It is true, jobs are created, but wages are so low that no-one could live off one salary. But people are so desperate that they are willing to be exploited for a couple of bucks a day. The products are then exported with tremendous mark ups along the way, to be sold in fancy shops in Phoenix and other far away places. Whilst the mother and older children are at the sweat shop, the youngest children are at home on their own. The traditional family values and important indigenous maternal roles are missing and the family quickly disintegrates.
More children end up on the street.
In Guatemala, if workers try to organise themselves into a union then they may well be murdered. Hundreds of union members and organisers have been killed for trying to seek higher wages and other benefits we take for granted. More and more these days informed consumers in the west are stipulating minimum rules of engagement for companies that work in emerging markets. They are no willing to allow companies to exploit the poor to save a few pennies. Voting with their purchasing power, consumers are demanding corporate accountability.