BHiC
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Thanks for the info. There will always be companies using inexpensive labor where they can find it. Probably every country ( at one time or another) had children working in factories. We also had children working in the factories. Everyone back then needed to work to make ends meet. Same with the people you are talking about as well. I think we like to transfer our country and our standards to every other country. That just doesn't work out. What a working wage is here would be a kings ransom in other countries. Look at the per capita income differences in countries across the world. What a dollar would buy here would buy 1000 times that amount of something over there. So ruining an areas economy by paying a lot more to the workers then moving that company out of that area once they found another place to go would destroy that areas economy even more. I don't like sweat shop conditions either but we don't rule the world nor rule what companies do. We buy Chinese products like they are the greatest country for workers rights. They have worse than sweatshop conditions by using slave labor camps, black prisons, child labor,etc.. Of course there are some factories in China that are probably fine to look at and go through. Just what they want you to see, no more. Try going into other areas to look at where something is made that is in an area that is forbidden. Good luck with that.
I agree with you; forced labor is obviously wrong but as long as the people are not being forced to work then they should be paid what they will accept. If their wages are too low then they will stop working and the company will either have to raise wages or shut down. For what its worth, I am pretty sure that Dunlop racquets are made in China and not "one of the world's poorest countries"