Worst Forms of Child Labor Occur in India's Garment Industry, Says Report. Indian sports industry: No child's play for some. Once again the global sports community stands shamed by the tainted stories of child labour in football stitching.
In spite of famous FIFA agreement 1996, European Parliament resolution 2004, the incorporation of the clear codes of conducts and Indian Sporting Goods Industries Monitoring and government's tall claims against no child labour, thousands of children are still stitching footballs for the big brands. According to a study conducted by Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) in association with International Labour Rights Forum at least 5000 children are stitching footballs and producing other sporting goods including baseball, cricket balls, basket balls, volleyballs, tennis balls, etc. and contributing to the Indian Sport Industry, which manufactures a total of 318 items.
In the villages and urban slums of Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh and Jalandhar, Punjab many of these children and their families are forced to work under heavy debt from their contractors as bonded labourers. 2010 September « Sustainability. Above the Law?
In No Logo, Naomi Klein argues that there is “an anticorporate attitude…emerging among many young activists.” The political movement spurs from events in which corporations try to “beat the system” and act like they are above the law. Our interest comes from recent trends to ignore environmental issues in order to maximize profits. In 1986, an activist group called London Greenpeace created a small panel that criticized McDonald’s (found here). Pakistan. ACADEMICS STUDYING ADIDAS, REEBOK, and NIKE -Pakistan Last update 01/12/2006 02:24:18 QUICK WAY TO MOVE ABOUT THIS SITE Pull Down Choice and Go To FIND OTHER PAGES HERE Pull Down Choice and Go References on Working Children in Pakistan EXHIBIT A: The 1996 Life Magazine Story that Created a Revolution in the Soccer Industry.
SOURCE: Schanberg, Sydney H. (1996) "On the playgrounds of America, Every Kid's Goal is to Score: In Pakistan, Where children stitch soccer balls for Six Cents an hour, the goals is to Survive. " As our jeep approaches the roadside shed in Mahotra, a village in northern Pakistan, I can see a dozen children and men stitching hexagonal leather pieces into Nike soccer balls. My guide, Sadiq, a gutsy Pakistani human rights worker, suggests I not announce my true profession and pose instead as an American interested in setting up shop in Pakistan to make soccer balls for export. This is the key to understanding the pervasiveness of child labor in the third world. Www2.bayar.edu.tr/yonetimekonomi/dergi/pdf/C11S22004/bkca.pdf. Www.econturk.org/Turkiyeekonomisi/Globalizasyon.pdf.
Plastic bottles pile up as mountains of waste - US news - Environment. The biggest growth in bottled beverages isn't beer or soft drinks or juices.
It's tasteless, colorless and sugarless water. And while that can mean fewer cavities and slimmer waistlines, it irritates Patricia Franklin to no end. The director of a nonprofit group that promotes recycling, she spends her workday thinking about the bottles, cans and other container waste that most Americans take for granted. The boom in plastic water bottles has her especially frazzled because while the recycling rate is extremely low, the demand from recyclers is actually quite high. Franklin, who runs the Container Recycling Institute, doesn't blame individuals as much as what she feels is a recycling system that hasn't kept up with consumption patterns — especially when it comes to water. Bottled water is the single largest growth area among all beverages, that includes alcohol, juices and soft drinks. Plastics should be recycled so that less petroleum — a finite commodity — is consumed, Franklin says. Globalization and the Developing Countries: The Inequality Risk.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Globalization and the Developing Countries: The Inequality Risk Remarks at Overseas Development Council Conference, Making Globalization Work, International Trade Center, Washington, D.C., March 18, 1999.
Impact of Globalisation on Developing Countries and India. Chandrasekaran Balakrishnan for The 2004 Moffatt Prize in Economics Introduction: Globalisation is the new buzzword that has come to dominate the world since the nineties of the last century with the end of the cold war and the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the global trend towards the rolling ball.
The frontiers of the state with increased reliance on the market economy and renewed faith in the private capital and resources, a process of structural adjustment spurred by the studies and influences of the World Bank and other International organisations have started in many of the developing countries. Melinda French Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola. Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing World. Www.iticu.edu.tr/yayin/dergi/d5/M00072.pdf. Küreselleşmenin gelişmekte olan ülkelerde gelir dağılımı üzerindeki etkileri.
Sablon.sdu.edu.tr/fakulteler/iibf/dergi/files/2002-1-7.pdf. KÜRESELLEŞMENİN TİCARİ HAYAT ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİLERİ. Küreselleşme akımı ülkeler arasındaki ticari duvarları kaldırmış ve uluslararası faaliyet gösteren işletmeleri yeni stratejiler uygulamaya itmiştir.
Bunun sonucu olarak dünya ticareti farklı boyutlar kazanmıştır. Bu makalenin amacı da küreselleşme ve çok uluslu işletmelerin etkileşimini ve ayrıca küreselleşmenin dünya ticareti üzerindeki etkilerini ortaya koyabilmektir. Küreselleşmenin oluşumunda çok uluslu işletmelerin etkisi, küreselleşme sürecinin temel özellikleri, küreselleşmenin dünya çalışma hayatını etkileyen temel faktörleri ve çok uluslu işletmelere sağladığı faydalar ayrı ayrı incelenmiştir ve küreselleşmenin ticari hayatta faydalar sağladığı kadar tehditler de oluşturduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Temelinde yoğun teknolojik atılımların ve iletişimin bulunduğu ve sosyo-ekonomik yapıyı halen etkisi altında bulunduran küreselleşme, günümüzde ekonomiden işletmeciliğe ve toplum bilimine kadar birçok bilim dalında kullanılan bir kavram halinle gelmiştir. Www.fikretgultekin.com/yukseklisans/Çokuluslu İşletmeler.pdf.
Küreselleşmenin gelişmekte olan ülkeler üzerindeki etkileri ve Türkiye'nin ulusal stratejisi [The effects of globalization on developing countries and national strategy of Turkey] Www.canaktan.org/ekonomi/cok-uluslu/aktan-makale.pdf. Www.econturk.org/Turkiyeekonomisi/finans.pdf. Uluslararası Şirketler, Çok Uluslu Şirketler. Girisim.comu.edu.tr/dergiall/sonsayi/gedikli.pdf.