Sweatshop Sublime Citations

Robbins quotes Raymond Williams in his Culture and Society; The quote specifically talks about the "pulling the wrong thread" out of the metaphor for society as a "tangled web." When trying to untangle this web you can't tell which thread to pull because each has a different result that creates a different outcome. This specifically interests me because I have always been interested in the past and the future and how each decision you make creates a different future. I always find it interesting to examine what could have been done. 

Robbins quotes Barbara Ehrenreich and her view on menial labor. Ehrenreich talks about how "everything we buy is a product of some other person's suffering." This interests me because she states that there is "no way to avoid it all together unless you live in the wilderness on berries." Throughout my childhood, my parents taught me to buy things made in the U.S. I'm not sure what the reason for this was, bug I guess that from Ehrenreich's point of view this did nothing. Ehrenreich's essay is one that we have already read, "Maid to Order." The main argument in this essay is to depict how maids are primarily women and of a minority group. 

Robbins quotes Fredric Jameson  and his opinions on products produced by sweatshops. He states that people are in a sense freed from the guilt induced by knowing how their toys and furnishings if they don't remember how they were created. This interests me because today it has become a habit to not even check where your clothing came from. If this ignorant habit were not in existence, would something have been done about this sweatshop labor by now?