[quote=The Nexerus]
What, like the United Kingdom, United States and every other western country?Industrialization brings about poor conditions for workers compared to the conditions we're experiencing now, but it's an increase from the kind of lifestyle you're living as a subsistence farmer. Working conditions and pay gradually increase. That's what happened in the West, and that's what's already happening in countries like Taiwan. By boycotting sweat shop labour we're preventing the countries reliant on it from phasing out of it.
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((agreeing)) [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Asian_Tigers]reference[/url] (no, I didn't just google it, I took three years of asian economics in college, but you can't exactly hotlink that, so settle).

Generally -- people want better jobs than a factory line. But those jobs don't exist until the economy has developed, and development can't skip steps efficiently. Nobody's lining up to import a Zimbabwe Life Insurance Plan. When you interfere with the natural growth process (like if you applied US labor-union policies to Pakistani textile factories), the immediate result is you just ruin everything, and the long-term is that savvy, rational people do business elsewhere due directly to your policies -- which forever stifles that nation's economic growth.

(edit: clarifying)