Advantages and Disadvantages of the Rise in Corporations
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Rise in Corporations
Today we know that corporations, for good or bad, are major influences on our lives. They have essentially become a part of our lifestyle. These multi-national companies based around the world started through the industrial revolution, which was a period in history when people found new and efficient ways of producing goods, manufacturing services and creating new methods of transportation. This lead to exploitation of these corporations such as: child labour, low wages, poor working conditions and long working hours. Nike and Gap have been criticized for their workers in their worldwide sweatshops. The Global Exchange found workers hunch over sewing machines, kept awake by forced intoxicating drugs on 72-hour shifts. Child laborers worked in sub-standard health conditions, receiving pay far below minimum wage in factories that distribute to mainstream clothing retailers. Poor and desperate people work behind the closed doors of sweatshops where verbal, physical and sexual abuse is common.