Authors:Oxfam International , Clean Clothes Campaign , ICFTU
Publisher: Oxfam Publishing
Keywords: industry, oxfam, campaign, reports, sportswear, rights, fair, olympics, respect, workers, play
Number of Pages: 50
Published: 2004-08
List price: $12.75
ISBN-10: 0855985356
ISBN-13: 9780855985356

In August 2004 the world’s athletes gathered in Athens for the Summer Olympic Games. Global sportswear firms spent vast sums of money to associate their products with the Olympian ideal. This report looks behind the branding to ask fundamental questions about the global sportswear industry--questions that go to the heart of debates on poverty, workers’ rights, trade, and globalization. Corporate profits in this industry are created at the expense of the dignity, health, and safety of vulnerable men and women, contravening universal ethical principles. Yet the Olympics movement, particularl