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Monday, September 06, 2004

One Labor Day Meditation

Courtesy of the Access to Catholic Social Justice Teachings website, Why boycotting sweat shop merchandise does not hurt the poor. Remember today all those who work very hard for very little return.

1 comment:

TS said...

Forced labor in China is the real outrage, but I'm not sure on sweatshops. Jonah Goldberg wrote, "They want to ban "sweatshops" even though low-wage factories are the traditional route for rapid economic growth (just ask the Japanese or Koreans)."

Whole article here:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/printjg20020201.shtml