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To: TimF who wrote (24977)	1/18/2004 7:48:42 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793658

twfowler, >>Is there substantial room for improvement in third world labor conditions? Undeniably. Is a fair wage earned in safe working conditions something that we should all wish devoutly that all workers in the world enjoyed? Without a doubt. But boycotting products from nations with sweatshops, or raising import tariffs to effectively keep them out, would have only one outcome: more poverty<< That's perennial propaganda from capitalist fundamentalists who will go to great lengths to discourage any restrictions on their ambitions for world-wide monopolies. If western countries would impose basic safety standards on 3rd world manufacturers, those same businesses would conform in order to not lose their market share. When greedy multi-national corps initially started their globalization drumbeat, their primary argument was the promise 3rd world working conditions would improve. Today those same corps have stopped even the pretense that noble goals play any part in their push to create global monopolies. They have bribed American shareholders with promises of profits for retirement 401Ks. Those same Americans have in the past championed the abolishment of sweatshops. Today those American shareholders have allowed greed to make them enablers of worker abuse in 3rd world.