I'll make you famous (or Adidas will)

"Demand for the goods sets the price paid, supply of labour sets the wage price."

This pre-supposes that everyone is inherently greedy. I think we're socialised to be greedy. Changing our spending habits changes supply, because demand drives supply. Corps only make what they think they can sell. If no one buys unethically produced clothing, where's the incentive to make it?

Legislation is an extremely blunt tool, and a last resort in my honest opinion.

Legislation is national and not multinational. These businesses are global. One reason they are exploiting children in Asia is that legislation and trades union activity prevents them doing it here.

We need to work to provide the exploited people with an alternative to sweat shops. Microfinance and microinsurance projects are the key to this. Set people us with viable ways to make money and protect themselves economically and they can have a choice and companies will be forced to pay a proper price for labour and people will not have to send their kids to work but will be able to educate them.

Sorry, while typing this I realised that I was sounding rather patronising but your posts do mark you out as particularly ignorant and naive.