Globalization and free trade automatically adopts the sweatshops of the countries that are trying to lead the consumer market shares into their country; but to me, the globalization and free trade's purpose was to exploit other country's weak spots and vulnerable places. For example, China's cheap labor cost and unregulated working conditions of the sweatshops were nice waving flags for the corporations that are looking for their outsourcing to be cheap and manipulative, so that they can make products faster, cheaper and without hassling with the rules and regulations. But, one has to understand that the sweatshops were not created by globalization and free trade, at least to my understanding. And it could have been something similar in concept, they were existed before corporations encouraged them by taking them into their end of the market and used them and gave them chance to be prolific. In my opinion, the sweatshop will never be eliminated from the face of the earth as long as there are people who are poor enough that they would rather work grueling long hours to get few cheated money than die from starvation and famine.
As for my spending habit associated with sweatshops around the world, i think from now on i would rather sleep on the idea of purchasing consumer products before i buy them. I realized that it is almost impossible for me to change my habit of buying goods that are not made by sweatshops because almost all goods that i owned and would likely to own are being made by sweatshops around the world.
Also, i have found out that some workers in those sweatshops actually use the sweatshop to get ahead, they don't feel like their lives are any worse than it could have been by working in the sweatshop, thus i believe me buying goods from their factory made company outlet is actually deed that is promoting the well being of those sweatshop workers.
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