Sweatshops

Yes, I am the Eric mentioned in this post. I first picked the news about the Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed up from Cafe Hayek (where orders emerge). I have three main things I'd like to say about it, but not before pointing out that this is a topic about which Kathleen is passionate, exceptionally well-informed (and experienced), and surprisingly not very PC (at least, not in a conventionally PC way). Surprising to PC people, that is, not surprising to me any longer.

The four points I'd like to address will take a while to get through, but here's an outline:

• What is a sweatshop, anyhow?
• Rothstein raises some interesting points, but his main argument is seriously flawed
• Despite this flaw, he and Kathleen raise an interesting angle to the subject of worker education
• I have a potential solution to the problem

Next time: what is a sweatshop?

Meanwhile, this Haitian website picked up on Kathleen's post.