Industry and Services Chapter 12 - Google Docs PDF

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Image description match Economic geography Video on recent history of worldwide narrative on social justice - Nike one of first to get push back bc of its practices - This doc started the change, Nike: Behind the Swoosh - Jim Keady NJ soccer player, offered coaching job at a good school - Studied theology, started looking into nike and sweatshops, then the catholic school he was teaching at made a large deal w/ nike that would req him to promo the company - Given ultimatum, wear nike and drop issue, or resign - He wanted to know the truth, so went to find out with leslie - Tangerang, Indonesia planned to live for a month as the nike workers do, in the slums and on $1.25 a day - Lived in 9x9 room, no furniture or air conditioning - Shared bathroom, living quarters, laundry area, kitchen facility and well w/ 5-10 other families - Found in out in first week can’t live on $1.25 a day and retain human dignity - Work overtime hours to be able to get by, up to 15 hrs a day, 6-7 days a week - Kids can’t go to school and don’t see parents - Nike dumps their shoe rubber and burns it where kids play - Made attempts to get into a Nike factory and were denied - Nike put out sign that told workers to not talk to them or face repercussions/death - Local mafia works in conjunction w/ factory management - Met with someone who had tried to start a union, met another who was jailed and tortured for the same thing - Went to the Nike campus in Oregon, met the Pres of Nike who refused to speak to him about it Best Job in Engineering- Cartographer Dr Lotoya Eaves founder of black geography...