...[I]s the idea that a young person might legitimately be employed in a safe environment outside school hours really so off-the-wall? It seems that when it comes to protecting workers' rights and ethical trade, many of us have developed a number of black and white assumptions about what's good for other people...[A]re they actually driving retailers to adopt practices that do workers more harm than good?...The International Labour Organisation...would beg to differ, drawing a clear distinction between child labour and child work...Yet the fear of being associated with child labour has pushed some retailers to adopt zero tolerance policies towards any form of work for children...[T]here is a risk that consumer boycotts may result in companies decreasing the orders they place with their suppliers. In turn, those suppliers may be forced to lay off workers, who may have no other opportunities for work...The danger is that if brands shun suppliers with less than perfect conditions, but who are willing to learn, the opportunity will be lost to help them improve workers' conditions over time...[B]uying from poor countries is not inherently exploitative. [also refers to Nike, Gap]