Academics Studying the ISSUES of Athletic and Campus Apparel

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USAS, an international coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor

This Web Site February, 2001, Maintained by David M. Boje, Ph.D. Professor of Management, NMSU Homepage

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ISSUES; In The News; Globe Project; Where to Find It?; Research Projects; Key Research; Post.USAS

ISSUES

	The issue is greed. "Greed is good!" says Michael Douglas in the movie, Wall Street. Yet, we know that greed is not good. Greed and profit are not the same thing.
	Confusing greed with profit is the issue. Greed crosses an invisible ethical line. Profit is healthy business strategy, but greed is an addiction.
	New Mexico State University (NMSU) is part of a chain of greed. The university licenses its apparel manufacture to a corporation, who subcontracts to a sweatshop, and at the end of this chain is the young woman who makes our clothes, but there is no money left to pay her a living wage. The greed of the entire supply chain is a addiction that robs the woman who makes our clothes of her right to a living wage.
	The issue is the entire system of global capitalism. It is a rigged game, in which our cheap clothing is purchased at our university bookstore, at the expense of the women in sweatshops around the world.
	The issue is a university profit should not include the greed of consumers for products made in sweatshops that oppress women around the world.
	The issue is the game of world trade is set up so that helpless, young female workers suffer.
	Child labor is a serious problem with over 250 million children working around the world. The issue is we can stop it. Young women, from 14 to 21 are also sucked into the supply chain of greed.
	Athletic Apparel Industry Tamara - The issue is the Theatrical Performances of Athletic Apparel Industry Logo Corporations and Monitors.
	United Students Against Sweatshops of NMSU. We can put a human face on greed. We have only to look in the mirror. When we do not look at the label, before we buy, we are complicit with greed. When we buy from a manufacturer or a label we do not know, chances are that low price comes from the supply chain of greed. When we do not monitor the quality of work life in the factories where women make our clothing, then we are complicit with greed. It is students (and some faculty) around the world, that are demanding that their universities adopt a higher code of ethics than greed. When a university is complicit with greed it is no longer a place of higher learning.
	The issue is to learn the stories of the women who make your clothing. Greed works these women to their death. When women can tell their stories, the sweatshop owners will run. Right now, when women tell their sweatshop stories to university students and faculty, they are punished and terrorized by greedy corporate and sweatshop owners. Stores are dangerous and powerful. Tell her story, a woman making our clothing, empowers herself to change the conditions of predatory capitalism. Yet, telling her story can get her killed in many countries. Stores are tranformative and they are dangerous.
	The issue is the consumers can examine their own purchase choices, investigate the stories of women in sweatshops, and treat advertising with the skepticism it deserves.
	Get involved, join a United Students Against Sweatshop chapter at your university. Start one if you do not have one.

IN THE NEWS - ISSUES - Learn what is going on in the world

	In the News Main Site
	Impact on Stock Market of Campus and Athletic Apparel Protest
	Nike, Reebok, Adidas & New Balance in the News
	The Globe Project: In the News by Country

GLOBE PROJECT: Find the non-disclosed locations of Athletic and Campus Apparel factories. Where are the secret Athletic and Campus Apparel factories? As soon as we systematically identify where they are, we can monitor what they are doing.

We want to find comparable factories where working conditions are better.

What are the condition of factories where New Mexico State University Campus Story buys its garments with our logo on them?

Contact dboje@nmsu.edu if you know where they are.

	Australia
	Bulgaria
	Cambodia
	Canada
	China
	El Salvador, Guatemala
	Indonesia
	India
	Korea
	Mexico
	Pakistan
	Philippines
	Taiwan
	Thailand
	Vietnam
	USA

Factory List

Hot Spots

Mexico is HOT HOT HOT

Statistics

Working Conditions

ACADEMICS STUDYING ... What are the Studies?

The Studies focus on the Way Women are organizing to demand LIVING WAGES, SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS, and COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. The Global anti-sweatshop movement is a WOMEN'S MOVEMENT. A reaction to male dominated global capitalism. We are studying this as a Global Movement:

GLOBE PROJECT - Find the Factories?

OUR RESEARCH PROJECTS/CONFERENCES

LOST?

WHERE TO FIND IT? --

NOTICE

Professional Development Workshop by Academics Studying Athletic and Campus Apparel proposed for August 4, (Saturday) 2001 in Washington D.C.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Our Research Project includes Nike, Reebok, Adidas, etc. and ATHLETIC and Campus APPAREL INDUSTRY. We seek to go beyond just the study of NIKE to look at Reebok, Adidas, and other players in Athletic and Campus Apparel. 45 Academics from around the world are meeting at conferences on two continents to get at several important research questions.

	We submitted in October, 2000 RESEARCH by 4 Academic study teams to research Sweatshops in Athletic & Campus Apparel Industry
	February 23, 2001 - We updated this proposal in February, expanding its focus to study the entire industry -- please comment on it

LINKS

	SWEATSHOPS press release
	MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT BEING REVIEWED BY NIKE from Boje et al. September 16, 2000 And now in February, 2001 we make the proposal to foundations and the other corporate and campus logo purveyors.
	See Academy of Management Showcase 2000 Session on "Time and Nike"

KEY RESEARCH RESOURCES

United Students Against Sweatshops of NMSU

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