Labor Practices Within the Nike Corporation

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This paper discusses the various investigations by different sources into rumored unfair labor practices by sports equipment manufacturer Nike. This paper details the results of the investigations which revealed the same pattern of problems in various Nike production plants in Asia. The writer of this paper compares Nike's labor practices to those of other factories in Asia. This paper also contains strategic solutions to improving the current working conditions of the laborers employed in these same plants.

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Introduction
Working Conditions
Long Working Hours
"Wages May Be Low, But People Want These Jobs"
Evaluation
Bibliography

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"It is true that workers in shoe factories in Indonesia enjoy conditions which are better than those in many other industries, and for some, better than those at home in the village. And the jobs are sought after. But what this means is that, while things may be bad in these factories, they are even worse elsewhere - especially for the unemployed. For despite the increase in the number of factory jobs in Indonesia, unemployment among 20 to 24 years old is still very high. The people who work in these factories have not, as the quote above implies, been drawn away from subsistence agriculture by better incomes in manufacturing."

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