Fair trade business casual

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Well, the term "slave" labour really should only be used when the person was purchased as a commodity. Or not slave labour, but indentured labour, where the person was innocently bribed by a snakehead/middle man by paying thousands of dollars to come....to Canada or U.S. and they are smuggled in (let's think reverse, ok? stuff happens on the North American continent).

Vs. sweatshop which might be a more accurate term ... very low wages, unsafe/poor working conditions, no benefits, no breaks, non-compliance with health and safety, locked factory doors (which is a fire hazard) that imprison the workers, etc

Ok, I think some of my relatives did work in sweat shop conditions. Not for long. In Toronto. (I have been into homes in the heart of Chinatown. It's tougher than you can imagine.)

I have also personally known 2 bilingual Chinese-Canadian social workers involved directly in mobilizing some of the garment workers in Toronto to form their union. This was 20 yrs. ago.

It would be nice for me...to boycott products but at the same time, but I have family memory of the hurdles and needs for non-English speaking relatives, to earn money to survive during their first few years of immigrating to Canada.

It might better to volunteer time/donate money for the non-profit social service agencies that serve these people, rather ...than just boycott.