The Film Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is a short documentary accounting the lives of sweatshop workers employed by Nike. Two journalists immerse themselves in the daily lives of the workers and commit to mimicking their lifestyle by observing where they sleep, how long they work and what meager food and financial stability the sweatshop offers them at the end of a very long and streonous work day.
This research revealed that it costs precisely $3 to make a pair of Nike shoes, including matericals and labor, and it costs $6 to shit per unit. On average Nike's price point is between $80-$160. Surely there is room in that profit margin to pay your employees enough to have a proper matress and enough food to feed their children.
Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh. Accessed 1991. Youtube.
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