LABR 2P90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Demography Of The United States, Sweatshop, Labor Rights
4 Dec 2015
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1/3 of all mlb players from outside the usa. More than 40% of minor league players are from foreign countries. Each year, hundreds of boys, aged 15-19, sign contracts many illegally and are sent to baseball academies in the dominican republic and. Mlb has created and operates a system that intentionally discriminates against latin american youth so teams can access cheap sources of labour in order to make profits in north america. Usually a term used to define those in garment industry. Sweatshop: a factory or workshop where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor (unhealthy and unsafe) conditions. The resurgence of the sweatshop can be directly linked to the expansion of corporate globalization. Multinational corporations (mncs) shift production to the global south where labour rights and environmental regulations are weak or not enforced. Targeting children: the relevance of human rights and labour standards.
