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The question of who bears responsibility for unsafe working conditions in factories that produce goods for sale outside national boundaries, closely parallels similar questions that have been raised over the years relating to apartheid, maquiladoras, slave labor, factory pollution, product safety and quality standards, and in general, anything that is produced under one set of conditions (laws, enforcement systems, cultural practices) and consumed under a different set. The two heroic assumptions being made here are that consumers, and the policies of consuming nations, (1) can credibly in...