For my opinion editorial I intend to look at the brands of apparel that BYU sells in the BYU bookstore and research the manufacturing of those brands to determine whether or not they outsource, and if so what the working conditions of their manufacturing plants are. The purpose will be to determine if sweatshops exist under those companies.
Last semester in my Comms 101 class I did a small analysis on Nike manufacturing and discovered that they have been struggling to end sweatshop conditions among their overseas manufacturing plants in Asia. I don't perfectly recall what I found, but I believe I read among the research I did that currently nearly two-thirds of Nike factories don't live up to company standards.
It would interest me to see if the trend exists under the other brands, such as Under Armour, Puma, Adidas, Badger Sports, and Champion. If there is a trend, it is clearly bad, which would take us from the question as to whether it exists directly to the third question regarding globalization issues: what should we do about it?
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