To comment on sweat shop conditions in china. sure it would be stupid to say that there are no sweat shops in china. But the people saying that companies can go over there to set up a factory and do whatever they want. people that say that are straight up ignorant to situation. in jan of 2008 i believe thousands of (maybe even more) factory bosses (mainly korean) fled china because of the increase of minimum wage and of new laws protecting labor. many factories are NOT going to turn a profit this year because of this. And the Chinese government do enforce this.
Chinese factories have their margins push down low to 2-3-4 percent because of mainly american and japanese (europeans are much more humane when it comes to this) companies that are not willing to pay more for the **** they are having manufactured in China.
And since these Chinese factories are working on razor thin margins they have to do everything to cut cost and turn a profit. bad working condition arn't justifiable. but i'm just stating that this is a reason for why some factories are in such **** condition. And if walmart would be willing to give up some of their huge profit margins maybe the factories they use would have better conditions.
so next time you think of some poor chinese boy in some nightmare factory. the reason for that has more to do with westerners being exploitive savages than chinese being backwards.

So not all factories in china are the same. All the bicycle factories that i have been in here in china are very decent.
and even a wheel set assembly factory that is in a totally dust free environment. (you can't wear your shoes in there)