In fact, Hong Kong has achieved its success as the world's ninth largest trading partner through mechanized production and making high-value products, not through sweatshops.
If you chose to donate clothing, toys, or books, make sure these items are Fair Trade certified and haven't been produced through sweatshops or child labor.
Instead, as it expresses through its Sweatshops and Plantations campaign, it is working to improve company practices and rights and conditions for the millions who work in "export processing zones".
Sisters Grimm's version, starring Ash Flanders and directed by Declan Greene, twists the classical story and drags it through the sweatshops of Mumbai, and past the wastepaper basket of the Australian federal minister for the arts.
From banning satirical game Phone Story in September 2011 through nixing Sweatshop HD and Endgame:Syria in 2013, Apple has consistently indicated that it doesn't see so-called "serious" games as suitable satirical tools – a disappointing policy.
Another thing that's easy to overlook (or dismiss) is that virtually every society in history that evolved from a rural economy to an industrial economy went through its "sweatshop" period.
She became vice president of the Brooklyn chapter of the National Consumers League, whose aims were the elimination of child labour and tenement sweatshops through public education and enlightened state legislation, and she served as assistant secretary of the New York Social Reform Club.
And this was a world that controlled its poor through debtors' prisons, workhouses (sweatshops for the destitute) and harsh sentences, from flogging to prison to exile to death, for stealing even life's basic necessities.
At the same time I was writing the novel, I'd been introduced to the world of sweatshops in London through a friend who was Turkish.
What they won't see are disfigured workers toiling in Dickensian sweatshops, infants crawling through metal stamping machines, and workers chained to their stations until the millionth widget is shipped or they die of exhaustion.
That was just about the same time that Ramon Jimenez, whose Puerto Rican parents helped him through Harvard Law School with sweatshop wages, left a Midtown law firm to open an office on East 149th Street off the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
