Gap Exploitation

Gap Inc. was founded in 1969 by Donald and Doris Fisher in San Francisco, California, with a single store and a handful of employees. Today, they're one of the world's largest specialty retailers with three of the most recognized and respected brands in the apparel industry - Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy. Gap Inc. has more than 153,000 employees supporting over 4,200 stores in more than 3,100 locations in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Japan and Germany. Their 2004 Sales were well over $15 billion, bringing in a net income of $1.03 billion, a 115.7% income growth from previous year.

Gap Inc contracts factories in 64 Countries, allegedly also making clothes within the US . And by "Made in the USA," they mean, "Made in the indigenous countries that, out of desperation, joined the United States in hopes of gaining more stable government regulations, yet remain excluded from basic employment rights and minimum wage laws." The "guest workers" from countries like Saipan, who joined the United States in 1975 to be citizens of the "land of the free," commit themselves to conditions that are simply shameful to basic human rights.