Re: a fourteen-year-old

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Russotto) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Geeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Mexico, China, Asia. Latin America...
> >Throw a dart at a map of South America.  If it lands on a poverty
> >stricken area, chances are Rubbermaid, Nike, GE and hundreds of other
> >corporations have sweat shop/slave/child labor factories there.
> >To be fair, GE prefers Mexico, poor Asian areas and China.
>  
> >What's the real difference between a Malasian "sweat shop" and
> >"slave labor?"
> 
> Well, you can have a "sweat shop" with long hours and low pay without
> any actually slavery.  You can have child labor without any slavery.
> 
> >Can you say with 100% certainty, taking bribery\corruption into
> >considrration,that there is NO child labor in Malasia?
> 
> I can't be sure there isn't slave labor in Philadelphia.  In fact, I'd
> bet there is (where the slaves are illegal immigrants).

I just remembered something:
Here in NY a couple (few?) years ago a ship from China ran aground
and a bunch of illegal immigrants scrambled out and were rounded up
on shore.
It turned out that they were "indentured" (read, "slave")
laborers being imported by the Chinatown Triad/Mafia/Whatever.
The pretty young girls (and maybe some of the boys...)were to
be used in the prostitution rackets.
The rest were going to sweat shops with sealed, painted-over
windows where they would live and work 24/7.
Such "workers" sleep on mats on the floor, or in closet-sized
rooms stacked up on plywood bunk bed cubicles.

Yeah, you're right.
Wherever you have scared, penniless illegal immigrants,
you usually have exploitation or slavery.