Child labor and unchecked pollution are not a bug of globalization.

[Hello_Kitty]

They are a feature of it.

For anyone who hasn't read it yet: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/12/business-worried-child-labor/

[juno jones]

1. Great article.

There was a thread on here last night featuring the blathering of conservative economists telling americans once again, that our wages must fall in order to compete with the rest of the world-a world full of child laborers and exploited people who live in dormitories and have no recourse if they are injured by their job or polluted by the factory effluvium.



from this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6988486

This is the labor that built the fortunes that now oppress us. It seems that our masters have no qualms about sending us back a century where women and children had no rights and no one to protect them from naked capitalism.

You are right, it's not a glitch, it IS the system.