Posted on 11/30/2006 8:54:28 AM PST by libertarianPA
I read some details a while back about a "sweatshop" under attack in the press. It was in Indonesia. Turns out the workers were paid about twice what they could earn back in the village. Most were young women and they saved enough to send money back to their families every month. Some exploitation.
I wouldn't go that far. Unions in the past have stopped some serious abuses of the workers. And there is the Solidarity union of Poland that helped end communism in Europe.
That might have been Apple's iPod factory. Or maybe that was in China? Doesn't matter, pretty much the same all over.
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