Word: knightings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Knight: They're not 12-year-olds working in factories... The minimum...
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...Moore shows the ubiquity of job loss and corporate apathy--in every city Moore's book tour leads him to, he has no trouble unearthing some corporate atrocity that the rest of us took for granted. The movie climaxes in a rare interview between Moore and Nike CEO Phil Knight, in which Knight admits that he thinks it's okay for fourteen-year-old Indonesian girls to make his shoes. But Moore mishandles even this scene, relentlessly fishing for some explosive soundbite instead of trying to debate Knight...
Upon reaching Portland, Ore., Moore is at his best as he interviews Nike CEO Phil Knight, the only CEO who agreed to talk with Moore on camera. Moore asks Knight why Nike refuses to let Americans manufacture Nike shoes. (At the IOP, Moore claimed Nike tried to pressure him into editing out much of this interview.) Nike, like the other companies Moore features reaped substantial profits during the documentary's filming...
...means are they trouble free. Make no mistake: these are factories, not amusement parks, and even in developing Asia, where jobs are scarce and getting scarcer, this is not the employment of choice. It's low-tech assembly work that hasn't changed much since Nike chairman Phil Knight first started sourcing sneakers in Japan 35 years ago. Since then, the work has migrated in search of ever cheaper labor...