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Good opinion piece on sweatshops in NY Times today

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hardway Posted: Thu, Jan 15 2009 7:08 PM

I think that the people who argue for raising wage and working condition standards are well meaning, but it they thought it through for a minute, or travelled to a place without sweatshops, as this guy has, they'd understand where they're going wrong.

It's easy to see pictures of sweatshops, or even to travel to someplace with a sweatshop, and be appalled with the working conditions, relative to those in the developed world.  But this article takes you to a place that can only dream of having a sweatshop set up there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html?hp

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Eric replied on Fri, Jan 16 2009 11:58 AM

My teacher mentioned that in class, one of the only point that I agree with him on, we also talked about the situation where activists made Nike stop employing children thus "forcing" man of them into prostitution.

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