Hidden Face of Globalization

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PART II is now available on Youtube and at: (www.nlcnet.org/article.php?id=243)

In the global economy, corporations demand enforceable laws - intellectual property and copyright laws - backed up by sanctions to protect their products. However, when we ask these same companies, "Can't we also protect the rights of the 16-year-old who made the product?," the companies respond: "No. That would be an impediment to free trade!" Young garment workers in Bangladesh share their experiences working for companies like Disney and Wal-Mart.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: April 3, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Author: nlcnet

Length: 00:09:48
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Tags: wal-mart walt disney labor human rights children corporations bangladesh free trade globalization women walmart

Video Comments:
TuMNepHaceS (January 4, 2009 at 10:19 am)
i THiNk of THeM everyday. iT'S depreSSiNg To kNow SoMe of uS Take THeM for graNTed.
jaymoore299 (December 26, 2008 at 12:01 pm)
First of all this is dishonest journalism. It is impossible to work 20 hours in one day on a consistent basis. This does not happen anywhere in the world. Secondly, the people are allowing themselves to be "exploited", nobody is putting a gun to their head and telling them they have to work. And thirdly, it is up to the workers to unionize and demand better pay or hours, not the employers to just give it to them. Americans had to fight to get these for themselves, and so should they.
demexii1 (December 23, 2008 at 11:00 pm)
Why do they do that? BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY PAYS. Think about it. They may have tough jobs but they are jobs where as before they were starving. Plus, if it was so bad petition the government to step in and help or for the workers to unionize. Don't blame the companies for doing what is in their interest when the government and people aren't doing their jobs and helping those people out either.
CrimsonToast (December 22, 2008 at 9:35 am)
If these people are so fucking pissed about it...
ummm... Howbout unionize you fuckin tards.
The responsibility should be left with the people not the government.
BSODPanic (December 22, 2008 at 9:54 pm)
Crimson, watch the video, they can't fucking unionize! They get abused, fired, or both. When your source of living depends on that little bit of money, not very many people are going to be able to take that risk. That's why the US has labor laws so something like this doesn't happen.
CrimsonToast (December 23, 2008 at 3:17 am)
your right they cant, but how do we solve this? If we get the government involved it gives them more power over the markets. So people should either recognise these atrocious working conditions and choose not to work their, and when the company has little employees they would be forced to increase their working premisise to make more people willing to work there. Unfortuantly you need a way to make a living so we should start a national boycaut on whatever place has sweatshops of this sort.
demexii1 (December 23, 2008 at 11:02 pm)
Where are their government? Isn't that their problem, not ours?
ElHasZardo (December 20, 2008 at 11:26 am)
i feel for the men in that clip, since the narrator only seems to feel for the women.
thinkingisawesome (December 15, 2008 at 9:41 am)
Blah, mistakenly made the comment too early.

Subsidization of Western farms that create unfair competition for third world countries they trade with IS a problem. And those subsidies should end. But that's not market economics or globalization. Subsidies to local businesses are nationalization and socialism. The answer is not to go against globalization, which just increases the problem, but to end those subsidies. The west is wrong on that one.
thinkingisawesome (December 15, 2008 at 9:38 am)
Although I agree, Itgs, Lem brings up a valid concern: Western subsidies.


Although market economies are universally superior, unfortunately the same cannot be said for the nations they originate from.