Unfree labour

Source 1 In source 1 you see 4 kids who are working in a factory and as you can tell there at a very young age, this is called child labor. Child labor was a big thing at the start of the industrial revolution in 1760. The children that were working when they were really young like 4 or 5, They also got payed very little for how much they worked, pressure of globalization led to trafficking and forced labor. Source 2 In source 2 we see lots of pollution, this was one of the downfalls of…

Money and Success Unlike slaves, we have no owner we are entitled to speak of what to believe and what we decide we want to pursue, we have the right to be heard when we are being mistreated and pursue law suits if needed. The question is why do people not object to what is going on around them? Been young and racing a child, not coming from a wealthy background and having to start on your own, or simply feeling they will get fired at a sign of complaint are just a couple of examples that…

Division of labor occurs when the work process is separated into a various number of tasks. Each worker or group of workers then specializes in completing a single task. It is used in mass production and is considered “one of the basic organizing principles of the assembly line. (Britannica, 2014). Specialization via division of labor has helped to eliminate the need for workers to handle multiple tools and minimized unnecessary motion. Through the repetition of simple basic tasks by…

Theory in Action: How Adam Smith and Marx & Engels understand UberX business model Uber, a smartphone application connecting Uber drivers and customers directly, enables customers to request an Uber cab to pick them up on site by simply tapping on their screen. Recently, Uber Company is undergoing waves of protests from drivers of UberX, a subdivision service of Uber in which drivers use their own vehicles. Drivers contend that they are earning much less than the company claims. This paper will…

hypothesizes the the true minimum wage should be enough to ensure subsistence. Subsistence is defined as the minimal amount of necessities, such as food and shelter, for laborers to maintain their health in order to return to work the following day (Marx, “Labour-Power and Capital,” p.50). I propose to test this hypothesis by looking at the United States’s (U.S.) minimum wage and whether it’s enough for low-wage workers to get by with. The method used to evaluate this hypothesis will be…

The Department of Labor manages and impels over 180 federal guidelines. These guide-lines and the procedures that enforce them encompass many office activities for around 10 mil-lion organizations and over 100 million employees. The great thing about labor laws is that it embraces all aspects of the legal rapport amongst organizations, workers, and worker labor un-ions. Organizations resistance to identifying workers privilege to systematize and bargain collec-tively with powers that be has…

Loving What You Do Many people are aspired to go out and do what they love, but have any of these people realized the consequence of doing so? In the article “In the Name of Love” Miya Tokumitsu protests against the do what you love (DWYL) concept along with the well-known speech given by Steve Jobs. Tokumitsu, who has a doctorate in Art History, disagrees with Jobs and goes on to say “The problem is it (DWYL) leads not to salvation but to the devaluation of actual work, including the very…

For this task I’ll be explaining the internal and external planning factors to consider for when planning the human resource requirements for business A There are many different factors within internal planning such as, demand for existing products and services and new products and new services, new markets, technological change, location of production, skills requirements. The first factor Tesco will consider are internal factors. By internal factors we mean the following: Demand for…

decision making body like the Labour Court to hear personal complaints and dispute between employee, unions and employer in 1987 to 1991. The Industrial Relation Act was replaced with voluntary arbitration means that unions and employers able to settle issues with minimum involvement of the court or third parties (Deeks, 1990). The new act required “registered unions have a minimum of 1000 members to process arbitrary award system”. Overall the new ideology and labour law is being led by Prime…

1. The job I have selected is JOB 1, the internship (sales assistant). The requirements are as follows: a minimum qualification of a matric certificate, in terms of personality the candidate must be ambitious, self-motivated, have a positive attitude and good communication skills. I believe I am qualified for this job because I poses a matric certificate and further more have distinctions in business studies ( which can be helpful in this field). I was a part of the public speaking team for 2…