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Play Fair at the Olympics
45 Hours of Forced Overtime in One Week
Published: 2004
Pages: 80
eBook: 9780855988241
Paperback: 9780855985356
Nike, along with Adidas, Reebok, Fila, Puma, ASICS, and Mizuno, are investing billions of dollars in advertising and branding for the Olympics. For these corporate giants of the sportswear industry, the Athens games provide an opportunity to expand profits and build markets through an association with sporting success and the Olympian ideal.While the world's media spend two weeks focusing on the struggle for sporting success, away from the cameras thousands of workers - mostly women in the developing world -employed to produce the tracksuits, trainers, vests, and team uniforms will be engaged in a different type of struggle. They too are breaking records for the global sportswear industry: working ever-faster for ever-longer periods of time under arduous conditions for poverty-level wages, to produce more goods and more profit. Yet for them there are no medals, rewards, or recognition from the industry that they service
Summary
Introduction
Faster longer Cheaper
To long and too hard
Poverty wages
Employed - but on precarious terms
Bullied humiliated abused
Trade unions undermined
Winning profits losing rights
The global sportswear industry
Making money in a competitive market
How buyers buy
Flex and squeeze: the suppliers response
Whose responsibility?
Fair play for workers
Time tp play fair
Make the change
Appendix
Respect for trade-unions rights - the gap between rhetoric and reality
Background research reports
Notes.
Introduction
Faster longer Cheaper
To long and too hard
Poverty wages
Employed - but on precarious terms
Bullied humiliated abused
Trade unions undermined
Winning profits losing rights
The global sportswear industry
Making money in a competitive market
How buyers buy
Flex and squeeze: the suppliers response
Whose responsibility?
Fair play for workers
Time tp play fair
Make the change
Appendix
Respect for trade-unions rights - the gap between rhetoric and reality
Background research reports
Notes.
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