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thank you for posting this. we had a speaker who came to our economics class yesterday. she worked for an agency which inspected "sweatshops" in indonesia, india and other countries. workers typically worked 12 to 13 hours a day in horrible conditions, and made about 70 dollars a month, with no health benefits, workers unions, etc. she said about 95% of clothes where produced in sweatshops. her company also broke down the cost of a typical sweatshirt which retailed for 40 dollars, and found about 18 cents of that actually went to the maker of the clothing, 40 cents to the company, 5 to the store, and 4 to the wholesaler. the rest was in the fabric, shipping, etc
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