This is a study of two football producers, Mikasa Industries (Thailand) and Molten Thailand. Both are Japanese investment companies and produce footballs, volleyballs and basketballs for export...Molten Thailand is producing for Adidas, and its balls are used in the 2006 World Cup. Mikasa Industries is producing for their own brand, “Mikasa."...TLC wishes to stress that these factories are no worse then others in the area, and in some aspects may compare favorably. For example on occupational health and safety, and also Molten offers long term contracts for regular workers. At the same time, as you can read below, even after working for 18 years producing footballs, a Thai woman worker can only pay for very basic necessities and a new worker will make only half of her money, and can not live in dignity...Workers at both Molten and Mikasa tell about a climate of repression, where workers are afraid to exercise their trade union rights.