then the ones in the U.S.

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  19. Nike and Calvin klein both use sweatshops. i agree with most posts alot of these companies would be the last i'd suspect to use sweat shops, especially disney. you'd think these companies have enough money to fairly hire people to work for them

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  20. Two places that use sweatshops are Nike, and places like American Eagle.

    i would have never in my life thoght that Disney would use sweatshops. you would think that making so much money they wouldn't have to worry about cheaper production, and labor costs, but apparently that's not the case.

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  21. Calvin Klein and Old Navy

    I agree with jess, i wouldve never imagined that disney would use sweatshops

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  22. Gap and Levis Strauss are two companies that were both chrged in court for using sweatshops and i never thought disney would use sweatshops of all companies

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  23. Old Navy and Calvin Klein. They are brutal Kyle, That they actually had to be brought to court

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  24. Wal-Mart and Toys R Us both use sweatshop labor. this makes the company look bad, sometimes they are even brought to court.

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  25. Two companies that use sweatshop labor are Sears Roebuck and Co and Calvin Klein Co.

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