Essay On Cheap Labor

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Outsourcing: Cheap labor is unethical
Core countries outsource to various peripheral countires in order to save and make more money, however, in the opinion of most, this is very unethical and a form exploitation. Outsourcing simply put is merely the migration of jobs from one country to another. Companies take advantage of the poor workers overseas. While they might be giving them an oppurtunity to make money, they are essentially doing more harm. Cheap labor is simply defined as laboring for very cheap pay which includes no benefits, working in harsh environments, and being subjected to abuse and finally working excessively elongated hours with no breaks or lunches. Cheap labor is unethical for several main points, core countries usually don’t pay their citizens predatory wages, the environments that poor works labor in are harsh and abusive, and finally children are laboring in these harsh environments.
Before diving into further details, one must understand the types of jobs that are outsourced. Honestly, any industry can outsource, but mostly well known companies outsource such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Wal-mart, and Levi are just a few of the companies leave their countries and pay cheap wages.
Typically, most outsourced jobs include but are not limited to software design, market research, data entry, clothing apparel, shoe stitching and even medical transcriptions. This is evident when you make a phone call and you connect with someone in a foreign country, that tells you that that job was outsourced.
Most of the companies transfer to peripheral countries such as China, Bangladesh, India, Thailand and various other countries. These countries are considered third-world countries and most companies go to these places be...

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...cramped and are terribly torrid conditions. Sometimes the workers may have to stand for hours while working. Mostly these places with harsh conditions are referred to as sweatshops. Sweatshops are usually hazardous and put laborors in hazardous situations. For instance, in China in a Apple factory, 62 workers were poisoned with a toxic gass called n-Hexane that workers were using to to clean the screen of Iphones. Lots of those wokers had to go to the hospital and stay for months. N-Hexane has been known to damage the nervous system and several other organs. According to Wen Pei Po, from Chinahush, the report was, “The factory manager made workers use the hazardous gas in inadequately ventilated areas.”(Wen Pei Po, Chinahush.com)
This is one of the many incidents where workers suffer in extreme conditions just to try make money and provide for their families.

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