The Swoosh That Starves: Nike’s Return to the Sweatshop Era

Behind the marketing glow and shareholder payouts lies a grim reality in Cambodia, where women making baby clothes for Nike faint from hunger, drown in debt, and still can’t afford formula.

This is one of those stories that forces us to ask: how many smiling ads and ESG reports does it take to bury the truth?

Nike, the Oregon-born corporate Goliath with a swoosh for a conscience, has long claimed it “evolved” since the 1990s sweatshop scandals. It went from PR disaster to so-called “factory reform leader,” a makeover worthy of a Netflix red…