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Gifts from rich highlight plight of world's poor
Yahoo! News ^ | 11/30/06 | Ana Nicolaci da Costa

Posted on 11/30/2006 8:54:28 AM PST by libertarianPA

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To: antiRepublicrat

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.


81 posted on 11/30/2006 12:13:25 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Hendrix
Union are a very bad Marxist idea.

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.

82 posted on 11/30/2006 12:21:37 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: colorado tanker
I read some details a while back about a "sweatshop" under attack in the press. It was in Indonesia.

That might have been Apple's iPod factory. Or maybe that was in China? Doesn't matter, pretty much the same all over.

83 posted on 11/30/2006 12:39:20 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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