Where Am I Wearing Summary

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Before reading Where Am I Wearing I had never really thought deeply about child labor in developing countries. My previous opinion was that child labor was a very evil part of the world we lived in. I imagined that children were forced to work against their will and that they were treated like slaves. I was surprised to learn that children in countries like Bangladesh actually wanted to work to help support their families. If they were not able to work it significantly affected the way their family lived. It was an even bigger surprise to me to learn that these developing countries were strictly against fair labor laws. These laws raise unemployment in developing countries and drive up prices of goods bought in the country. So, with

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