Къде се носят пуловери като този?

Сега се замислих за един минус - ако деколтето пторед есъщодълбоко или дори нормално, то рамената ще падат.Затова е добре да има някакъв сутиен Ако отпред е затворен, значи един вид изместено е деколтето отзад, което може би няма да прави проблем.
Носи ли го някоя тоз хубав пуловер или не?

Ще ми бъде интересно да споделиш повече инфо за проекта, не е лоша темата ...
В спора, в който си се намесила обаче, акцентът е другаде ..

Не смятам, че това е спор. И "намесила" ми звучи някак грубо, не съм се намесила, а отговорила на мнение.  Ако си прочела по-напред, вече съм си изразила мнението по темата доста отдавна.  А по въпроса със Китай и робските условия във фабриките много може да се изговори. 

Veselka Dusichka
International Business
Paper Assignment
12/3/2007


Sweatshops in China – slavery in the twentieth century

   “Fancy new clothes may look nice but if someone were to drop in unannounced at the factory where they are made, more often than not he would be hard pressed to describe the working conditions as pleasant.”  This is a sad quote found in Business Week that opens up a huge debate on a very sad topic.  In the recent decade a new term has emerged and it is not so much new, but the Western society was not really aware of it or could not care less.  The term is “sweatshop”, which is a factory that exploits its employees to the maximum level, and by doing so, forgoes basic human rights such as the right to be paid the appropriate amount, the right to take a break to rest or the right to work a normal eight hour day.  China is only one of the many countries in the poor nations where this issue is very hot and it seems that it would be long before it will be over.  The problems that lead to these sweatshops are many among which the desire of the Western world for cheap goods, the fact that people in China need the money no matter what, and the fact that it is becoming an art to conceal this type of employment in a variety of ways. 
   As mentioned above, one of the first reasons for this problem is the fact that rich nations demand cheaper and cheaper goods in their stores.  While it is hard for the manufacturers to provide that, it is not exactly impossible.  If a product is to be cheaper that means that the cost for producing it has to be lowered.  Cost reduction by means of lower payroll expense is a great way to do this.  That is why a large amount of companies based in rich nations off- shored their manufacturing facilities to poor nations such as China.  Cheap goods are not the only problem, though, because “as workers in the US and elsewhere commanded ever higher wages, manufacturers shifted operations elsewhere” (Business Week).   The way it works is that the large companies demand lower and lower prices for the goods purchased and the only choice for the Chinese factory owner is to lower the salary of his employees so that he can still have some profit left.  Asia Monitor Resource Centre and the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee have done a lot of research on this topic and as they put it “when the multinationals squeeze the subcontractors, the subcontractors squeeze the workers.”  This situation turns into a vicious cycle of exploitation, lies and deception.
   Once the small factory in China has been pressured to lower its cost then the working conditions have to change for the employees.  The first thing that happens is that salary as low as it is already automatically goes down.  The employers know that they can get away with this because for a lot for their workers having a job is just a matter of mere survival and they could not support their families any other way.  According to Business Week, one of the Apple plants that it included in its report “employs some 200,000 people who live in dormitories crammed with up to 100 people at a time, for wages that appear to Western eyes shockingly low, about $50 a month.”   Similar is the situation at a Puma factory where the employees are forced to work 100 hours per week, live in dormitories rooms of 12 persons per room and get paid 35 cents per hour.   It is ironic that for every $70 pair of sneakers Puma makes a gross profit of $34.09 and if they increase the salary of their employees by 20 cents it would result in a 54 cents increase to the retail price of the $70 sneakers.  This means that there is no reason why Puma pays such low salaries provided that the higher salaries do not necessarily increase the price per unit tremendously.
   Cost reduction, though, is not achieved only by lowering wages in the Chinese factories.  As mentioned above workers are forced to work long hours, and most of the time they are not even paid for the extra time that they work.  It is a common practice for employers to set “the normal work day as 12 hours, and then add additional overtime work” (Corpwatch).  Very often workers in China are not really aware as to what a “normal” work day is and don’t know that eight hours is what the law permits.  This makes it hard to regulate such factories because the employees may think that what is happening is normal.  Not only do they work long hours, but time off is somewhat unheard of.  Employees at Wellco factory, which is a Nike’s subcontractor, get only two to four days off every month.  This not only violates China Labor Law, but it also violates Nike’s Code. 
   Labor law seems to be a difficult code to abide by in China.  What makes it even more difficult is the fact that there are a lot of ways to get around it and to cheat the authorities.   “Gamin the system”, as it’s being called, can be accomplished via means such as double books, scripted responses and hidden production.  Companies which pay lower salaries, for example, maintain two sets of accounting records; one for themselves with the actual numbers, and one for auditors and government officials with inflated salaries.  That way if they get a surprise visit by someone who wants to look at the books they can be prepared.  Another way to cheat the system is to teach employees what to say if case they get questioned.  Employees are taught to say only nice things and never to mention the fact that they work fifteen hours a day, for example.  If these two ways don’t seem to work, then an appealing alternative is for the company to send production to subcontractors and that way the main facility is all nice and clean and no one knows that the production actually comes from someplace else where workers are being abused.  The worst of all is the fact that in many instances, employees are in dire need of money and cannot afford to jeopardize their employment by speaking the truth. 
   Another very serious problem in China is the use of child labor.  While the legal age for employment is sixteen years of age, a lot of times fourteen years olds, mostly girls  work in factories.  The sad thing is that why most of them are seeking better lives for themselves, many times they find their death in the factory or the adjacent dormitories build specifically for young workers to be in close proximity so that they can work long hours and go to their rooms just for sleep.  Such is the story of five young girls, Beixinzhuang.  They came to the dormitory after twelve hours of working hard, and since there was no real heating in the room, they filled up a bucket of coal and lit it up.  As they went to sleep, the fumes of the coal filled up the room and all girls got poisoned by the carbon monoxide.  This in itself was horrible, but the worst part was that “the owner of the canvas-making factory was so impatient to cover up the fact that three of the unconscious workers were underage that he rushed the girls into caskets while some were still alive.”  Many times children are forced to work not only bad the bad economic conditions, but also by the lack a good educational system.  According to the China Labor Bulletin, “the rural educational system in many parts of the countryside is in a state of virtual collapse.”  So, it is not a surprise that young women prefer to go and earn money for their families instead of wasting their time in schools that do not contribute much to their education but just waste their time.
   As one can imagine, being a factory employee in China can be very difficult and at the same time dangerous.  Long hours, dim workshops, and little or no ventilation take a toll on people’s health and sometimes even their lives.  Chemicals and other dangerous substances are being used in production and no safety precautions are being used to protect people’s health.  All this brings one thought to mind – in the twenty-first century slavery still exists.  The only difference between true slavery and China’s factories is the fact that people get paid, but salaries are so low that living off of them is a matter of mere survival and not life one can enjoy.  Some say that sweatshops are a good thing because they help build the economy in a particular country and without it people would be in a much worse situation.  Whether this is the case or not can be argued about but one thing is true, every human being has the right to live a comfortable life and be a respected part of society.  The truth of it is that China is still a long way from providing these basic rights to its working class.




 



Works Cited:

1.http://www.laborrights.org/press/ChildLabor/childlabor_china_0505.htm
2. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=3031
3. Hesseldahl, Arik. “Fixing Apple’s “Sweatshop” Woes.” Business Week Online 30 June 2006 p.8-8 Business Source Premier

4. Prasso, Sheridan. “Piling On the Inequalities.” Fortune 23 July 2007. Vol. 156 Issue 2, p.20-20

5. Feitelberg, Rosemary. “Report: Puma Makers in China Work in Sweatshop Conditions.” WWD: Women’s Wear Daily.  6 August 2004, Vol. 188, Issue 27 P.13-13

Съжалявам, че е толкова дълъг предния ми пост и че е на англииски, но  имам да уча за изпити и нямам време да го превеждам.

На мен ми е много интересен. Щом като си го пуснала тук, ще си позволя да си го копирам, заедно с линковете, инфото е наистина интересно.

Поздрави 

Кармел,

Радвам се, че ти е интересно.  три от статиите, не са линкове, а са взети от база данни чрез университета ми.  Ако искаш, мога да ти пратя целия текст. 

Извинявам се на всички, че оспамих темата.   

Мерси много   

И от мен извинения за оспамването!

Хубав половер, но лично за мен не е практичен и незнам къде бих го носила.

Момичета, моят пуловер е при мен.

Взех си също и този: , само че в бяло(малко е прозачен и леко широк като кройка, но стои добре  )

Ако имате желание мога да покажа снимки и на двата, върху мен 

Давай, давай!

разбира се чакаме с нетърпение

Малко съм го разчекнала и като е така, даже няма нужда от сутиен … с паднали рамене.


Този е леко тип прилеп, сякаш... Въпреки, че е S, обаче ми е малко голям като че ли 

много хубаво стоят

Обаче изобщо не е чак толкова дълбоко отзад деколтето, както се вижда на снимката от каталога. Можех да мина и без сутиена със закопчаване на кръста, ама айде