Students for sweatshops!

• Author: Kristof, Nicholas D.

Well-meaning American university students regularly campaign against sweatshops. But instead, anyone who cares about fighting poverty should campaign in favor of them, demanding that companies set up factories in Africa. Sure, sweatshop work is tedious, grueling, and sometimes dangerous. But over all, sewing clothes is considerably less dangerous or arduous--or sweaty--than most alternatives in poor countries. To get more companies to set up factories in...