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...convince auditors that a sound leadership structure is in place. Factory owners can also buy computer software that presets the times when workers punch in and out, so no illegal overtime shows up on time cards. Lower-tech tactics, employed across Asia, include keeping double books, coaching workers on correct answers for auditors and paying bonuses to reward workers for passing audits. "It's like a nuclear arms race," says Ian Spaulding, managing director of Infact Global Partners, a compliance consultant and former director of global compliance for a large U.S. retailer. "The auditors do one thing, so the factory...
...Most big companies still operate what NGOS have called the "comply or die" model, in which factories are given a couple of months and little support to correct mistakes. "Historically, corporate social responsibility has been this top-down approach," says Khan. "The buyers are afraid, so they push down their ideas onto the factories." But it's often unrealistic to impose these Western CSR ideals overseas. "We've transferred the jobs to the developing world," says Hurst. "But we haven't transferred the skills or expertise needed to provide decent jobs." Many companies don't care (as long...
...History, as it turns out, is on both their sides. Lee is correct that African-Americans played an instrumental role in World War II, in which more than 1 million black servicemen helped defeat the Axis Powers. Those efforts include significant contributions to the fight for Iwo Jima. An estimated 700 to 900 African-American soldiers participated in the epic island battle, many of whom were Marines trained in segregated boot camps at Montford Point, within Camp Lejeune, North Carolina...
...Eastwood is also correct that black soldiers represented a small fraction of the total force deployed on the island. That argument doesn't placate Yvonne Latty, a New York University professor and author of a book about African-American veterans. Black soldiers "had the most dangerous job," she says. "If you were going to show the soldiers' landing, you'd need to show [African-Americans] on the beach." In Flags of Our Fathers, which shows the landing in significant detail, African-Americans appear only in fleeting cutaway shots and in a photograph during the film's closing credits...
...Advocates of globalization are correct that free trade and free markets have raised average incomes around the world. The World Bank reports that the proportion of people living on less than $2 a day shrank from 67% in 1981 to 47% in 2004. But $2 still isn't very much. And other research, such as a 2004 report by the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, has found that while the average person might be better off in absolute terms, he or she is often relatively worse off: 59% of the planet's population lives in countries with...