Turns out, about 1 million children age 10 to 15 were working in America in 1920 (out of a total population of 12 million kids in that age range). About half worked on family farms. The rest did everything else, working in factories, trained as apprentices, and served as messengers.

Young lads in urban areas often earned their living as newspaper carriers or as couriers. In many towns, mills and glass factories regularly employed girls and boys. Young children worked in the fields performing farm labor and on the coasts in the seafood industry.

As industrial laborers, children received only money in exchange for their work-and very little money at that. Now they worked in crowded, noisy, impersonal, and often polluted surroundings, often subject to the authority of some- one who hardly knew them. Long hours kept them out of school.

Our research highlights several ethical issues with Adidas. These include workers’ rights – paying excessively high wages to executives, while failing to pay garment workers in the supply chain enough to cover even basic needs.

Nike is not used to playing catchup, but Adidas is beating it in technology, innovation and style. Adidas is still much smaller than Nike: Adidas brought in $5.3 billion in 2017 compared with Nike’s $15.2 billion. But Adidas has a better sense for what consumers want to buy, which is making Nike sweat.

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