PPT-Sweatshops

Sweatshops In Australia there are 300000 people making clothes for our major retailers designers and suppliers of school uniforms who work for between 2 and 3 an hour They have no or minimal entitlements holidays sick leave etc work in conditions that risk their. Landon 1 Professor Frail l y ENG - 233 - IN1 10 September 2013 Sweatshops and Sweethearts: How Cahan Connects Readers to C haracters The Jews a re the problem. At least, so claimed John Commons, a n Department of Philosophy University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego CA 92110 mzwolinski@sandiego.edu For more information on sweatshops, please see my essay: Landon 1 Professor Frail l y ENG - 233 - IN1 1 7 September 2013 Sweatshops and Sweethearts: How Cahan Connects Readers to Characters The Jews are the problem. At least, so claimed John Commons, a n 1820-Present. 1820–1880: The Seamstress Impoverished . Seamstresses were familiar figures in early 19th-century American cities, filling the needs of an expanding garment industry. . Working at home, they stitched bundles of pre-cut fabric into clothing worn by Southern slaves, Western miners, and New England gentlemen. . A sweatshop is defined as a factory that violates 2 or more labour laws..  . Sweatshops often have poor working conditions, unfair wages, unreasonable hours, child labour, and a lack of benefits for workers.. - THE PROBLEM.  . ONLINE GAME.  . PRIMARK COLLAPSE. SWEATSHOP. a factory or . workshop. . where . workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.. NEGATIVE (NIKE). Last Notes for this Unit!. The Ring of Fire: . Many Japanese cities are threatened by earthquakes . This is because Japan is part of the Ring of Fire. A chain of volcanoes that line the Pacific Rim . Apple. Apple have opened the doors to their Chinese 'sweatshop' factories where employees are paid as little as £1.12 an hour. .. Many of the staff perform monotonous tasks like wiping down screens or shaving . . – . A cheap alternative and foreign economic stimulus?. or a series of brutal exploitations?. Why International Factories?. Cheaper. Less skilled work needed. Faster. Saves skilled workers for more skilled work. by: Ben Thompson. Nike has 43 factories and one hundred and sixty thousand workers in Indonesia alone. . W. orkers are making a mere dollar and twenty-five cents a day.. Kids are being forced to work long, . What is happening here?. Improving Sweatshops. Learning Objective:. To understand ways in which the world’s sweatshops can be improved.. Learning Outcomes:. By the end of the lesson:. All will have been able to identify ways to improve Sweatshops . .. Many of the staff perform monotonous tasks like wiping down screens or shaving . aluminium. from the edge of the Apple logo for ten tedious hours at a time. .. And now the conditions inside the factory in Shenzhen - where 18 employees have killed themselves - can be seen, after ABC TV network were given exclusive access..