{"id":3,"date":"2011-09-15T01:04:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T08:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/?p=3"},"modified":"2011-11-24T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T00:06:11","slug":"ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/2011\/09\/15\/ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was still in my junior years of High School, I came across an article \u201c<a title=\"The Observer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2007\/oct\/28\/ethicalbusiness.india\" target=\"_blank\">Child sweatshop shame threatens Gap&#8217;s ethical image<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Gap Child Labour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalshopping.com\/files\/imagecache\/medium_fig\/files\/images\/gapsweatshop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dan McDougall, The Observer, Sunday 28 October 2007 in a Sunday Paper. The article immediately caught my attention because The Gap Inc. was (and still is) a well-known international clothing retailer with large subdivisions such as <a title=\"Old Navy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldnavy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Old Navy<\/a> and <a title=\"Banana Republic\" href=\"http:\/\/bananarepublic.gap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Banana Republic<\/a>. It also owned a substantial portion of the clothing retail market. Based on the information presented in this article, a contract-supplier of GAP clothing was exploiting children as a cheap form of human capital to reduce production costs (and maximize profits) for a line of GAP clothing. Although GAP Inc.\u2019s policy specifically states: \u201c\u2026if it discovers children being used [\u2026] to make its clothes the child [must be removed] from the workplace\u201d, it failed to enforce its policies. In my opinion, this directly resulted in the unethical practice of child labour by the contract-suppliers, as the sweatshops were administered for the sole purpose of catering to GAP\u2019s demand for inexpensive means of production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was still in my junior years of High School, I came across an article \u201cChild sweatshop shame threatens Gap&#8217;s ethical image\u201d Dan McDougall, The Observer, Sunday 28 October 2007 in a Sunday Paper. The article immediately caught my attention because The Gap Inc. was (and still is) a well-known international clothing retailer with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/2011\/09\/15\/ethics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevinkeng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}