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World Service,15 Aug 2017,9 mins

Nike and the Sweatshop Problem

Witness History

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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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