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    bangers: Timmerman isn't the first 'name' intellectual to support child labor in some cases by any means. Even Jeffrey Sachs (or "Bono's pal") argued for organ... more »
    Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: When child labor is boycotted, the clothes still have to get made, either by another factory with better labor conditions, or by the same factory with... more »
    Red-headed bookworm: How interesting, I need to read this. Yes, to us here in the US and other wealthy countries that have strict labor laws, "child labor" sounds horrible... more »
    Grim Reaper of the Forest: I always feel like a capitalist douchebag when I try to point out that boycotting factories that pay low wages and employ kids in the 3rd world is not... more »
    unionmaid: I agree that it is a very nuanced situation but I would also like to say that just because some groups call for a boycott doesn't mean that they are k... more »
    Ben Popken: There's a difference between kids working on the family farm and being sold into work slavery. more »
    Sandicomm: I recently wrote a paper about a related subject--globalization and how that's affecting the New York Garment District. It is a tough issue to handle.... more »
    Scout: I'm in wholehearted agreement with Kelsey Timmerman more »
    msAnthrope: in the US, child "labor" was commonplace for all except the very wealthy, which changed with the emergence of middle-class wealth and educational oppo... more »
    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Okay. God damn it, why does everything suck? I had a lit teacher who once talked about The Iliad it terms of "moral bad luck": a condition in which a... more »
    BlowJoy: I lived in rural Paraguay for two and a half years. My three year old "sister" used to drag out the little outdoor stove, fill it with charcoal, light... more »
    sportz.star: This just serves to highlight that the problem with problems these days in a global economy is that they are all more nuanced and complex than can fit... more »
    Lazy Line Painter Jane: In 9th grade, we had to do a project about human rights and mine was about how I don't always oppose child labor, but think that they should be paid b... more »
    Mkp-hearts-NYC: I'm very appreciative that he decided to tackle this issue in a non-knee-jerk child-labor-is-bad-mmkay sort of way. What is appalling are the conditio... more »
    PrettyPrettyPrincess: It is a complicated issue. I was a hard-liner on boycotting retailers who kept getting caught sub-contracting to offshore companies who use child labo... more »
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