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To: macavity who wrote (42662)12/7/2003 2:21:03 PM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (3) of 74559
 
<<Sub-Market Wages.
I believe that every 10 year old has the right to sew Nike trainers should they so wish.

America for centuries was able to call upon workers to provide their services for non-negotiable rates. It was called slavery.>>

If you're referring to slavery in U.S. pre Civil War, it did not endure for centuries. USA won independence in 1776. Less than 100yrs later the North & South fought Civil War & as a result, slaves were free(thousands of lives were lost in that struggle). If a worker with safe working conditions & family-supporting wage does a reasonable day's work(not sweatshop), that worker is entitled to a certain percentage of profit from that product or service. That's simple human decency & should be the criteria for business everywhere in the world.

You are wrong about child labor. Those youngsters are entitled to childhood. Desperation of poverty causes parents to pressure their young ones into labor market. The world is stepping backwards to uncivilized ages when barbarians ruled. The timeless barbarian is greed. Humans who don't see the injustice of child labor, are brutal beings without sensitivity to the beauty of life. If society does not protect it's most vulnerable, it is corrupt, inept & useless.

Naturally workers agree to contracts in slave wage countries. What else could they do? Starve to death with their children? Human decency should be the standard for wages. Every worker is entitled to a living wage that enables him/her to raise their family with dignity.
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