Nike and the Sweatshop Problem

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In the 1990s students began boycotting Nike after it became linked to sweatshops. Many were horrified to find their trainers were being made by poorly paid Indonesian workers.

Photo: Cicih Sukaesih telling her story in America in 1996 (courtesy of Jeff Ballinger)

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0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello and thank you for
1:00.7	downloading this witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with
1:05.2	me Claire Bowes. History as told by the people who were there. Today I'm taking you back to the early
1:11.9	1990s when one of the world's best-known brands, Nike,
1:16.4	began to attract bad publicity over working conditions in factories.
1:21.2	Fans of the sports retailer started to boycott the company when they found out how their
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