This Chicago Sun-Times article reports that companies like Chanel and Gucci are trying to discourage consumers from buying counterfeit products (which are illegal) and “knock offs” (which may not be illegal) by linking their production to child labor and sweatshop labor. My question, cynic that I am, is whether all of the members of the “International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition” will guarantee (and prove, if asked) that their “authentic” consumer goods are not made with child or sweatshop labor.
–Ann Bartow
