And more affluent women do have a history of effective sweated labor boycotts in the past: in the Victorian era, impoverished women were going blind in the `needle trades', turning out elaborate embroideries for wealthy women, until revulsion on the part of these consumers forced conditions to better. By contrast, today, there is no major movement led by developed-world women to stop this global exploitation by cut-rate manufacturers – even though our money is the one tool powerful enough to force manufacturers to change their ways.
但正如我们不愿正视所有家庭问题那样，西方女性也选择对这一事实视而不见。事实上，美国人曾经对来自血汗工厂的大学T恤衫予以声讨，迫使生产商采用更为公平的生产方式，而主要由女性消费者主导的针对咖啡制品的声讨，则促成了各大超市的“公平贸易”采购行为。而更加富裕的女性也有着声讨血汗工厂的光荣历史：在维多利亚时代，贫苦妇女为了一种给富裕妇女绣花的“针头贸易”而逐渐致盲，直到一部分消费者对此表示了反感才迫使贫困妇女的工作状况得到了改善。反过来，当今并没有一些由发达国家妇女所领导的大型运动来制止由微利生产商所做的剥削行为——即便我们手里的金钱就是迫使这类生产商改变行为模式的最佳利器。