"sweatshop labor permitted my parents' generation to pull themselves out of poverty, get educated, and get white collar jobs " That may have been possible in t

"sweatshop labor permitted my parents' generation to pull themselves out of poverty, get educated, and get white collar jobs " That may have been possible in the 1960s, but it's certainly not going to happen for 99% of these workers now. There is way more menial, blue-collar labour to be done than white-collar work, and there are less jobs than there are people already.