Naomi Klein, author of the book No Logo, shares in this documentary of the same name that she wrote the book to raise awareness of the rise of multinational companies and the negative affects they have on the world. Klein discusses how she began to realize this shift in the mid-90s, where companies stopped just producing products and started producing “images of” products. Companies were no longer just interested in the things they made; they became aware that their brand needed a face that would be known globally. They began advertising lifestyles that could only be fulfilled with their products. Because less concern was going into the manufacturing aspect, more and more companies started to outsource in order to expand and cheapen.…
In the essay “The Noble Feat of Nike” by Johan Norberg speaks about how the shoe company “Nike” effected Vietnam. It describes how the Nike factories use poor countries like Vietnam to gain maximum profit by paying poor wage to workers in return. In addition, they provided workers air conditioned buildings, meal plan opportunities, and insurance in case of any health problems. Norberg argues about how the company Nike isn’t exploiting the worker in Vietnam. In fact, he interviewed workers in the factory and they seem to be happy and find it beneficial to them.…
When workers demanded additional rights and benefits in these countries, the Nike factories closed and moved to a different place that would allow them to continue operating at a low cost. , Nike was heavily criticized for selling goods produced in sweatshops in the 90’s The workers making Nike’s Converse brand sneakers in Indonesia had been complaining and saying that their supervisors regularly physically assaulted and verbally abused them. Nike admits that abuses occurred but insists there was little it could do to stop it. One worker said a supervisor kicked her after she made a mistake.…
In 1991 the activist Jeff Ballingrer have published a report verifying the bad working conditions and low salaries in Indonesia. That was when; it was discovered and condemned by most of its consumers that Nike was producing a big number of its garments by people working in very low conditions. This caused decrease in the company’s sales due to consumer’s…
I once attended a protest to raise the minimum wage and stop income inequality. Here, I heard stories of mothers, students, single fathers, and immigrants who were disadvantaged in so many ways, speaking of their financial hardships. One 15 year old spoke of her disabled mother and 9 siblings who she worked 40 hours a week at Burger King to help support while maintaining her 4.0 GPA in the hopes of someday becoming a nurse. She spoke about how her $8 an hour turned to $6 after having taxes taken out and how that money took food out of her siblings mouth, robbed her mother of proper medical attention and took the bus fare she used to get to her home, work and school right out of her pocket. A mother of 6 who was a home health aide stepped up…
In Nike’s opinion, their ability to compete on cost depended on the low wages paid to their overseas manufacturing companies. However, if quality was emphasized over low-cost, then the company would be able to increase the wages yet still retain its customer base. Nike also believes its unfair for them to pay higher wages to their foreign employees when other companies do the same thing; this is a moral fallacy, and Nike should change their ways of thinking about wages in Vietnam and try to give them the equivalent of an average American citizen’s purchasing…
Minimum wages were introduced to assist employees from being exploited, but is it affect-ing employees opportunity to find work? Minimum wages are set to prevent low paid work-ers from being exploited by their employers who would pay them otherwise. The minimum wage is “a level of pay for workers, usually set by the government or collective bargaining” (Minimum wage, 2015). Economists believe minimum wages are the cause of unemploy-ment. If employers were allowed to ‘fall below the minimum level some employers would be prepared to take on more worker’s”…
Statement of the Problem The problem in this dissertation, is the quality of life for low-income households in the United States continues to decline, as the minimum wage have not caught up with the cost of living. In this study, the quality of life is composed of four major factors; higher education, health care, housing and social interaction (Albright & Brannon, 2014; Barron, 2014; Campolieti et al, 2014; Rogers, 2014; Smith, 2015). While in the past, the federal government has established policies to combat the war on poverty and improve the livelihood of low-income families (The Department of Health and Human Services, 2016); however, these policies have been ineffective and insufficient for millions of low-income families who continues to…
Minimum Wage Raising minimum wage is like is like dressing up a monkey. The clothing makes him look better, but yet you still have a monkey. Everything that looks good isn’t always good. Raising minimum wage may look or sound good, but the effects of society with the increase will be traumatic and not in a good way. If the minimum wage is increased where does all the extra money come from?…
This ongoing departure from employing third world workers continues with Nike and competitor New Balance recent shift away from sweatshop labor to US jobs due to US tariffs and the current negative public perception of sweatshop labor. Business Insider editor Ashley Lutz reported on the fact that Nike has tried to rebuild its public image by paying fewer sweatshop workers more while gradually relying more on automation. Even though the boycotts stopped, the negative perception of sweatshop labor continues to lead to less jobs for third world workers.…
What is the minimum wage? Minimum wage can be defined as the amount of compensation an employee must receive for a specific job by an employer. These are special acts enforced to prevent employers compensating employees less than the minimum wage set by the government. Before the minimal wage was introduced in the United States in the early 1900s, New Zealand was the first country to enacted minimal wage laws in 1894. This law covered businesses and industries across its entire nation.…
Nike has the following stakeholders, arranged according to the firm’s prioritization: customers, communities, employees, government, and interest groups. The customers is the stakeholder most important, the customer can help the company by purchasing products producing growth sales revenues with the customer being satisfied by the high quality product and building a relationship with the…
The company’s focus and vision is to first and foremost “serve the athlete” by providing superior products to the athletes. Nike, Inc. markets these products with intense focus on what an athlete desires, also a product that would suit the general population. The company recognizes that innovation will be what spurs the shift to sustainability. Nike, Inc. have developed three objectives that fall in line with their mission statement; Innovation to serve the athlete, innovation to grow the company and innovation to inspire the…
Nike, a leading athletic shoes brand, has travelled around the world, with more than 147000 shops over 140 countries (Desborttes, 2016). This is the result of globalization – a process in which the world is interconnected in myriad aspects. As a result, it is vigorously debated whether economic globalization leads to homogeneity and loss of social diversity. Social diversity is a term that refers to a rich variety of different cultures, different ethnics, races, ages, genders, languages, lifestyle within a society. Although it is believed that diversity is threatened by globalization, there are multitude of testimonies that globalization promote social diversity.…
From an early age, kids are shown that they need to acquire university education to receive a job. That they need basic skills learned in school to have a superior level of comprehension for the job. The search begins for the ideal job. While companies are eagerly waiting to refresh the line-up of fresh, creative faces into their organization, the question of how much they pay is glorified. Thereby, the degree of pay a person can accumulate from a job is stemmed by the Government and not the companies.…