Dissent Of The Day

by Patrick Appel

A reader writes:

 The argument that sweatshops are good is one made in ignorance.  People who believe this tend I fear to define what happens in the world by means of statistics rather than with a variety of tools which might/should include direct, extended experience not simply of the life of someone working in a sweatshop but of her family and community and the local environment.  The negative effects of sweatshops are almost always greater than the seeming growth in...