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Nike’s Gold Standard

Testing Nike’s Corporate Responsibility Claims

In 2016, Nike co-founder Phil Knight wrote that the shoe maker had risen above a sweatshop scandal of the 1990s, with one person venturing that the company had become the “gold standard” for responsible manufacturing. Has reality matched the rhetoric?

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