IKEAs position as a global sourcing company with no ownership of the means of production demands at least a modicum of personal control over the social/environmental/ethical manner in which its products are produced and supplied and stands to lose a great deal of revenue from the sales of rugs and other products if a consumer boycott occurs, as has happened in past similar situations. IKEA therefore has a central responsibility to act in a way that supports the goals of the company to source ethically in a public manner (Hue, 2009)
What had come before was mechanized and inhuman, as Carr notes, echoing Dickens in his assessment of what was wrong with children's education in the 19th century: "The nineteenth-century fetishism of facts was completed and justified by a fetishism of documents. The documents were the Ark of the Covenant in the temple of fact" (Carr 16)
This was as true for England as it was for the Continent. Industrialized urban centers in Spain were no different from those in the UK or other parts of Europe (Cunningham 414-416)
Industrialized urban centers in Spain were no different from those in the UK or other parts of Europe (Cunningham 414-416). Grievances illustrated artistically in the popular novels of Dickens were matched by writers and activists in other nations: Spain had its Realists, just as France had Emile Zola, who was preceded by Victor Hugo (author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables) and Honore Daumier (Goldstein 43)
But the issue is not one of anarchy; it is rather one of fairness. Children should not be used as slaves -- but there is a difference between a child "doing one's bit" and a child who is exploited for a factory's or a multinational's monetary gain, as is the case in places like China today (Morrow 436)
The demand for better and fairer constitutional representation by men in mid-19th century England was a clear indication of the direction in which the labor unions were heading: more responsibility for men ("the breadwinners"), less exploitation of children (they should be in school, not in the factories). The Chartists helped lay the ideological foundation in the UK for the labor movement and the impact that the unions would ultimately have throughout Europe (Pickering 144)
Labor, Unions, Children and Education Throughout Europe in the 19th century and prior, communities viewed child labor as an outlet for poor families -- a way for every member of the family (including children) to contribute to the household. However, prior to the rise of Industrialization in the 19th century, labor was less intensive, less modernized, less factory-based and factory-driven -- and, therefore, less detrimental to the physical well-being of minors (Pleck 178)
Labor in Europe in the 19th Century: Exploitation and the Rise of Labor Unions As Carolyn Tuttle of Lake Forest College points out, the first textile mills in England were bad enough to elicit the opprobrious condemnation of none other than Charles Dickens in the 19th century, who scorned them as "dark satanic mills" (Tuttle)
, in mid-19th century was far different than it had been in mid-18th century. Thus, the role that labor unions played in the shift in the 19th century was essentially that of facilitator: the 19th century tested the Marxist view that capitalism was "mainly a bipolar struggle between capital and labor" (Wetzel)
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