"Inside a Chinese Sweatshop: A Life of Fines and Beating"

Business Week, October 2, 2000, pp. 122-128.

 

Synopsis:

Some multinational corporations seem to have assured consumers that their goods are not produced under sweatshop conditions. Those firms began hiring outside auditing firms so that the working conditions of their foreign factories could be checked and improved. As this article reports, however, the self-auditing systems have turned out to be not enough. The auditors failed to uncover terrible working conditions in China, and such inadequate labor-auditing systems have got the working conditions worse.

 

Full-text Article: http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_40/b3701119.htm

 

Text connection:

Chapter 2 "National Differences in Political Economy" (pp.69-70).