A decent Factory - Clip

Is it possible to make profit and be ethical? Can you make money and be
good? Ethical questions are coming more critical for Western companies
when they are moving their production to the countries of cheap labour.
Companies are getting sensitive about their reputation as their share holders
are getting more aware of problems with globalisation. A Decent Factory
follows the Ethical Researcher of Nokia company on her trip to China to
examine suppliers of Nokia. Clashes between cultures, between ethics and
profits, become obvious in this new documentary film by Thomas Balmès.
Nokia the biggest mobile manufacturer of the world was born in Finland,
one of the least corrupted country in the world. Because of its incredible
success, the company has expanded its activities to countries where the use
of child labour, violations against human rights and corruption are common
phenomena. The film follows what happens when a puritan Nordic person
with no historical experience of colonialism is facing the realities of
globalisation through her own work. Hanna Kaskinen is Nokias « ethical and
environmental specialist ». The film shows in direct cinema -style how she
travels to China to investigate the conditions in a factory of a local Nokia
supplier. Does the mindful capitalism start with clean teacups for Chinese
workers? How much would it cost us if European employers would pay the
Chinese even according to the local laws? Do we really care, as a British
manager in a factory in China asks?

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• china
• nokia
• thomas balmés
• factory

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