Word: sweatshops
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...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...
...think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. I have fond feelings for American Apparel, the non-sweatshop casual clothing store. Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's has become a national campaigner for doing something about this inequality of wealth and income and for more corporate accountability. So yes, there are plenty of good examples...
...another Delhi neighborhood, Sami Alam, 8, tells of escaping earlier in the week from a sweatshop where he'd worked as a cook for nine months. His parents had sent him to Delhi from his native Bihar, in exchange for cash. "I didn't know how to cook, so the owner would beat me," he says, showing scars on his frail arms...