There have been some talk of how clothing outlets are selling clothes so cheaply because of child labor.  The problem is that the shops have contractors in places like India and China and they therefore have no real control over what happens.  The contractors then send out some of the work to young children who then work from home.  My concerns are:

What happens when these children have their jobs taken away from them.  I know that we shouldn’t have children working instead of going to school.  But what is the real imediate alternative.  I mean, you hear about children who live in the East who are forced in to prostitution.  What would you prefer, to sew sequins onto a t-shirt or be forced into having sex?

Do people even care.  People tend to think that what’s out of sight is out of mind.  At the end of the day we’re somehow programmed to go searching for bargains.  When we see a t-shirt selling for next to nothing we think “great, what a steal”.  But of course who know what was involved in getting it into the shops.