Globalisation, Sweatshops and Implications in Canadian Market

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
2. Discussion..............................................................................................................................3
2.1 Globalisation.....................................................................................................................3
2.2 Sweatshop.........................................................................................................................3
2.3 Sweatshop products in the Canadian Market...................................................................4
2.4 Reasons for the purchase of Sweatshop products by Canadian customers......................4
2.5 Reasons for engagement of young girls in Bangladeshi garment industry......................6
2.6 Implications of job loss for the Bangladeshi girls............................................................6
3. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................6
Reference List............................................................................................................................7

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1. Introduction
In the scope of this report, the factors like Globalisation, Sweatshops and the
implications of these two factors in the Canadian market have been reflected. Majority of the
production of the big brands in Canada are dependent on the sweatshop factories in the South
East Asian countries. The most sellable products in the customer market of the country are
manufactured in the sweatshops. This report also explores the reasons because of which the
workers in the countries like Bangladesh are compelled to work in the sweatshops.
2. Discussion
2.1 Globalisation
Dispersal of industrial as well as service activities across geographies, for evidence
production, distribution, sourcing of factors for inputs and lastly research and development
and cross-border Company networking is referred to as Globalisation (Lehrer, 2017). Some
key characteristics of globalisation can be referred as:
 A process by means of which the economies become more integrated as well as inter-
dependent
 Globalisation can be complemented as a dynamic state and definitely not an end state
 The effects of Globalisation can be reversed. This has become evident form the recent
recession in the expansion of the world trade following global crisis in the economy.
2.2 Sweatshop
Sweatshops are an important consequence of globalisation. Sweatshops are basically intense
production units that big global brands like Nike, Disney, and Walmart and so on use for
employment in the LDC nations like China, Taiwan, Bangladesh as well as Indonesia
(Mezzadri, 2016). The term sweatshop is used to primarily refer to the imhumane conditions