Channel 4's documentary Globalisation is Good (20 September 2003) certainly lived up to its billing as "controversial" . In fact it could easily have been called "Sweatshops are Good".
For instance, the film showed a Nike factory in Vietnam where the boss and some carefully chosen workers said that they thought Nike was a brilliant employer (loans, sports facilities, clean factory, high wages, etc.).
The film cut to "anti-globalisation" protests in which No Sweat banners featured heavily, with a commentary which claimed that "this boycott movement" would stop production going to Vietnam.
We were invited at the end of the programme to "make our views known". Go to www.channel4.com/thinkTV and protest!
Link: Channel 4
Score: 1/10
Reviewer: Tim Cooper
