All these were part of the government's cost cutting package to cushion the impact of the Asian economic crisis on businesses. ... Management also build flexible wage system into their pay structures to compete in this economy downturn and is willing to give employees company stocks in lieu of cash or cash bonuses, thus freeing some cash flow. ... This arrangement allows employees to carry out their work at a location away from the conventional office, either in the employees' home, satellite offices or neighborhood work centers. ... For companies whose business is cyclical in na...

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Other human rights include clean water, a safe environment, health care, a home, and say in our futures (Mason, 88). The notorious sweatshops of the age of Big Business (the late 19th and early 20th centuries) virtually disappeared after World War II because of increased government regulation of monopolies and the rise of trade unions. ... The popularity of the "free" market following the fall of Communism and a rise in anti-union sentiment, coupled with government programs (like NAFTA and GATT) designed to encourage free trade, have hastened the globalization process. Large corporations are...

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This is the result of young girls remaining at home uneducated and in charge of maintaining the household, while young boys are obligated to join the workforce. ... These economic inequalities have increased the labor movement of men across the border for better paying jobs leaving two out of three families in rural Mexico without any working men at the home (LA Times, P. ... Maquiladoras are labor-intensive factories that are allowed to import components duty-free for assembly in Mexico and re-export to the United States or elsewhere. ... An organization that has used its church affiliatio...

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Most didn't even have to do the work at home as they had people to do it for them. ... The "sweated trades" were businesses where women were made to all sit together in a stuffy room with no windows thus causing sweat and an all round uncomfortable time. ... But then in 1876 school attendance was made compulsory between the ages of five and thirteen years and free after 1800. ...

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Women were the ones who had a duty to look after the home and raise the children. ... " The women work long, enduring hours as live-in caregivers and/or nannies caring for other people's children and home. Many women receive minimum wage, which they seldom get to keep as they have to send their earnings back home to their families. ... Many are unable to speak their native language or practice their culture as they live in other people's homes. ... Cool (2010) supports this reasoning by indicating,"Women are much more likely than men to balance their home and work lives by worki...

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