PPT-Sweatshops

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. 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. . - 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). Sweatshops.. In Australia, there are 300,000 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. 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..