‘Sell yourself for a slave-wage or starve.’ This is how the sweatshop debate is pitched to you—as an absurd false choice made to seem like common sense. Econ models, ethics panels, and policy briefs all begin from this binary, as if nothing came before it. Centuries of enclosures, debt peonage, and bans on ‘self-sufficiency’ forcing … Continue reading The Lie of Sweatshops