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Sexism and Racism as a Means of Cheap Labor, 2002.
Evaluation of the idea that sexism and racism are an intentionally created phenomena for the intention of obtaining cheap labor.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper is a critical evaluation of three statements that can be reduced to one (the thesis). Sexism and racism are not accidental phenomena, but exist for the purpose of obtaining cheap labor.
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Politics of Child Labour, 2006.
An analysis of how globalization has shaped the meaning of child rights.
2,866 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 85.95
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Media portrayals of third world children making shoes, shirts, or rugs for sale in their homelands have provoked calls for trade sanctions and boycotts against companies and countries that use children as their cheap labour source. This paper argues that the simple abolition of child labour in a third world nation is not the best way of helping third world children. It looks at how one has to understand the complex relationship between child labour and the rights of children and their unique social, economic and cultural backgrounds and norms if one is to help improve living conditions of the marginalized group of children in third world nations.
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"According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there were some 211 million children ages five to fourteen at work in economic activity in the world in 2000, which is a little less than one-fifth of all children in this age group. Over one hundred and twenty million are employed full-time and one hundred and thirty million combine their works with non-economic activities, such as helping chores, running errands, or babysitting their younger siblings. In the Asia and Pacific region, nineteen per cent of children ages five to fourteen are economically active, Latin America and Caribbean sixteen per cent, and Sub-Saharan Africa twenty nine per cent. "
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Globalization and Global Labour Patterns, 2005.
An analysis of the factors leading to globalization and global labour patterns.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper discusses globalization and global labour patterns. The paper argues that in a globalized world corporations are determining the labour conditions in both developed and developing countries. It suggests that the corporations are essentially making cheap, unskilled and flexible labourers.
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"Globalization and Global Labour Patterns Globalization is one of the most controversial issues in politics and economics. In "Note on Terminalogy" David McNally defines globalization as, "The mainstream term for the new world Economy of the past twenty years" (McNally 9). How exactly has the world economy changed? While discussing the political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades Teeple explains, A system of highly integrated world trade was an irreversible fact by the end of the 1970s, confirmed and hastened by the new means of transportation and communications, whose increased productivity were transforming the worldwide distribution of products and hence the global conditions for valorization (Teeple 71)."
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Tourism as the Normalization of Oppression in Jamaica., 2006.
This paper describes how the tourism industry in Jamaica reinforced colonial elitism through the oppression of cheap labor.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper explains how Jamaica's tourist industry after 1960 reproduced colonial forms of oppression in an industry controlled by colonial elite investors and beneficiaries that capitalize on cheap labor supplies; explanation of results of mass tourism as pursued by various Third World countries, and in Jamaica's example; note higher basic costs, low industrial or other development, cultural decay; reinforcement of colonial/postcolonial elites in a dual economy and dual society of much poverty. Itwaru, Fanon, CLR James, plus other refs.
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"Jamaica is the third largest island in the Caribbean, discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1494, named earlier by the Arawak Indians, 'Xaymaca' or the 'land of wood and water'. The Spanish introduced slaves from Africa after 1513, as labourers in a new sugarcane industry. In 1655, Jamaica became a British colony, continuing on till its independence in 1962. Just before independence, economic development began that centered on cultivating tourism, in keeping with other emerging colonies of the British Commonwealth Caribbean. This paper shows that tourism involves a carrying on of colonial phenomenon in independent Jamaica, including the class gaps of a colonial society. The moneyed classes were those to invest directly..."
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Sweatshops, 2006.
Examines how certain U.S. companies exploit globalization by using cheap labor in third-world countries.
3,184 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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Since the 1960s, apparel production has continued to shift away from organized workforces toward a younger and more exploitable labor pool, especially in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The paper shows that the wheels of globalization, which are helping drive this trend, pick up momentum when cash-strapped governments entice large corporations by offering incentives such as the blood and sweat of their own people. Brand names like Nike, Wal-Mart's Kathie Lee Gifford, and the Gap have become synonymous with images of young women working in "sweatshop" conditions throughout the world. Indeed, reports of first-hand testimony from a number of people who have lived and worked in such conditions as well as documentation from sweatshops around the world provide ample proof of these conditions. This paper provides an overview of how some companies in the United States have violated the fundamental human rights of its workers overseas in an attempt to improve their corporate bottom lines, and discusses the possible consequences of the globalization process in the future.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
What is A Multinational Corporation?
Trends in Globalization and the End of Nationally Based Cultures
Advantages of the Internet and Telecommunications for the Multinational Corporation
How Multinational Corporations are Exploiting Workers
Conclusion
Works Cited
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"The greed demonstrated by Nike and other megacorporations which have exploited workers throughout the world is a short-term view of a global marketplace though. Beyond the overwhelming social and cultural issues at play (man should not exploit man as a natural law), it only makes good long-term business sense to provide better working conditions and wages for a company's workers overseas. As the standards of living improve throughout the world, the marketplace for everyone's good and services will increase proportionately. It is not inconceivable that some day soon, the people all over the world would enjoy a comparable standard of living, with the fundamental needs of mankind being met by the improvements in technology and overall increase of resources by virtue of this enhanced marketplace."
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Labor Issues around the World, 2005.
A look at the global problem of child labor.
1,161 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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This paper describes the problem of child labor and looks at the countries where it is most often practiced. The paper describes the horrible working and living conditions that these children are subjected to and looks at how some multinational companies take advantage of the cheap labor provided by child laborers instead of taking a moral stand against the problem.
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"Child labor is one of the worst social problems that exist in modern society (Yan, 2002). The term child labor brings images of exploited and uncared children. In the many areas that child labor exists, Indonesia is one that has an especially large percentage of children working at a young age. Government statistics reveal that 2.08 million children between the ages of 10-14 works in Indonesia are employed at dangerous places. Among these children, half work full time. The amount of work and hours these children have are the same as adults. Many children work under hazardous conditions as scavengers, garbage pickers and fishing platforms. For obvious reasons, this is one of the greatest labor issues faced by the country."
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?Fast, Cheap & Out of Control?, 2002.
A review of Errol Morris's documentary film "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control".
2,278 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper examines Errol Morris's film "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control", a documentary that takes four disparate individuals and features them and their unique jobs as part of an effort to suggest a number of ideas about America, about the future and about the value of personal obsession. The four men are Dave Hoover, a wild animal trainer; George Mendonca, a topiary gardener, Ray Mendez, a mole-rat specialist and Rodney Brooks, a robotics scientist. It discusses how the film has a non-linear narrative structure, intercutting interviews with the four men and developing an ongoing dialogue between the men and the unseen interviewer and how in a way that emphasizes what binds the four men together, while their jobs would seem to be such as to keep them apart in their different realms. It analyzes how the four men have their version of the truth and how they pursue it doggedly. It looks at how placing the four of them together as Morris does suggests that we each have our version of the truth as expressed in our own lives and our own choices, and just as these four obsessive men are brought to the fore to tell their stories.
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"The film is not static as might be expected from a work that is largely made up of responses by the four men. Their enthusiasm is itself infectious, but more than this, Morris gives movement to the work through his use of editing and music. The music in particular gives the film a lyrical tenor that suggests that it is a meditation by the filmmaker on the ideas being presented, and the filmmaker is shaping those ideas through the editing process. The four men are presented as essentially heroic, not in the sense of performing great feats, but in the sense of continuing with their particular obsession in the face of ridicule, potential failure, and other obstacles."
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Fast, Cheap and Out Of Control, 2000.
An analysis of the 1997 documentary by Errol Morris and its portraits of an animal trainer, topiary gardener, mole-rat expert and robotics scientist.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 31.95
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Errol Morris's film Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control (1997) is a documentary that takes four disparate individuals and features them and their unique jobs as part of an effort to suggest a number of ideas about America, about the future, and about the value of personal obsession. The four men are Dave Hoover, a Wild Animal Trainer; George Mendonca, a Topiary Gardener; Ray Mendez, a Mole Rat Specialist; and Rodney Brooks, a Robotics Scientist. The film has a non-linear narrative structure, intercutting interviews with the four men and developing an ongoing dialogue between the men and the unseen interviewer in a way that emphasizes what binds the four men together.
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"Errol Morris's film Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control (1997) is a documentary that takes four disparate individuals and features them and their unique jobs as part of an effort to suggest a number of ideas about America, about the future, and about the value of personal obsession. The four men are Dave Hoover, a Wild Animal Trainer; George Mendonca, a Topiary Gardener; Ray Mendez, a Mole Rat Specialist; and Rodney Brooks, a Robotics Scientist. The film has a non-linear narrative structure, intercutting interviews with the four men and developing an ongoing dialogue between the men and the unseen interviewer in a way that emphasizes what binds the four men together, while their jobs would seem to be such as to keep them apart in their different realms. In this way, Morris suggests much about what binds us all together in this world."
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A World Without Cheap Oil, 2006.
An essay on the inevitability of a worldwide crisis caused by a shortage of oil.
1,901 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper discusses the world's increasing reliance on oil even while the supply of oil is diminishing. The paper discusses the many ways that nations depend on oil and how closely tied world economies are to the production of oil. In particular, the paper focuses on the U.S. reliance and consumption of oil and how the country will be affected by an oil shortage crisis, claiming that the effects would be severe but that the U.S. would, nevertheless, overcome the crisis and adapt as necessary.
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"We are a part of a generation that is about to witness the next great world crisis. This crisis will be an energy resource crisis. Today, oil companies are pumping more oil than they are replacing. With the majority of the worlds large oil deposits believed to be discovered the peak of growth within the oil industry has apparently been reached. This slowing of oil production is coming at the same time as population and dependency of oil are growing. Similar to the 1970's oil crisis, this unbalanced supply and demand will cause the price of oil to skyrocket. Unlike the 1970's temporary lag in oil production, the upcoming lag threatens to become a steady and constant downturn in production. This shortage will have drastic consequences on the everyday lives of nearly every person on the planet. The effects of the impending and seemingly imminent oil crisis will be broad."
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Cheap Medicine, 2005.
This paper analyzes American access to Canadian prescription drugs.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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The paper examines whether Americans should be able to purchase cheaper prescription drugs from doctors or pharmacists in Canada. The paper contends that it is abundantly clear that they should be able to, for despite the claims of George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans, Canadian prescription drugs are just as safe as American prescription drugs. In fact, the paper points out that many of the drugs in Canadian pharmacies are American made, which reveals that current restrictions on American purchases of prescription drugs in Canada are political in nature and exist only in order to inflate the profits of big American drug companies.
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Maquiladoras: NAFTA's Failure at Globalization, 2006.
A discussion on how NAFTA has allowed the maquiladora industry to take advantage of the disenfranchised majority in Mexico.
1,016 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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Maquiladoras are essentially offshore assembly plants that emerged along the United States-Mexican border in the 1960s. This paper examines how maquiladoras offer cheap labor to produce/assemble goods and how, since NAFTA, have expanded beyond border towns and have moved south into the heart of Mexico. It looks at how although maquiladoras do provide thousands of jobs throughout Mexico, upon closer inspection, they are often operated by tyrannical bosses under sweatshop conditions and are a nesting ground for cheap labor. It argues that for Mexicans, NAFTA is not an agreement based upon free trade but rather an exploitative tool used to extract cheap labor for foreign products.
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"While the profits of the maquiladora sector exploded after the passage of NAFTA, the wages and labor conditions of those working in the assembly plants have gotten worse. According to Mexican labor laws, the maximum hours a person can work a week is forty eight hours, the first nine hours of overtime is to be paid at double-time rates with anything exceeding nine hours overtime to be paid at three times the pay rate. (3). In spite of this, maquiladora workers report that "they were often not paid anything extra for overtime even if they worked from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. In some maquiladoras, workers do veladas- all-nighters- once or twice a week. "
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Illegal Immigration and the Economy, 2008.
This paper argues for the legalization of immigrants in the US and an elimination of the illegal labor market.
1,912 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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The paper maintains that it is more beneficial to raise the rights of present immigrants so legal citizens of the United States can compete with them for employment opportunities rather than devoting taxpayer dollars to enforcing immigration laws which will be broken. The paper relates that this would be a big blow to businesses, many of which thrive upon the availability of cheap illegal labor. The paper argues, however, that it would help the working class and aid in narrowing the ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States.
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"Since the New World was first discovered, there has been an enormous influx of people from various parts of the world and differing cultures who have wished to resettle in what is now the United States. Of course, these immigrants have historically arrived in the United States in waves, with different portions of the globe and different ethnicities being represented in each individual wave. Yet, one characteristic that has remained constant over the history of immigration in the United States is the general apprehensiveness with which new immigrants have been welcomed by the established culture and society. Although the issue of immigration amnesty has been debated for centuries, it still remains one of the most hotly contested and influential topics in modern public debate. Significant problems with the current laws surrounding illegal immigration and amnesty still exist."
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Black Domestic Workers in Canada, 2008.
The paper examines the importation of black domestic servants from the Caribbean to Canada in the 1900s.
2,093 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 65.95
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The paper reveals that domestic workers in Canada today face most of the problems that the Caribbean women faced a hundred years ago. The paper relates that from the early 1900s, female domestic workers were recruited from Guadeloupe and the British Caribbean to accommodate demand for cheap domestic labour. The paper discusses the "Domestic Scheme" where a very small number of candidates were admitted into Canada as domestic help. The paper highlights how Canada's immigration policies were, until a few decades ago, very racist and sexist.
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"Even though Canada has had a black population since the 1700s, much of its immigration policies, until the 1960s, have been prejudiced against black people and people of colour in general. Black people came to Canada as slaves, and then as fugitives running and escaping from the slavery in the USA, one it was abolished in the British Empire. Many were farmers that worked their own land. But as Brand (1991) points out, "the abolition of slavery did not eradicate racism as an organizing principle within the social, economic and political life of Canada and the USA" (p. 14)."
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Racism Against Asians, 2002.
A look at the racism against Asians in North American society through their exploition.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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This essay discusses the racism against Asians in North American society. In the context of Asian males, the essay shows that the form of oppression occurs in the context of cheap labour. In terms of Asian women, the society exploits them by using them for the reproduction of labour and then ignoring their existence.
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Business in Costa Rica, 2007.
This paper examines the viability of opening a factory in Costa Rica.
1,006 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper explores the feasibility of opening a clothing factory within Costa Rica. The paper examines the economic, financial, cultural, political, legal and environmental factors to determine if opening a clothing factory is a practical option. The paper concludes that it would be recommended to open a factory there. The paper explains how the country has a high population that can be used as cheap laborers and factory workers and the topography is ideal in most of the country. The paper also relates that prices within the country are relatively low compared to the United States' employment and material prices.
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"The country of Costa Rica has an economy that is growing with each passing year. 'The country has an estimated population of 4.02 million people, and it has an annual estimated population growth of 1.48 percent' (State). In 2005, the country had a national 'GDP of 18.4 billion dollars and a GDP PPP of 37.97 billion dollars' (State). After four years of slow economic growth, the Costa Rican economy 'grew at nearly 4% in 2004. Compared with its Central American neighbors, Costa Rica has achieved a high standard of living, with a per capita income of about U.S. $4,700, and an unemployment rate of 6.6%. The annual inflation rate hovers around 14% as the Costa Rican Government seeks to reduce a large fiscal deficit'(State). Also, due to the country's growing economy, it also has an industrial production growth rate of about 8.4 percent (CIA)."
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