[lbo-talk] Re: Nike in Vietnam

Daniel Davies d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Dec 1 09:38:55 PST 2003


Ulhas wrote:


>>Nike used to be a target of anti-imperialist agit-prop on Net, so long as it
sourced its supplies from Indonesia. Now that Nike has largely shifted its production bases to China and Vietnam, we don't frequently hear about Nike's obnoxious policies.<<

Note that, from a development point of view, it is much more obnoxious to run a sweatshop in China or Vietnam than in Indonesia or the Philippines. Both China and Vietnam have publicly provided education, so it's not even possible for the neoliberal argument "the children working in the factories are being given a job that's better than scrounging for rubbish. etc" to go through. The young employees of the Vietnamese and Chinese plants are directly being taken out of school, a development model known to be bad.

cheers and hullo again

dd

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