A Decent Factory
Director Thomas Balmés
Countries France
Duration 79 min
Synopsis
Is it possible to make a profit and be ethical? Ethical questions are becoming more serious for Western businesses as they move their production to countries with cheaper labour forces. “A Decent Factory” follows a Nokia Ethics Investigator on her trip to China to visit some of the business' component suppliers. Clashes between cultures, between ethics and profit, become clear in this new documentary by Thomas Balmès. The film puts on show the events that take place when a puritanical Northern European, with no historical experience of colonialism, faces the realities of globalization through her work.
Is it possible to make a profit and be ethical? Ethical questions are becoming more serious for Western businesses as they move their production to countries with cheaper labour forces. “A Decent Factory” follows a Nokia Ethics Investigator on her trip to China to visit some of the business' component suppliers. Clashes between cultures, between ethics and profit, become clear in this new documentary by Thomas Balmès. The film puts on show the events that take place when a puritanical Northern European, with no historical experience of colonialism, faces the realities of globalization through her work.