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 Nike is the leading shoe and athletic apparel company in the United States and one of the largest in the world. In 1993, Nike’s fiscal revenues were as large as the NBA, NFL, and Major League Baseball’s television deals, ticket sales, and paraphernalia sales combined. In addition to their phenomenal sales, Nike has marketed itself so thoroughly that it has literally become a household name. This hefty sum of money seems even more outrageous given the conditions of the factories used to produce these high-dollar goods. Nike does much of its shoe production in countries like China and Haiti where workers cannot be represented by labor unions. These workplaces are called sweatshops. The Department of labor defines a workplace as a sweatshop if it violates two or more of the most basic labor laws including child labor, minimum wage, overtime and fire safety laws (Given,1). In attempts to improve its public image, Nike spokeswomen Donna Gibb argues that the average wage of a Nike worker in Indonesia is double the local minimum wage (Williams,19) . Ironically, in most cases workers actually make less than the minimum wage. In these sweatshops workers are paid $0.70 at best for a pair of shoes that sells for