Just Don't Do It?

Nike recently canceled a contract with the Pakistani factory that produced its soccer balls due to child labor violations, however the loss of 5,000 jobs may do more to damage the region than help the children. From the Christian Science Monitor:

"They could have found some alternative way with Saga," says Khawaja Zakauddin, who heads the anti-child labor wing of the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "To go away is the worst solution. If Nike moves from here, these people will have no work."

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Some say that Nike could have done more. Adidas maintains its own internal monitoring cell in Sialkot; Nike does not, observers say.

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