There is a Catch 22 situation here - if you don't buy shirts that were originally produced in a sweat shop where people are treated like sub-humans, than that sweat shop will go out of business, and the people there will starve - even worsening their condition...   You right to a degree but only because in the case of the Bangladeshi government, no laws are in place to effectively protect workers. Employers have carte blanch to pay up to two months in arrears, so if people complain, they can't leave because they will lose the money owed to them. It's a hugely corrupt country and they have the audacity to call it a Parliamentary democracy...   There are may Catch 22 situations out there.  Here in America, people constantly complain about the Mexican population sneaking into the States, taking jobs, etc.  These people want to work!  I've suggested for a long time now that if we don't want the Mexican people doing this, we should find some way to repair their own infrastructure - their own economy.   I think right now the US has enough of its own problems to sort out! Bangladesh receives about £2BILLION in annual donations - where does it all go? Once again there's no paper trail or accountability.   Another Catch 22 situation - as the economies in the Third World Improve, there may be less money in the richer countries as the economic imbalance levels out.   That may be so but it will take a long time just simply because of the differences in population figures. China and India would be examples...