Slave Labor in the Global Economy

Thanks to Wikileaks we now know that the U.S. State Department intervened on behalf of the Hanes and Levi Strauss companies to keep the Haitian minimum wage at $0.31 per hour. One wonders why it takes Wikileaks for this "highly sensitive" information to be made public.

Sarcasm
After the next hurricane or earthquake in Haiti, we can all wring our hands and lament the dreadful living conditions there. Talking heads can analyse the reasons and lay most of the blame on a corrupt Haitian political system. We can even pack up some Levi jeans and Hanes underwear to send as relief to the beleaquered people, and feel better about ourselves as we head for the mall where there is a clothing sale.

Reality
Of course most of our clothes are made is sweat shops somewhere in the world. If not Haiti, then Bangladesh, Vietnam, China, Honduras....or wherever. Possibly conditions in some countries are relatively better than in others, but U.S. consumers who might like to have this information do not, or at least not conveniently. There is always Google.

There Oughta Be a Law
I presume, but don't know, that there are laws preventing U.S. companies from directly operating slave-labor sweat shops abroad. There ought to be laws preventing companies doing business in the U.S. from profiting even indirectly from slave labor.