No Sweat (No, really)
You can tell that the anti-sweatshop movement is making an impact when the Liberal Democrats try to jump on the bandwagon. Though not generally known for their advocacy of workers’ rights, the Lib Dems have been plucking the consciences of residents in Haringey, North London, with a harrowing account of how their household rubbish goes to China to be processed by workers without rights, not allowed to form trade unions and in a country where rates of work-related deaths and injuries are utterly appalling even by Western standards. There’s just one little problem with this: not one word of it...