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Jobs says the shape is more important than the colors anyway. Referring to Nike's famous symbol, he adds, "The shape is our swoosh...
DOWNSIZED BY THE DIRECTOR In his documentary The Big One, anti-corporate crusader Michael Moore visits Nike CEO Phil Knight to challenge the shoe company's use of cheap Indonesian labor. In the film Knight seems evasive, edgy and ultimately tripped up by Moore's relentless interrogation. But did the filmmaker unfairly tailor Knight's appearance? In an effort to wipe the treadmarks off his reputation, Knight has put outtakes on Nike's Website www.nikebiz.com) There Moore, who comes off as an attack dog in the film, is heard purring to Knight, "I honestly think you're the good...
...believe standards such as no child labor, freedom from abuse and rights to a living wage and collective bargaining are realistically enforceable policies. Setting up a complex private educational system, through Harvard's licensees, in the factories, is in no way realistic. Furthermore, the idea of corporations such as Nike taking over the role of educators of children is a rather problematic one. Finally, it is difficult to envision making child labor "better," because there is something deeply wrong about children being physically and psychologically warped in their formative years by long and strenuous labor...
After all, what is the first thing that happens when you ban a company producing sneakers for Nike in Thailand from hiring child workers? You put children out of jobs. And while in principle the idea of children working long hours under questionable conditions might seem unacceptable to Western sensibilities, the alternative of surviving without even an exploitative job for support is much worse. Most of these kids work because they have to, and will continue to do so whether Western firms hire them...
...answer to child labor is not to ban Western companies from hiring kids, for a variety of reasons. For one, if the Nike factory doesn't hire them, some other probably more exploitative local manufacturer (over whom Western public opinion holds little sway) will...if they're lucky. If not, then they'll probably just try to survive by begging or rummaging through rubbish heaps--too many kids are forced to do this already...