>>Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote:
>>
>>>there are organzied boycotts
>>>of many of the companies I choose not to buy from. Nike is perhaps the most
>>>recognized
>>
>>Student anti-sweatshop activists, taking their cue from the
>>workers, are opposed to boycotts against the likes of Nike. They
>>want the workers to be well paid and decently treated and free to
>>organize, not disemployed.
>>
>>Doug
>
>But clearly the message is not getting through...
To whom? Certainly not to economists, like those of the Academic Consortium on International Trade <http://www.spp.umich.edu/rsie/acit/>, whose signatories think they do. For more on ACIT, see the forthcoming story in the March Lingua Franca by Henwood and Featherstone.
Doug