Brad Plumer's in excellent form today with a nice blast against the occasional neoliberal clucking that if leftists really cared about the poor, they'd embrace the most brutal, unsafe, low-paying sweatshops they could find. As he notes, the actual correlation between labor standards, production prices, and foreign investment is far weaker than one might expect. Not all sweatshops are bad, to be sure, but by the same token, not all are good.
