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Today in class we watched a video about the sweat shops in Indonesia owned by Nike and other large apparel corporations. It amazes me that in this day and age, some people are still forced to live with oppressive, low wage, almost  slave-like jobs. In the late 90s, workers in a Nike sweat shop were paid 1.25$ a day. They'd get what an American on minimum wage would get hourly, in a week. They lived in 9 by 9 rooms with no furniture except a dirty bed roll. Their shacks were built very close to above ground sewers, and during rainy seasons the raw sewage would flow in. Their bedrolls and small amounts of possessions would be engulfed and covered in urine and feces. In my opinion an unacceptable way to treat human beings. The Geneva Conventions wouldn't let a prisoner of war live in such conditions to put it all in perspective.