good rest/sleep, there are also people falling asleep during the working hours because of the long hours. In the factories it is cramped, hot and the machines in the factory make it an unsafe working environment. It is also minimum wages so it’s hard to provide my family with education, shelter and food.

NGO stands for Non-Government Organisations. They are not-for-profit groups that work with everyone from the companies and their workers to governments and often other NGOs. They are to educate the workers, provide short to long term support for less-developed countries during natural disasters and empowering workers’ rights. They also work with governments to raise minimum wages and lower maximum hours a week in less-developed countries. They also encourage companies to promise for better worker conditions and for the companies to then enforce it.

many other reasons that need to be changed. Excessive hours without extra pay, low wages are many problems that workers face in poorer countries in clothing factories. This can lead to stress. If these factories were to be closed down the consequences are huge. The workers lose their job and do not have any income. This could force them to live in slums and have not enough food and lack of shelter. To get better working conditions and wages the most successful protests have been with large amounts of people and them working together. Also by saying what they want changed and helping each other out. These protests can lead to success and it has happened. They gathered in large numbers, had many reasons for why they should do the protest and so it worked because of this.

Overall the effect of globalisation has greatly affected the environment throughout the world. Globalisation foundation is cheap labour, without cheap labour globalisation would be minor compared to what it is today. Well why cheap labour? Cheap labour is used to maximise profits which has great effect on the environment as cheap labour is only possible if there are no treatment plants as well cheap labour occurs where the tax rates are extremely low, which means the government has limited funds to control pollution. A big sector of the industry contributes to the use of cheap labour and harming the environment, this industry is the TCF industry (textile industry). . You may be thinking that big and popular companies such as Nike and Adidas do not use cheap labour and do not pollute the world, but this is incorrect. Two of the biggest sport companies in the world Nike and Adidas pollute just as much as other companies or if not more. Both Nike and Adidas are corporates for polluting 2 major rivers in China, the Yangtze (China’s longest river) and the Pearl river. Waste water which contains hazardous and toxic chemicals were released into these rivers. Some of the chemicals include of nonylphenols and perfluorinated chemicals which are used to make materials stain and stick resistant, these chemicals are banned in European countries due to their harm to the environment. These actions of these major companies had major effects on the environment, fish and marine life consumed this water which caused the rivers to be full of dead fish. The deadly waste water also killed the environment surrounding the rivers and many humans were affected as the Yangtze and Pearl rivers are the source of drinking water for 67 million people, which is 3 time the population of Australia! Both Nike and Adidas stated that they have made sure that this incident won’t occur again. Overall globalisation, in particular the textile industry destroy and kill the environment in many ways but this can be easily stopped if companies decided to make the eco decision and not destroy the environment that we live in.

Angela Davis

Indra Nooyi