Where does MACCA stand on globalization?
In their book, Global Dreams, Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh describe Nike’s manufacturing operations in Indonesia. The world’s leading seller of sport shoes and apparel employs 8,000 people in management, design, sales, and promotion and leaves production in the hands of some 75,000 workers, mostly in Indonesia. A pair of Nikes that sells in the United States or Europe for $73 to $135 is produced for about $5.60 by girls and young women paid as little as fifteen cents per hour. The workers are housed in company barracks. There are no unions; the’re simply not allowed. Overtime is often mandatory. If there is a strike, the military may be called to break it up. The $20 million that basketball star Michael Jordan reportedly made in 1992 for lending his “talent” to promote Nike exceeded the entire payroll of the Indonesian factories that made them. In his international best selling book, When Copporations Rule The World, David Korten describes the effect of globalization: “The global e
