I don't think your going to win many friends with this argument. I tend to believe we need to lead the way by examining what and how the products we purchase are made and then to set the bar a little higher than sweatshops... Consumer groups given a fair amount of access to the media would probably put people to enough shame that they would stop the practice... in addition it can also be credibly put forth that higher wages... as Henry Ford showed with his $5 a day wage actually increased economic activity... but let me be clear... in no way is it the government's job to police this...

There's nothing wrong with private pressure without the threat of government violence, but unfortunately, the group that won this anecdotally good victory are pushing for state-enforced policies that would harm the poor, not help them.

Anti-state and anti-war is never going to make you lots of friends. That's not why I--and I expect any other libertarian,-- does this stuff.

Thanks for your thoughts. :]

"Sweatshops" and "child labor" as we demonizingly call them are an essential element to the development of not only a middle class but also surging a country forward out of its "industrial revolution". 

I guess it's really a matter of opinion as to whether you prefer children to suffer/starve in third world countries, or to give them a a job and a chance at a future. As for raising the minimum wage, it actually increases unemployment and reduces economic productivity.

You Children of the Tea Partiers need to wake up and take a civics lesson in addition to your oversimplified "supply vs demand" theory of workers' wages vs supply of jobs that you learned in 9th grade.  Note that history shows that unionization of workers raises living standards for all.  Go back and read the article about the anecdotal victory the anti-sweatshop movement had that you posted a link to at the beginning of this article.  The workers were fired, sure.  But then they organized and were rehired.  So where is your "jobs disappearing" act now?  Nowhere.  The whole point of Fair Trade wages is to make it so that parents of children in third world countries can earn enough to send their children to school instead of having them slave away at a job on the plantation.  Get a clue.

Excuse me, but I almost forgot.  You wouldn't want to actually support union organizing in these third world countries that have sweatshops because the anti-union thugs that are closely aligned with that "evil government" that you oppose because it  might actually end up imposing fair working conditions and wages, these thugs might actually take up arms (re:The blood of Patriots) and KILL your poor exploited workers and union organizers.  Killing like that just isn't humanitarian, so these poor exploited workers should just bend over and take it up the bum.  You forget of course that the gains made by the working class in the US through union organizing took sacrifice (a word that you champions of Freedom seem not to want to ask the exploited workers to make in their struggles).  You seem to imply that what little freedom we have was served to us on a platter by a Capitalist.  Go back and re-read your history, and not some censored history book from the Texas school system either.

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