MGM102H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Tacit Collusion, Rio Declaration On Environment And Development, Ikea
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It violated safety measures, mandated overtime, and used child labor. If they were, they would terminate their contract immediately. In 1995, a german tv program broadcasted that rangan exports, a major supplier of rugs to ikea falsely advertised the company as an employer of child labor. Ikea, under the pretenses that they were immediately cut the contract, only to re-establish later upon discovering the story was fabricated. Ikea rejected an invitation to join the rugmark consorium; they felt uncomfortable with their no child labor employed promise because their production process was too large and too fragmented to monitor. Beyond control, toward prevention: barner gradually developed a richer understanding of the causes of child labor, poverty, poor health. Illiteracy: gender discrimination, social norms, she became convinced that the simplistic solutions of the western world (boycotting, sanctions) would not lead to the elimination of child labor.
