To what extent does the fashion industry support ethical work practices?

Work Ethics in the Fashion Industry

Introduction

Due to the increased globalisation, there is more flow of goods, services, and labour pounds, across national borders. The clothing industry was one of the first industries to get global due to the nature of its products being a basic need (Haug and Busch, 2015). This industry has become very important in the global economy in terms of trade because it has created job opportunities for millions of people worldwide. According to data by Fashion United (2021), in 2020, approximately 430 million people were working in the global textile and fashion production. Over 395,000 people work in the clothing and retail industries in the UK. In 2020, the fashion and clothing industry brought around 52 billion British pounds, showing its one of the major sectors in the UK sector (Fashion United, 2021). This shows that the fashion industry is a major player in the global economy.

Due to the huge demand for Labour in the fashion industry, these companies are known to exploit workers worldwide in search of cheap Labour and hide under the roof of greenwashing. Most popular multinational clothing companies such as Fashion Nova, Victoria’s Secret, Nike, Adidas, Uniqlo, and H&M have been exposed to unethical work practices such as forced Labour or labour exploitation (Kamprad, 2021). For instance, Nike has been accused of using child labour, discrimination of various cultures, and nurturing sexual harassment. Another example is Victoria’s secret, which has been exposed to not being transparent about all the companies they work with, child labour, toxic culture of sexual harassment, and formaldehyde lawsuits (Kamprad, 2021). However, there may be more claims hidden due to the fashion industry’s power in creating job employment and helping the economies thrive.

This research proposal aims to investigate issues of work ethics in the fashion industry whereby it will evaluate how unethical the fashion industry is and its impact on the working culture. The International labour standards condemn all forms of forced labour, which implies that every individual has the right to choose the work they want voluntarily (Betterwork, 2020). Sexual harassment is also considered a violation of human rights and even discrimination of cultures, which shows that most of these companies use unethical work practices to produce and manufacture their clothes. This research topic is important because the world has now been more concerned about the ethical activities of companies than ever before, and therefore, it is important to ensure that there are ethical work practices in the fashion industry. Additionally, this research will help to shed light on the extent to which the fashion industry embraces ethical work practices.

Research Questions and Objectives

The main research questions are:

  1. To what extent does the fashion industry support ethical work practices?
  2. What are the main work ethics issues in the fashion industries?

Objectives

  1. To learn how much does the textile industry embrace ethical work practices in their manufacturing and selling of clothes
  2. To learn about some of the types of ethical work issues in the fashion industry
  3. To recommend the best methods to make the fashion industry ethical.
Prepare a reflection essay (1,500 words) based on your experience as an entrepreneur or partner/working with an entrepreneur or an entrepreneurship opportunity.

Assessment format Reflection Essay (.doc or.docx)
Length 1,500 words (10% allowable either way, does not include title page, table
of contents, appendix and references)
Specific requirements » Use a minimum of 7 references including chapter content,
academic journals, papers, books sourced from the university
library or other academic resources.
» Use either Times New Roman (12 pt.), Arial (11 pt.), Calibri (11 pt.)
» Set page margins to 2.54 cm
» Double-space text including headings
» Include page number on every page
» Use APA 7th Style Guide
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this assessment, students will be able to:
a. Critically evaluate major theories and models of entrepreneurship and innovation management.
b. Identify and assess the characteristics of effective entrepreneurs and innovators.
BRIEF
Prepare a reflection essay (1,500 words) based on your experience as an entrepreneur or partner/working with an
entrepreneur or an entrepreneurship opportunity. If you have not experienced either scenario, you may select a wellknown entrepreneur or interview an entrepreneur for your reflection essay.

Compare and contrast the presidential reactions to attacks on the United States by Franklin Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor and George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. How are they similar and different in their messages?

Week 4

The Third Wave
Word count min 150

This experiment took place at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, during the first week of April 1967. Jones, finding himself unable to explain to his students how the German population could have claimed ignorance of the Holocaust, decided to demonstrate it to them instead. Jones started a movement called “The Third Wave” and told his students that the movement aimed to eliminate democracy. The idea that democracy emphasizes individuality was considered as a drawback of democracy, and Jones emphasized this main point of the movement in its motto: “Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action, strength through pride.”

The experiment was not well documented at the time. Of contemporary sources, the experiment is only mentioned in the Cubberley High School student newspaper, The Cubberley Catamount. It is only briefly mentioned in two issues, and one more issue of the paper has a longer article about this experiment at its conclusion. Jones himself wrote a detailed account of the experiment years afterwards and more articles about the experiment followed, including some interviews with Jones and the original students.

Read the attached document and answer the following questions:
What were some of the things that Mr. Jones did to get his students to fall in line?
Why was it so easy for everyone to follow Mr. Jones?
Why did it work? Could this type of thing happen today?

Pearl Harbor and 9/11
Word count min 150

The Infamy Speech was a speech delivered by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Joint Session of Congress on December 8, 1941, one day after the Empire of Japan’s attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire. The name derives from the first line of the speech: Roosevelt describing the previous day as “a date which will live in infamy.” Within an hour of the speech, Congress passed a formal declaration of war against Japan and officially brought the U.S. into World War II. The address is one of the most famous of all American political speeches.

A series of terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bush’s first term as president on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 victims lost their lives in the attacks. On the night of September 11, George W. Bush addressed the nation in a speech that has become very well-known.

Read the attached documents and answer the following questions (you also have the option to watch the speeches, linked here):
Compare and contrast the presidential reactions to attacks on the United States by Franklin Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor and George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. How are they similar and different in their messages? In the delivery of their messages?

Foreign Policy Between the Wars
Word count min 200
In these discussion forums, you are allowed and encouraged to use outside resources for your responses.

Should the United States sell arms to other nations?

Reply to Dieter
Word count min 100

I don’t see any problem with the act of the United States selling weaponry to other nations by itself . If these countries feel the need to buy weaponry to defend themselves against a real threat, I don’t see anything wrong with that. However, I really think that there should be more oversight into where the weaponry ends up and whose hands it is falling into. There are numerous examples of the United States sending weaponry to foreign countries and losing sight of it or leaving a whole lot of it behind like was done in Afghanistan, but more recently Ukraine. According to CNN regarding the US sending weapons to Ukraine, “Because the US military is not on the ground, the US and NATO are heavily reliant on information from Ukraine’s government”. The problem with this approach is that Ukraine is not currently in a good spot economically (majority of the news outlets using the word “giving” weapons, not “selling” weapons), so there is a potential for them to be more easily corrupted into selling these weapons to unfriendly countries at a later date. It really looks bad on the United States diplomatically when the groups who get ahold of these weapons use it for their own ends, and it’s no wonder why after all the times this has happened that many people think the US is intentionally doing this. Again, an arms deal is not bad in and of itself, as long as there is enough regulation and care taken to ensure the weapons stay in the right hands. 

Source:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/index.html

Does a coder or supervisor need to remain on-site to facilitate communication with other departments, physicians, etc.?

Week 14 Assignment
Work Redesign

As coding supervisor, you want to institute remote coding at your facility. With an EHR in place, you feel this would be an opportune time to develop a remote program. Your director has asked for a report on the work redesign needed for this transition to occur. Create a memo to director Margaret Smythe using the areas to be addressed (below). Predict the level of difficulty that could be associated with each area.

Implementation of a remote coding program would necessitate work redesign in the following areas:
Query Process
Calls received in the HIM department that require coder assistance
Educational sessions—will they be on-site or on-line or a combination
Does a coder or supervisor need to remain on-site to facilitate communication with other departments, physicians, etc.?

What was the greatest threat to the development of Christianity in the first three centuries?

Description
In this assignment you will focus on the historical context of Early Christianity – 1500 words
The following questions should be addressed in essay format:
• What was the greatest threat to the development of Christianity in the first three centuries?
• How did Christians overcome this challenge?
You will need to analyse the context within which Christianity developed and assess the impact of this on the
development of the Church

Write an essay arguing in support of your interpretation of a key literary element

Description
Write an essay arguing in support of your interpretation of a key literary element (light/darkness theme). In other
words, how does this literary element impact your interpretation of the play? Include a thorough, well-rounded
thesis with key point of the essay.

How are youth susceptible to police investigations and interrogations?

Description
The paper should be 6-8 pages long (not including the cover page or references), and it should answer a question
that you ask about juvenile delinquency.
A good question begins with a “wh-“ or “how” stem, as it can lead to a more complex and interesting answer
than a question that can be answered with a “yes” or a “no.” In addition, a good question is clear; each word is
easily understood. Finally, a good question is answerable using research.
Here are some examples of appropriate questions:
What are the consequences of transferring youth to adult court?
What is the most effective intervention strategy for youth who are in gangs?
How do youth form their attitudes about the police?
How do neighborhoods influence juvenile delinquency?
How does brain development make youth susceptible to delinquency?
How are youth competent or incompetent to make legal decisions in the juvenile justice system?
What are issues of measurement in understanding how many youths engage in delinquency?
How are youth susceptible to police investigations and interrogations?
How does disproportionate minority contact influence the juvenile justice system?
How well can the juvenile justice system predict who will desist and who will persist in juvenile delinquency?
What factors predict persistence in juvenile offending, leading to adult criminal behavior?
How does childhood victimization relate to juvenile delinquency?
What are the effects of bullying on juvenile delinquency?
Once again – this is not a comprehensive list – just a starting point to get you interested in thinking about what
you might want to ask and answer.
Empirical, scholarly, or peer-reviewed research: Empirical/scholarly/peer-reviewed papers derive knowledge
from findings, study and logic, not from emotion or anecdote. Your primary source citations should come from
“peer-reviewed” journals – meaning that these papers were evaluated by other experts before they were
published, allowing them to have more credence. Everything provided under “connecting it to research”
throughout this course meets these criteria. As such, these articles could provide a good starting point for your
paper. However, they are not comprehensive, and it is expected that to do well on this paper you will need to
find additional primary sources. You can find these articles through google scholar – selection criteria for only
showing results that are peer-reviewed. This means that if you choose to include additional sources, such as case
studies, news articles, documentaries, or non-peer-reviewed papers, they cannot be primary sources or evidence.
You can use these other secondary sources to supplement your writing, but most of your evidence should come
from primary sources which are peer-reviewed, or scholarly, journal articles.
Structure of the paper: Your paper should begin with an introductory paragraph where you introduce the topic of
examination. Somewhere in that paragraph, you will want to explicitly state the question you aim to answer, as
well as an outline for what you will cover in your paper. The body of your paper should assess what the state of
knowledge is, based on research that you read and summarize, to help answer your question. Your paper should
conclude with an original evaluation of the state of the field. What is the best answer to the question you ask,
currently? How clear is this answer? Is there conflicting evidence or dissent? What still is unknown? What are
future areas for research on this topic? It is not enough to conclude by restating what is known – your conclusion
should summarize and expand on what you’ve learned.
Aligns with Chapter 1 to 17 of Textbook: Seigel, L. J. & Welsh, B. C. (2018). Juvenile delinquency: Theory,
practice and law. Cengage Learning

To what extent did the emergence of immigrant communities after 1970 change structures of power within German popular culture?

Topic: 

To what extent did the emergence of immigrant communities after 1970 change structures of power within German popular culture?

Description
The paper should use at least some of the sources listed below:

  • Wolfgang Zank, The German Melting-Pot: Multiculturality in Historical Perspective, Basingstoke, Palgrave,
    1998.
  • Dietmar Elflein, ‘From Krauts with Attitudes to Turks with Attitudes: Some Aspects of Hip-Hop History in
    Germany’, Popular Music, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Oct., 1998), pp. 255-265.
    Aksoy, Ozan. “Music and migration among the Alevi immigrants from Turkey in Germany.” Ethnic and Racial
    Studies 42.6 (2019): 919-936.
    Jan Motte / Rainer Ohliger (eds.), 50 Jahre Bundesrepublik, 50 Jahre Einwanderung: Nachkriegsgeschichte als
    Migrationsgeschichte, Campus, Frankfurt, 1999.
    Yvonne Rieker, “Ein Stück Heimat findet man ja immer”: Die italienische Einwanderung in die Bundesrepublik,
    Berlin, Klartext, 2003.
    Bower, Kathrin M. “Minority Identity as German Identity in Conscious Rap and Gangsta Rap: Pushing the
    Margins, Redefining the Center.” German Studies Review 34.2 (2011): 377.
    Andy Bennett, ‘Hip Hop am Main: the Localization of Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture’, Media Culture Society,
    Vol 21 (1999), pp. 77-91.
    Gertrud Pfister, ‘Doing Sport in a Headscarf?: German Sport and Turkish Females’, Journal of Sport History,
    Vol. 27, No. 3 (Fall, 2000).
    Eckert, Stine, and Kalyani Chadha. “Muslim bloggers in Germany: an emerging counterpublic.” Media, Culture
    & Society 35.8 (2013): 926-942.
Demonstrate the UAE’s growing influence/power in the region (particularly amongst gulf nations)

3000 words.
Chapter Title: The United Arab Emirates Economic Approach/Influence within
the MENA region.
-This is a chapter of a Dissertation.
-Any relevant sources can be used.
Examples of some good+relevant sources:

  • Kristian Ulrichsen – The United Arab Emirates: Power, Politics and
    Policymaking
  • Jean-Marc Rickli & Khalid S. Almezaini – The Small Gulf States: Foreign and
    Security Policies Before and After the Arab Spring
  • Christopher Davidson – From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in

Saudi Arabia and the UAE

Objective of this chapter:
• Demonstrate the UAE’s growing influence/power in the region (particularly
amongst gulf nations)
• Is the economy strong or weak and what does it mean in terms of the
country’s power? Provide statistics where necessary.
• Is their economic power influential in the region? If so, then elaborate how or
why with evidence.
• How did its economy grow/start and how is it connected to its political
approach – if any.
• With its current economic power, is the UAE considered a regional power?
-Since this is a chapter of a dissertation – Please do not summarize any of the
sources but rather create an argument/thread.
-Please include references to all citations and provide page numbers where
needed.

Demonstrate and critically analyze the principles involved in carrying out assessments that help both safeguard and promote the wellbeing of those requiring services.

Description
A brief description of the case study in the context of your agency’s remit:
The case study is of a gentleman who I will use a pseudonym and call Joe, to protect his identity. Joe’s case was
presented at a multi-disciplinary team meeting (MDT) where he was interviewed by the GP regarding moving to
a psychiatric hospital as he was presenting symptoms of being schizophrenic. Joe is 28 years of age and has been
in sheltered accommodation for 4 months. Joe presents with challenging behaviours with other residents, family,
and staff at the accommodation.
This worksheet has been developed to help you think about and work towards successfully completing your
academic essay.
You should use this worksheet during allotted times in the lectures and during
independent study. It should help you link the lectures to the learning outcomes and the academic essay to ensure
you remain accurately focused.

  1. Demonstrate and critically analyze the principles involved in carrying out assessments that help both
    safeguard and promote the wellbeing of those requiring services.
  2. Undertake and critically evaluate appropriate interventions in partnership with service users, carers, and other
    significant stakeholders ensuring that practice is anti-racist, anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive.
    Intellectual, practical, affective and transferable skills learning outcomes:
  3. Systematically appraise complex information from a range of sources and negotiate with others to identify the
    most appropriate services and methods of working with individuals, families and networks.
  4. Identify and critically appraise relevant research, policy, legislation and other literature to inform your practice
    of assessment and intervention.
  5. Evaluate work with service users, vcxz and other stakeholders to selectively identify and analyse risks of
    harm, abuse or failure to safeguard and make appropriate judgements and decisions accordingly.
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  6. Demonstrate the Professional Capabilities Framework at the ‘end of last placement’ level of capability. (This
    Learning Outcome is covered by successful completion of the Final Year Practice Portfolio).
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