The sweatshop is a primordial beast where consistency is not really the issue. We are after the internal consistency of Asian women's stories not the consistency of a bunch of accountant auditors. And it is an internal consistency to be worked out in dialogue and in acts of rhizomatic and situated reliability, not in abstractions by auditors and monitors. The technology of the research becomes more important than issues of validity as well as objectivity. There is a kind of ethnocentrism in assuming that the packets will be interpretable by the workers.
Every researcher brings their biases into the research setting.
Every interview and observation is a disturbance of the field of study. It is through reflexivity that the qualitative inquirer controls for bias. In addition, trust is required for inquirers to communicate with workers. And there is a significant concern about objectivity when research is conducted on the company ground. Bias in positivistic epistemology is the elimination of both passion and subjectivity.