Can we like sweatshops?

Nicely written article on the difficulties facing emerging economies and people in these countries. Its very easy to condemn sweatshops after the economic prosperity the West has seen for the past 100 odd years. But it was not very long ago where the scenes we now read about in Oliver Twist and say tsk tsk, were a routine part of everyday life in every major Western metropolitan area. Many industries prospered and developed because of sweatshops and child labour.

It was only after a generation or two of child labourers grew up and achieved prosperity, that a type of not-anymore spirit began to infuse the general population and throughout the West and North America, sweatshops and child labour have become so unacceptable. I for one also cast a vote for sweatshops.