You'll have to go to the website to get the full rollover glory of the picture, but this articles a good piece of pop info on globalisation and trade, at least by implication ...
And while we're on the subject, here's a useful article on how the Ethical Trading Initiative is doing. And the conclusion;
campaigners in this area seem to agree that the only way to get the big companies to change at this point is regulation and legislation. If we are depending just on voluntary codes and self-regulation, it is going to be slow progress. For now, working conditions are still sunk in the 19th century, except that the sweatshops are that much further away.
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