Nike Child Labor

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Child labor, a lot of companies use children for cheap labor. Some big companies like Nike and saga use cheap child labor in poor countries. You shouldn’t buy from companies who use child labor, because they pay of the children and the treatment of the children. The pay of the children that work in these factors is very little. A lot of the kids get paid less than a dollar a day (John H. Cushman Jr.). “Mr. Knight’s pledges did not include increased wage, a major complaint of critics who say that Nike and other American companies pay workers in China and Vietnam less than $2 a day and workers and workers in Indonesia less than $1 a day” (John H. Cushman Jr.). Children are doing jobs meant for adults and they get

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