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...only envy. Demand estimates that it took in $200 million in revenue in 2009, enough to turn a profit. It helps that none but the company's most prolific content creators get health insurance or, for that matter, a minimum hourly wage. Critics have dubbed the company a digital sweatshop. Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University, has called Demand "demonic," and many writers prickle at the thought of being paid a few cents - rather than a few dollars - per word...
...manufacturing company like Nike to make a similar move, given the fact that many such companies employ low-paid factory workers who earn pennies a day. For example, a 2008 National Labor Committee report called into question the new Sesame Street dolls, which were allegedly made under sweatshop conditions. Just recently, the NLC released a report on the abject conditions in a Reebok sweatshop in San Salvador. According to the report, workers are paid ten cents for each eighty-dollar jersey they make. Unfortunately, the NLC notes that this pay only “amounts to twenty three percent...
...regulation and the ability to externalize other costs, namely the environmental impact. This has then indirectly improved China's lot. How has China otherwise added value or changed the world for the better in modern times? Innovations? Improvements to the human condition? Global benevolence? Becoming the world's temporary sweatshop and biggest copycat does not place one in the league of great nations or ensure superpower status. So, on turning 60 what is going to be your real contribution to the world, China? Spare us another goose-stepping parade, please. Marcus Blackie, Perth, Australia...
...neighborhood gang warfare. Franco is a waste management official who oversees the Camorra’s side business of illegally dumping toxic waste, poisoning the local farmland. And there’s Pasquale, the tailor who incurs the wrath of the Camorra when he helps a Chinese clothing sweatshop owner competing with mafia business. In the vein of “21 Grams” and “Syriana,” the film is organized in the hyperlink cinematic fashion, and the connections between each character are never directly made. But these individuals are all tiny pieces ensnared...
...worldwide recession pending, it’s debatable as to whether or not Am Ap can maintain its position and push on with business as usual. The reason for this lies within one of the company’s original concepts: to shift away from industry standard, overseas sweatshop labor. In the late 90s and early oughts—a.k.a. when things were absurdly good on Wall Street—the idea of using expensive labor to make traditionally cheap goods was possible because a large number of people were willing to pay over the “Made...