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Nike Sweatshops in Indonesia
by: Ben Thompson
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• Nike has 43 factories and one hundred and sixty thousand workers in Indonesia alone.
• Workers are making a mere dollar and twenty-five cents a day.
• Kids are being forced to work long, hard hours in hot, crouded factories.
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• Factory bosses work in coherence with the local mafias to have them enforce rules and treating non-listening workers.
• If they don’t do what is asked there wiped, beat, killed, threatened at gun point, and/or have their house rant sacked.
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• Nike is paying Tiger Woods enough money that every second he could buy a house in the slums of Indonesia.
• Tiger Woods makes as much as a person in Indonesia does in 9.5 years in 1 round of golf.
VS.
1Round of Golf 9.5 years of work
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Behind the Swoosh
• Behind the Swoosh is an organization that is trying to improve the working conditions in the sweatshops of Indonesia.
• Education for Justice is another organization Jim Keady started
to help raise money to help improve the working conditions.
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Jim Keady
• Jim Keady was born in 1973
• He is single with a three year old daughter
• He was born in Belmar, N.J.
• He has a masters degree with distinction in theology from St. John’s University
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Average Hourly Apparel Worker Wages
Hourly Wage in U.S. $• Bangladesh $0.13• China $ 0.44• Costa Rica $2.38• Dominican Republic $1.62• El Salvador $1.38• Haiti $0.49• Honduras $1.31• Indonesia $0.34• Nicaragua $0.76• Vietnam $0.26
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Hourly Wage of an Apparel Worker in U.S. Money
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Sweatshop Weekly Wages Compared To Other Countries.
Country Weekly Wage per Person
Indonesia Sweatshop Worker $23.80
Laos $51.90
Vietnam $66.34
Japan $659.60
United States $925.00
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• Workers are being exposed to harmful chemicals in the factories.
• Nike burns scrap materials in villages where kids play everyday exposing them to harmful fumes.
• Kids are getting lung and breathing problems
from this. Jim Keady,with Nike tags,infont of a pile of Nike trash that’s about to be burned
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• The burning of scraps gives the kids breathing problems.
• The kids are being forced to play in different areas because of the burning of the scraps.
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Work Cited• Behind the Swoosh. Perf. Jim Keady. Documentary• Fisher, Fredrick. Indonesia. North America: Gareth Stevens, 2000. Print.• Nike Sweatshops - Try Not to Cry. Dir. Somenextstuff. Somenextstuff, 2007.
Slide program.• Riley, Judy. "News & Events | Jim Keady: Behind the Swoosh." University of
Minnesota Morris.1 Dec.2008.Web. 20 Feb.2012http://www.morris.umn.edu/newsevents/view.php?itemID=6937
• "Who Is Jim Keady?" Behind the Swoosh. Www.ciaspeakers.com. Web. 20 Feb. 2012. <http://www.ciaspeakers.com/pages/documents/jim_keady_flyer_r3.pdf>.
• Ritter, Brian. "Jim Keady: National Hero." Yahoo! Voices - Voices.yahoo.com.Www.yahoo.com,7 Jan. 2010. Web. 20 Feb. 2012. <http://voices.yahoo.com/jim-keady national-hero-5195459.html>.