Name: Wu, Lin (Jack)
Instructor: Monica Isabel Farias
GEOG 123A, HW #5
Date: 03/15/2015
Has GE abused Chinese Workers? The Survey of a GE Supplier in Xiamen
I. Introduction
General Electric (GE) is an American transnational conglomerate corporation incorporated in New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Jeffrey R. Immelt is the current chairman and CEO of GE. As illustrated on its official website, GE “imagines things others don’t, builds things others can’t and delivers outcomes that make the world work better”, and it “brings together the physical and digital worlds in ways no other company can”. From the map above, it can be obviously referred that GE has already established five subsidiaries, nine global research centers, ten other business sites, and a variety of global sites in the world. The products of GE are also being sold on five …show more content…
The multinational conglomerate corporations have shared the technique with its supplier, but they have not considered the harm from local determinants, such as exposure to hazards, injury, and health education (Sparke, 365). No matter GE or other sweatshops, what they considered are just the low wage expense and high revenues from establishing co-packers at China or other similar nations, they have ignored the physical and mental health of their employees. The responses of GE and Topstar are both inadequate because they have not protected the basic human rights of the employees, but still cultivated them as the “machine of working.” If both GE and Topstar could guarantee the workers’ rights, decrease the rate of loss on veteran workers, as well as increase the productive rate, it would be a double-win for the corporation and employees. Conversely, the most critical thing to do for GE and Topstar is to eliminate the long-standing discrimination and exploitation on workers, so that the workers could be treated well and get necessary
Instructor: Monica Isabel Farias
GEOG 123A, HW #5
Date: 03/15/2015
Has GE abused Chinese Workers? The Survey of a GE Supplier in Xiamen
I. Introduction
General Electric (GE) is an American transnational conglomerate corporation incorporated in New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Jeffrey R. Immelt is the current chairman and CEO of GE. As illustrated on its official website, GE “imagines things others don’t, builds things others can’t and delivers outcomes that make the world work better”, and it “brings together the physical and digital worlds in ways no other company can”. From the map above, it can be obviously referred that GE has already established five subsidiaries, nine global research centers, ten other business sites, and a variety of global sites in the world. The products of GE are also being sold on five …show more content…
The multinational conglomerate corporations have shared the technique with its supplier, but they have not considered the harm from local determinants, such as exposure to hazards, injury, and health education (Sparke, 365). No matter GE or other sweatshops, what they considered are just the low wage expense and high revenues from establishing co-packers at China or other similar nations, they have ignored the physical and mental health of their employees. The responses of GE and Topstar are both inadequate because they have not protected the basic human rights of the employees, but still cultivated them as the “machine of working.” If both GE and Topstar could guarantee the workers’ rights, decrease the rate of loss on veteran workers, as well as increase the productive rate, it would be a double-win for the corporation and employees. Conversely, the most critical thing to do for GE and Topstar is to eliminate the long-standing discrimination and exploitation on workers, so that the workers could be treated well and get necessary