All swans are white .
Sweatshops are a phenomenon of decay, pure and simple. They spring up like mushrooms in the crevices of a putrifying social formation. Sweatshop labour is a middleman operation heavily subsidized by state repression and uncompensated expropriation of population health. Wages are low not because of productivity but because of the legions of brokers, sub-contractors, petty officials and toad swallowers that have to be maintained to stoke the furnace with cheap labour. The middlemen are not cheap.