Worse treatment or higher prices?

In 2006 Business Week released a cover story revealing the labor law problems still present in China. The article was titled “Secrets, Lies, and Sweat Shops” and told about the procedures used to keep the children in factories with excessive labor combined with low pay. Even though there were laws put in place to prevent all of these factors from appearing, there were people whose job was to inform factories of how to bypass the audits which were put in place to ensure the laws were followed. Some of the techniques that allowed the audits to be passed were to let the people against the policies have the day off, make all of the underage workers leave the premises, and to have back of labor and wage documents in order to have “proper” documents. If there was a surprise audit, the employees were to evacuate all under-age workers through back doors and have them clear the building, while the workers left inside were rehearsed to answer questions with specific answers, and the document books were swapped. It is very sad to me that we are here in America with strict labor laws and minimum wage, while little kids in China are slaving over hot machines to make things for little money with extreme hours just so that we can pay less for things.