Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Week 12: Sweatshops

Week 12 - Sweatshops
3 Definitions of sweatshops

A sweatshop is a working environment with conditions that are considered by many people of industrialized nations to be difficult or dangerous ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshops

sweatshop - factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

sweatshop - a factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweatshop

Illegal conditions can include child labor, sub-minimum wages, and near slave-like treatment of human beings.

Using Internet research, find out at least 2 companies that use sweatshop produced goods.

54 comments:

  1. Abercrombie and Fitch and Kohl’s use sweatshops to prodice their goods.

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  2. Gymboree and Ikea are two companies that use sweatshops to produce their goods.

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  3. walmart uses sweatshops to produce their goods.

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  4. apperently Gap and Nike use sweatshops

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  5. nike and walmart use ssweatshops.

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  6. Puma Umbro adidas reebox and nike all use swearshop

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  7. Walmart, nike, and reebok all use sweatshops.

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  8. Walmart, Nike, Kohls, Ikea, and ADIDAS all use sweatshops to produce their goods.

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  9. Abercrombie and Fitch, Gymboree, Hanes, Ikea, Kohl’s, LL Bean, Pier 1 Imports, Propper International, and Walmart all use sweatshops

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  10. Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger use sweatshops.

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  11. From doing some research on the internet, I found out that most of the big shoe brands such as Reebok, Adidas, and Nike all use sweat shops to produce their goods.

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  12. alot of imagrants will work there

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  13. Pacsun and Hot Topic use sweatsweat shops

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  14. Two big companies that are known to use sweatshops are Pier 1 Imports and American Apparel

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  15. Reebok, Adidas, and Nike all use sweat shops, but i will still buy Nike's shoes because they look fresh.

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  16. Nike and Ikea both use goods from sweatshops

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  17. Kohls, adidas and nike all use sweatshops.

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  18. Companies like the Gap, Liz Caiborn,Nike, and Wal-Mart all came under criticism for Marketing goods produced in sweatshops.

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  19. I never knew walmart would us sweat shops.

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  20. Reebok, Adidas, and Nike all use sweat shops

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  21. two companies thats use sweatshop is GAP, Nike, Disney.

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  22. Nike and khols use goods from sweatshops

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  23. walmart and nike use sweat shops

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  25. Tommy Hilfiger and Guess are two companies that use sweatshop produced goods.

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  26. Walmart, Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, are all companies that use sweatshops.

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  27. Walmart, LL Bean, Khols, and Abercrombi and Fitch.These Companies all use women and children as forced labors with very little pay.

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  28. Abercrombie and Fitch, Hanes, and Ikea are all sweatshops that were in the 2010 hall of shame.

    http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/sweatshops/resources/12211

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  29. Nike, Reebok, Calvin Klein, Old navy, Wal-mart, Kohls, etc. Most major brands use sweatshops.

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  30. 21 workers were killed in a H&M fire in one of its factories in March,this is the second time in six months.

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  31. Nike, Reebok, Calvin Klein, Old navy, Wal-mart, Kohls, Abercrombie and Fitch, Hanes, Ikea, Tommy Hilfiger and Guess are all companies that use sweatshops, and it disgusts me.

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  32. walmart, Calvin Klein, Abercrombie and Fitch, Hanes, and more are all sweatshops.

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  33. many major clothing companies use sweatshops such as nike, addidas, old navy , wal-mart etc.
    wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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  34. I never would have guessed that big companies such as nike, adidas, abercrombie and fitch, kohls, etc.. all use sweat shops. it is strange to think that still to this day we have harsh treatment such as that, and still have poor working conditions.

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  35. Although everyone has already said several examples, I can say that Abercrombie & Finch, Nike, and several other stores (including Wal-Mart) are guilty of using sweatshops. -Chris Lansing

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  36. I can't believe that companies like Wal-mart, Nike, Old Navy, and Reebok use goods made in sweatshops. it dusgusts me to see that in the society we live in today, people can be abused and taken advantage of so easily by others in positions of power.

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  37. nike, abercrombie & fitch, addidas, old navy

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  38. Abercombie and Fitch and Walmart are two of the many companies that use sweatshops to produce the goods that we buy.

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  39. Abercrombie and Fitch, Walmart all use sweat shops to produce the clothing we buy today.

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  40. nike and walmart use sweat shops

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  41. Companies that use sweatshops include Adidas, Nike, Wal-mart, Starbucks, and Disney to name a few.

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  42. all the stores you shop at use sweat shops like nike,abercrombie & fitch, addidas,old navy, Nike,khols,Disney and Wal-Mart

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  43. Nike.Disney.Kohls.Addias.Wal-mart.Abercombie and Fitch. Old Navy all use sweatshops

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  44. omg!!! it kind of sucks that my favorite store uses sweatshops (hottopic) and then a place like disney??? Thats just unbelievable, honestly they are using children who are practically slaves to help run a place that is supposed to promote children entertainment and happiness. But yeah, hottopic and disney are examples of places that use sweatshops.

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  45. spencers, macy's, and bannana republic use sweat shops.

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  46. nike, target, walmart, puma, addias all use sweat shops to produce their clothing.

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  47. -factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry

    -Sweatshop (also known as "sweat factory") is a working environment with unhealthy conditions that are considered by many people of industrialized nations to be difficult or dangerous, usually where the workers have few opportunities to address their situation. ...

    -a factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal

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  48. footlocker nd walmart'

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  49. old navy, hottopic, walmart, disney, foot locker are all examples of sweatshops

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  50. target also uses sweat shopes to build there products, i think that it is so wrong to put people in those conditions. i think that they should be abule to work for money in the right working conditions

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  51. i disagree with major companies using sweatshops.....there is no reason for them because the people who work in them either dont get paid or get like .10 an hour

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  52. Nike and Walmart use sweatshops.

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