ipl-logo

Labor Strikes Surge In China By Shannon Van Sant

211 Words1 Page

Labor in China All over the world, there are factories and companies who underpay employees. These employees go on strikes to demand more out of the places they work at. The article “Labor Strikes Surge in China,” written by Shannon Van Sant states the increasing number of protests in China and how they’re being rapidly spread via social media among workers. The China Labor Bulletin notes the place and number of protests that happens, recording “569 protests in the fourth quarter of last year - three times more strikes than during the same period in 2013” (Sant 1). China’s government failed to protect their citizens’ basic rights as they had no access to having basic minimum wages, employee advantages, or safety. As a consequence, the number

Show More
Related

  • How Did The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Of 1911

    1302 Words  | 6 Pages

    Recent studies conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor found that 67% of Los Angeles garment factories and 63% of New York garment factories violate minimum wage and overtime laws. Ninety-eight percent of Los

    Read More

  • Hum/202 Week 2 Reading Questions

    471 Words  | 2 Pages

    The second pernicious influence is human resource exploitation. Laborers become more like work tools for industrial monopolies rather than human beings. Genders and age do not matter to the authority as they prioritize their benefits over the workers’. Not only do they have to suffer from exploitative boss, the proletariat is also made advantage of by other powers, such as landlords.

    Read More

  • Summary Of Chapter 13, By Upton Sinclair

    1741 Words  | 7 Pages

    During this time period of the 20th century, the number of strikes skyrocketed and this became the worker's main way of fighting back for their rights. “‘Strikes are mere incidents in the class war; they are tests of strength, periodical drills in the course of which the workers train themselves for concerted action. This training is most necessary to prepare the masses for the final ‘catastrophe’ the general strike which will complete the expropriation of the employers” (331). Some of the work conditions that the workers faced were “‘... dangerously broken stairways… windows few and so dirty… The wooden floors that were

    Read More

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Essay

    644 Words  | 3 Pages

    Workers were paid $2 a day at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, and that was before their bosses docked their pay for the needles, thread, and electricity they used each day. The highrise factory had locked exit doors, and practically no safety precautions in case of danger. Conditions were truly brutal, but workers had no other choice, they needed the money and their bosses could replace them at the snap of a finger. Angry garment workers, such as Clara Lemlich, were able to get workers to band together in “The Uprising of 20,000”, the largest strike of women in American history. The strikers protested low wages, dangerous working conditions, and management’s refusal to recognize unions; the mass strike failed to bring any meaningful change to the garment-making industry.

    Read More

  • Phl 320 Labour Practice Research Paper

    873 Words  | 4 Pages

    Labor Practice Paper Angelia Henry PHL/320 May 2, 2016 Bridget Peaco Labor Practice Paper Merriam-Webster online defines a sweatshop as a shop or factory where employees work long at a low wage that is under poor and unhealthy conditions (Merriam-Webster On-line Dictionary, 2016). Sweatshops are factories that violate two or more labor laws to include wages, benefits, child labor or even working hours (Ember, 2014-2015). Companies will attempt to use sweatshop labor to lessen the cost to meet the demands of customers. When we think of sweatshop, we always want to look at third world countries and never in our own backyard. In 2012, the company Forever 21 was sued by the US Department of Labor for ignoring a subpoena requesting the information on how much it pays its workers just to make clothes (Lo,

    Read More

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Of 1911

    2033 Words  | 9 Pages

    They demanded less hours, higher wages, workplace safety and unions. In the summer of 1909 the majority of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory workers walked off of the job. Blanck and Harris hired private police forces and prostitutes to beat the strikers and had them arrested for fighting back. The public looked at them as disturbers of the peace, lazy immigrants who didn’t understand how lucky they were to have a job. Other workers in factories left their jobs as well, leading to Blanck and Harris organizing all of the other shirtwaist factories, leading them against the workers in what essentially became a long game of “chicken”.

    Read More

  • China's One Child Policy Dbq Essay

    505 Words  | 3 Pages

    The population is slowly decreasing from the country mainly because of this policy. This sudden decrease is mainly affecting the farmers of China who mostly rely on their children to do the farm work. The population plummet really took a toll on the parent farmers and their children. The parents abused that one child and forced that child to do all of the farm work. (Document B).

    Read More

  • Comparing The Conflicts Between The Noble And Holy Order Of The Knights Of Labor

    1205 Words  | 5 Pages

    Conflicts between workers and employers are prevalent to this day. From fair wages, to better working conditions, and even to appropriate healthcare, there is always some form of questioning that needs to be addressed. Dating back to the late 1800’s the economy and labor market of the United States underwent massive changes which mainly revolved around people of all different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds becoming wage laborers. Due to these previously unheard-of changes, a conflict between the employees and employers began. Therefore, in order to resolve labor issues, through great difficulty workers created unions and protested against their employers.

    Read More

  • Rebel Youth Book Review

    1867 Words  | 8 Pages

    With a slow economy and rising inflation, workers had intentions to share in the profits that were gained in the post war period. However, as the government and management resisted the unions’ demands, the workers’ anger grew, and the majority of them illegally walked off the job. Milligan believes that, as a result, these demonstrations not only influenced other Canadian workers to do the same, but also inspired workers in the United States to behave similarly. He

    Read More

  • Industrial Revolution Dbq Essay

    978 Words  | 4 Pages

    As seen in document 4 people in the factories had to work near machines that were not covered so people could get caught in them and die or get cut and die from infection. The problem is that they can’t even get food without working so these terrible conditions are still better than not working. With these unfair conditions the workers can try to resist. The image in document 6 shows a group of people picketing for an 8 hour workday. Even if the bosses don’t listen they can get public support to boycott the product until better conditions.

    Read More

  • Summary: The American Labor Movement

    692 Words  | 3 Pages

    Although, labor numbers continue to decline, the labor movement is built on the strength and fortitude to fight. As they focus on immigration reform - 2015, estimates of just over 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. (Jens Manuel Krogstad, Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn, 2017). All of them are employment disadvantaged workers, dispersed in many industries, mainly in the agriculture and service industries. They have no labor protection, earn low wages, operate in poor working conditions, then they need the advocate of labor

    Read More

  • Gilded Age Essay

    1577 Words  | 7 Pages

    The work was also dangerous with not much supervising by the government. Workers, on the other hand, had little or even no bargaining power to leave the unsafe conditions. Nowadays, When Americans only pay attention when extreme work strike, levels of abuse are the norm hidden in the factories around the globe. Although the condition seems much improved, consumers don’t know the true fact- “Today, American citizens simply cannot know the working conditions of the factories that make the products they buy.

    Read More

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Essay

    1009 Words  | 5 Pages

    Many companies and factories don't meet their requirements when it comes to workers rights. During “the booming years” Workers didn't get all the benefits and needs they needed. Around 1911, On an average day one hundred people died on the job. The rights for the workers in the Shirtwaist factory were very poor. They got little to no rights and little to no pay.

    Read More

  • Causes Of Income Inequality In China

    1890 Words  | 8 Pages

    Contrary to the finding that “income inequality increases socio-political instability” (Alesina and Perotti, 1993, p. 18) current levels of inequality in China seems to have little impact on the societal status quo. Although China has experienced massive number of social protests, about 180,000 to 230,000 in 2010 alone (Gӧbel and Ong, 2012, p. 8), these protests are motivated by “abuses of power and other procedural justice issues, rather than being fueled by feelings of distributive injustice and anger at the rich” (Whyte, 2012, p. 6). According to a research paper funded by the European Union (Gӧbel and Ong, 2012, p. 36), income inequality is not among the top five motivations for social protests which include land disputes and environmental degradation. This data is evidently incompatible with a survey finding that income inequality is too great for 95% of Chinese as opposed to only 65% of Americans. Barring survey inaccuracy, high levels of inequality in China so far does not translate to dissatisfaction that leads to outright mass protests and instability.

    Read More

  • Business Ethics Case Study: What Is Foxconn's Ethical Issue?

    803 Words  | 4 Pages

    What is Foxconn’s unethical issue? In mid 2010, Foxconn Technology Group (Foxconn) was facing a crisis of having its workers held protests and riots against the company in Shenzhen, China. Being the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer (Pun, 2010), the company exploited its migrant workers by providing them with exceptionally low pay and allowing unacceptable number of overtime working hours in the manufacturing site. Such method of raising workers’ efficiency is unethical in the eyes of many.

    Read More

More about Labor Strikes Surge In China By Shannon Van Sant

Open Document