Summary: Where Do My Nike Gear Come From

Where Do My Nike Gear Come From? Where do all my clothes I were everyday come from? Well, everywhere except from the place I am from. From my socks, boxers, pants, shirts, and jackets most of them if not all are from oversees. It’s crazy to believe almost all of wore drove that I wear comes from hundreds and thousands miles away just to end up in my small cramped closet at my mom’s house. Why people may ask, in the end it comes to the wonderful theory or believe of good old capitalism. Good old capitalism making profit even though effects may hurt others, but is okay because someone is winning and its fair game. It’s all in the mindset of the Million and billion dollar textile companies who want to become …show more content…
This allows companies like my favorite brand Nike, with corporate headquarters in the U.S. Shut down their factories in the United States, and move overseas as stated in the document “Form 10-k” to countries like “China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Taiwan, El Salvador, Mexico, India and Israel”, where there are less restrictions and cheaper labor. As a result of this human rights laws, especially those pertaining to women, are bent to the extreme. Which can result in experiencing verbal and physical abuse and sexual harassment in the workplace In the article “Working Conditions in the Global Fashion Industry" states “many employees normally have to work between 10 to 12 hours, sometimes 16 to 18 hours a day and over time if workers cannot work the additional hours they face penalties, verbal abuse and dismissals”. By moving its production sites to places like Asia, Nike is able to pay workers a low minimum wage, also allowing the corporation to dodge responsibility for the treatment of its work force. Nike have managed to devise a plan to escape the responsibility and liability of insuring that it assembly line sites are safe, healthy and fair labor places of work, by subcontracting to foreign owned and