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WORKING CONDITIONS IN
THE "THIRD WORLD"
by: S.R. Shearer
The following is typical of conditions to be found in one of the better
"Third World" factories which produces products for consumers in the
"First World." The factory is Nority International Group Ltd. of China,
a Reebok Subcontractor. It should be noted that most of these same conditions
prevail for the other American multinationals like Nike, Liz Claiborne,
etc. which have re-located operations out of the United States to sites
in the so-called "Developing World." This is what "globalization" is
all about!
Nority Shoe Factory is located in Dongguan, Chang’an Province
and employs 6,000-7,000 workers, most of whom are women. The factory
is Taiwanese-owned and it is run like a prison labor camp. Workers
are constantly yelled at by their superiors and are beaten by the security
guards for leaving the factory without permission.
 The
normal work week, not including overtime, is 12 hours a day, six days
a week, or 72 hours a week. The work is divided into three shifts: 8am-11:30pm,
12:30pm-4:30am, and 5:30am-10pm. On top of this grueling 12-hour schedule,
workers are often forced to work an additional 2-5 hours of overtime.
Refusal to work overtime could result in a fine of $7.23 to $21.67 (60
to 180Rmb), and a worker who refuses to work overtime three days in
a row will be fired. The work is very stressful. Workers are given a
quota to fulfill. Most say they are unable to fulfill their quota
during work hours, and therefore they have to stay behind and work
without pay. Some workers said they only got one to three days
off per month. The workers can be fired for refusing overtime and
female workers can be fired for becoming pregnant. (Nority–like
many other factories in the area which employ women workers–finds
it easier to dismiss pregnant workers.)
China is now the biggest shoe producing country in the world, producing
over one-third of the world’s top brand-name sports shoes. In many
ways it is an ideal setting for the sports shoe multinationals and their
subcontractors. Massive unemployment, low wages, the lack of enforcement
of labor laws and standards, repression of independent union organizing,
and the role of the state-run All China Federation of Trade Unions in
supporting management, are combined with local governments whose policies
and interests lie in attracting foreign capital and ensuring the
best conditions for the accumulation of profit. "First World" multinationals
like Nike and Reebok benefit in every way because they do not have to
deal directly with production: they can distance themselves from this
"unseemly" process through subcontracting - and in doing so, benefit
from low production costs without any direct lines of responsibility.
Subcontracting also allows them to respond quickly to changing styles
and fashions, while passing on all of the uncertainty and insecurity
to their subcontractors and ultimately to the workers themselves. [Report
from the International Federation of Labor]
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WEBSITES which are, for the most part, "in the tank"
insofar as their loyalty to the United States is concerned
- a loyalty that has made them partners in the BLOODY
trail the American military has left in its TERROR-RIDDEN
rampage throughout the world, as well as making them partners
in the abject poverty that American corporations have
imposed on the peoples and nations the American military
machine has ravaged - A BLOODY, TERROR-RIDDEN RAMPAGE
THAT HAS TO A LARGE DEGREE BEEN CARRIED OUT IN THE NAME
OF THE "PRINCE OF PEACE." [Please see our articles,
"The Third World
as a Model for the New World Order," Inside
the American New World Order System" and "The
American Empire: The Corporate / Pentagon / CIA / Missionary
Archipelago."]
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