Research Findings

Questions:

What is the purpose of corporations using young teens in sweat-shop labor?

What are the effects of people working with no fair labor standards?

“Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation” by Matt Zwolinski

            Summary: This article is called Sweatshops, choice and exploitation and it talk about the different reasons that people accept these conditions to work in sweatshops. For example, they have the choice to not work in those conditions yet they take the opportunity that the people who direct the sweatshops give them because they want to be freed. They don’t work to get luxury and expensive products, they only work to survive. It also describes how the government and other third parties deprive from refraining sweatshop labors and deprive workers from accepting the jobs their.

Quotes:

 “ Sweatshop workers do not generally choose to work in order to gan some extra disposable income for luxuries, or simply  to take pleasure in the activity of working.” (Zwolinski 692)

“.. there is a strong moral reason for third parties such as  consumers and host and home country  governments to refrain from acting in ways which are likely to deprive sweatshops workers of their jobs, and that both the policies traditionally promoted by anti sweatshop activists…”( Zwolinski 690)

These two quotes helped me understand the question that I posed because it is giving me the answers of why people accept sweatshop labor. Also, it is giving me an idea of how corporations get a benefit of having them working there. It gives me the understanding that corporations and the government know that it exists and they do not do anything to stop it. maybe they are doing that because they get profit out of them.

Key concepts:

·      Policies

·      Voluntary self-regulation

·      Standards

·      Violating others rights

“A search for standards to monitor labor conditions worldwide” by S prakash sethi

Summary: This article is describing and telling the reader how the corporations actually work. It is letting us know how they think and why sweatshops happen, they happen because laws are not being enforced in those places where the companies move. Corporations, move to other countries because it is easier to exploit workers and give them harsh working conditions, yet, they will still work no matter how much they get paid or how much they have to work because they need the cents to survive.

Quotes:

“MNCs use both the fact and threat of moving their purchases and capital to another country in order to extract maximum productivity gains from cheap and abundant labor.” pG 272

            This quote is explaining why the corporations take their labor to other countries because its easier to exploit people that are in need of jobs. This can help me go further in my ideas because it is giving me the understanding that corporations are violating the laws by going somewhere else where the laws are not being enforced.

“Local corruption creates conditions for non-enforcement of even weak laws with regard to worker safely, health, wages, and working conditions.” Pg273

Key concepts:

·      Exploitation

·      Corruption

·      Laws not being enforced