The Industrial Revolution’s factory system was an inadequate experience for laborers thanks to long, taxing working days and the lack of concern towards the personal hygiene of factory workers. The average workday for factory laborers was approximately ten hours, starting at six A.M. and ending at half past five P.M (A Working Day in a Manchester Cotton Mill 155). This was very demanding to factory workers when compared to today’s 9-to-5 workday, which is still considered tedious. Also, the punishments for not meeting the requirements for the workday were very harsh. For the act of being even momentarily late to work, workers were charged twopence, and some factories would even close the gates of the factory, which disallowed workers from going to their job if tardy (A Working Day in a Manchester Cotton Mill 154).
With the economy in the shape it is, it makes those full-time jobs seem like only part-time jobs. “We are spending more money fighting poverty than ever before, yet poverty is up,” said Michael D. Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “Clearly we are doing something wrong.”( Poverty Stats Show the Damage) Specialists say the government needs to rethink their calculations of poverty. According to Carol Morello’s article, “Poverty Stats Show the Damage,” about 44 million Americans (one in seven) lived in homes at the poverty level. For a family of four that level is $22,000 annually or less.
Factory staff said they worked up to 84 hours weeks, without access to clean drinking water. According to new research by charity War on Want, workers stitching Primark clothes in Bangladesh earn so little that they cannot eat properly, and many end up "malnourished". This is a prime example of unethical behavior that in the shareholders opinions is morally wrong.By law, workers should be paid £5.73 an hour and Primark's own code of conduct promises workers a living wage and its clothes should be made in safe and hygienic
Ethics within the Apparel Industry Sweatshops are found worldwide, they are factories in the apparel industry that operate illegally, forcing workers to work long hours in horrible working conditions at a low salary. Often these workers are obligated to work under such condition not by choice, but rather they are obligated. These workers are often immigrants that are threatened with legal action, accused of committing crimes or ordinary people that are abducted and forced to work for free, frequently threatened with death. These workers are restricted from ethical rights. Sweatshops have always been an issue within the Apparel Industry; companies seek out cheap alternatives to having mass production of clothing for cheaper rates.
According to the United Nations, more than 200 million Chinese workers risk serious damage to their health from occupational disease. Since they often carry out the most dangerous jobs, migrant workers are particularly susceptible to occupational diseases and work-related accidents. At the end of 2005, China officially recorded 665,043 cases of disease or illness caused by workplace condition.” It’s hard to believe our country buys products from people that are forced to have to work in such a bad environment. I say forced because people are basically forced to work because that’s how they have to survive and provide for their families.
Yes, Wal-Mart provides many uneducated Americans with job however it isn’t a job from which can make livable wage. Wal-Mart pays all their employees besides management minimum wage. With prices on the rise like they are today it is hard for a person to live off minimum wage which is currently 7 dollars and 25 cents in New York. Not to mention if you have kids it is virtually impossible to live off minimum wage and if you do it’s an unpleasing struggle. Another problem is that there is no growth in your field if you work at Wal-Mart.
Life as a convict was hard. Male convicts were given a ration of 3kg beef, 3kg flour, and 0.9kg sugar every week(women were given less), since the crops did not grow and they had to rely on supplies from England. For the first few years, convicts often lived wearing their own clothes that they bought, although they received 2 jackets, a waistcoat, a pair of breeches, 2 shirts, a woollen cap, a hat and 2 pairs of shoes and stockings. Convicts would be punished at a moments notice, for minor things like swearing, having a poor attitude, being drunk, stealing things and not doing work. They would be punished by the cat-o'-nine tails (flogging) which were nine
Nike tells their factories what material, color, and design, and the factories, having no say in what they create, make it1. Most of their factories are in developing countries such as China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Pakistan, just to name a few of the 36 countries the use to make shoes for their global company12. The Nike factories while getting better have been ridiculed since the early 1970’s for unfair treatment of workers such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, forced overtime and much more, and unfair wages16. In 1998 the workers in many of the factories employees were getting around $1.25/per day; sometimes their days were as long as 16hrs a day14. Nike since then has been making progress to better their factories for their employees2.
When they do have inspectors come in, they tell the people who work there to lie. If they lie then they are rewarded, but if they tell the truth they are either terminated from their position or, in some cases, punished. Along with the terrible work conditions in the factories outside of the United States, the employees who work within the U.S. are treated terribly. From the amount they are paid to the discrimination to the lies that they tell. “In 2001, the average pay of a Wal-Mart worker was $8.23 per hour, more than two dollars less per hour than the average supermarket employee wage of $10.35 per hour.
The Peepoo factories produce up to half a million of Peepoo bags a day. Their aim is to produce for about 150 million each day. The article is written for the low class as the Peepoo is meant for the poor people and people who had been on incidents such as flooding, earthquake etc. There is no rhythm in this article, it is just written in a normal way. The style used is hypotaxis.