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Externalizing machine * sells for 14.99 women got paid 3 cents * sells for 178 workers paid 74 cents * honduras – condition factories are horrible * company sends spies * women workers gave secretly gave information about who and what they were working for - cathy lee giffer - ironic charity/doniation to various childrens charity * 13 years of age working * women supporting 8 people * bangledash and china offer low cost labor, that’s all they have to offer * hire us bc we will work for 10 cents an hour so we don’t have to starve * so when nike comes in, it’s like a god send to them * garbage dump in domincan republic – nike internal pricing doc = time frame breaks into 10 thousands of a second 6.6 minutes to make shirt = 8 cents * 3/10 of 1% of retail price = wage * corps move onto desperate countries/places * export processing zone = first step towards this wonderful new development through investment that will be a trickle down effect to community * underdvelepment countries have to provide incentive for corps to go to their country * 1940 unlimited scale and new chemicals at virtually no cost * petrochemical era grew - > pose hazard, but they were all trivial and anecotocal * a body of data starting accumulating -> synthetic chemicals -> air water, cancer, birth defects, and other toxic affects * most industries knew about it and attempted to trivialized these risks * it’s a crime to take a gun and shoot you, but its not if I expose u to chemicals that are going to kill you because it takes longer to kill you * we are in a major cancer epidemic - > industry is largely responsible for overwehleomg ep of cancer ½ men get cancer 1/3 women get caner in their life time * rbgh gien to cows since FDA decalred it safe - > heart lng idsney spleen

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