Sociology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Infant Mortality, Socialized Medicine, Sick Role

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1027A/B
• Professor: Wolfgang Lehmann

Document Summary

Workers make free choices to work there: Wages too high would be destruction of local economy. But: helps increase local wage levels over time. Third argument: bring more investment to the country. Investment of mnc means decline of repression and oppressive regimes. Are those free choices: unemployment, economic pressure and misleading, you can create employment that offers better condition without destroying other things. Where do the profits actually go: very little is reinvested in host county. Neo-liberal policies: enforces deregulation and makes hosts relatively powerless. Multinational corporations are not interested in development: high wages, better living standard, and democratization hurt profits. How are we implicated: we are implicated - we like a bargain, we rely on cheap consumer products. Why are sweatshops a problem: loss of employment in industrial counties, exploitation in cheap labour countries. Child labour: problems with developments of actual human rights for not only works but citizens as well, race to the bottom.