沃爾瑪血汗工廠涉及的商業(yè)道德層面分析

1、ETHICS AND WALMART CLOTHING SWEATSHOP Background Case: Walmart and Rana plaza collapse in Bangladesh 1. General introduction of Walmart.Walmart stores, as an US biggest retailor company in the world, aims to provide goo

2、ds at low prices to its customers. Due to minimizing the cost of manufacturing, supplies of Walmart are located mostly in developing countries with cheap labors (The Economist,2013)2. Employee’s working condition in Bang

3、ladesh.Salaries of workers are highly low in Bangladesh. Month wages of clothing employees range fron 70 to 100 dollars which is just one fifth of workers’ salaries in China and many children as works in the damp little

4、dark room doing embroidery or dyeing.3. The Rona plaza collapse. At 24,April 2013 , an 8-story commercial building named Rona plaza which is located several miles away from Bangladesh capital collapsed with death of 1130

5、 garment workers for Walmart clothing industry and 2500 injured(Huffington Post,2014). It is noticed later that cracks of the building was found and all the staff of plaza was evaluated immediately including employees of

6、 a bank and shops. However, garment works was ordered to go back to keep working by the building owner ignoring the danger of cracks with a threat of losing salary of one month the second day when the deadliest garment-f

7、actory accident happened.Besides, brands like Nike, H&M, Gap, Victoria’s Secret, Disney, Sears, Joe Fresh as well as Liz Claibourne are all reported to own their textile sweatshops like Walmart mainly in south-east A