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He has become something of a hero in Italian luxury circles for chiding companies that ship production abroad or open sweatshops at home.

Bootleg copies of the "Dark Knight" and Shenzen sweatshops churning out fake Louis Vuitton bags are only part of the problem.

Even Guangdong's shoe industry, whose ranks have sheltered many unscrupulous sweatshops, finally appears to be climbing up the value chain.

Yet sweatshops are only a symptom of poverty, not a cause, and banning them closes off one route out of poverty.

You've seen the documentaries of sweatshops making garments all over the world, even in developed countries.

She had asked to be shown some factories and we had just been around some of the shocking sweatshops.

A large number of the frail black-clad figures on the ships were tailors destined for the sweatshops so numerous in Victorian Sydney.

"So-called sweatshops, " she writes, "are most definitely to be welcomed and encouraged. "

Without people like him, Nike and Gap might never have been forced to address the terrible working conditions in sweatshops.

Sounds very fair. The sweatshops could learn a thing or two.

The old stereotypes about low-wage sweatshops are as out-of-date as Mao suits.

Reports abound of sweatshops, workers' protests and this year even of officials condoning the luring of children into slavery.

Workers want higher wages; new labour laws are designed to wipe out sweatshops that bring higher costs which squeeze many companies.

Three years ago Apple was involved in a Nike style Asian sweatshops scandal over its relationship with Foxconn.

In Shanghai he organised medical aid for hundreds of apprentices who worked without pay in industrial sweatshops.

The problem was most acute in textile mills and garment sweatshops where large numbers of women and children were employed.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and ploughed the hard earth.

Labour inspectors in Lusaka, who monitor sweatshops, have use of only one car and recently it was broken for four months.

My fortune cookie says " Someday you'll be making cheap garbage in sweatshops for 80 cents a day to sale at Chinese Wal-Marts. "

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West, endured the lash of whip and plowed the hard earth.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the west, endure the lash of whip and plowed the hard earth.

But global campaigns against sweatshops make that less likely.

The logical next step, of course, was "virtual sweatshops" .

Many are sweatshops with poor working conditions.

A new report says some Christmas ornaments sold in the United States were made in Chinese sweatshops .

And herein possibly lies the answer for British companies and others who are serious about eliminating sweatshops from their supply chain.

Would it be a shuttle for Chinese seamstresses heading off to work in Italian sweatshops?

Before she came to Beijing, Nadine Lewman says, her impression of China was of " sweatshops and smog. "

we cannot have 9 - year - olds working in sweatshops making acme sneakers . .

That is what the Chinese government hopes, as Beijing seeks to move the nation's industry away from sweatshops and up the value chain.

When I defend sweatshops, people always ask me: But would you want to work in a sweatshop?

Illegal aliens are often put to work in sweatshops.

But the sweatshops are real and so is the money.

Look, I know that Americans have a hard time accepting that sweatshops can help people.

i have a bunch of sweatshops in the philippines