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. Some part of it went to feather the beds of so-called economists and columnists who churn out hoary tales about what a cracking good deal it all is.