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Like cutting bamboo: Nike and Indonesian workers' right to freedom of association
Oxfam, 2000
This report assesses how well Nike and its factory partners in one country, Indonesia, are protecting two particular rights, freedom of association and collective bargaining. It is based on peviously unpublished taped interview research conducted in Indonesia in March and April 2000.
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Nike and global labour practices
New Academy of Business, UK, 2001
This case study outlines Nike's experience in developing and implementing various labour practice initiatives in its footwear and apparel factories worldwide. Since the introduction of its first Code of Conduct in 1992, Nike has made considerable progress in developing policies, procedures and partnerships to improve working conditions in the factories where its products are manufactured.
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Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
Should child labor be banned outright? Should the World Trade Organization be given the responsibility to discourage child labor using trade sanctions? The answer to this complicated problem depends on the economic milieu.At least 120 million of the world's children aged 5 to 14 worked full-time in 1995, most of them under hazardous, unhygienic conditions, for more than 10 hours a day.