Conversations about sweatshops should include the fact that oftentimes these people are forced into the city in search of jobs because their traditional rural way of life gets fucked in the ass by more developed countries coming in and destroying, poisoning and whatnot land in an effort to get at natural resources.

There are also strong arguments that while some economies were able to move through the "sweatshop phase" if you want to call it that and use industrialisation to pull up their economies, they were only able to do so by in turn fucking over more periphery countries - ie that this kind of "solution" only works if you're able to exploit even more disadvantaged countries and therefore it's not possible to use it as a way to pull everybody out of poverty, but rather just furthers the core/semi-periphery/periphery system.

If you're accusing leftists of being too negative, you're being in turn far too positive. Sexual abuse and other such fun stuff has been shown to be rampant in many sweatshops, and it's common that people are paid below a living wage - ie. that the wage isn't just low in terms of dumb "wow that's not many of my dollars, they couldn't even get a cheeseburger from my local McDonalds here in America for that!" thinking, but also it's too low for them to survive off. This leads to people working ridiculous hours to half-survive, which in turn takes employment out of the hands of other people since those hours are no longer available. inb4 you again come back with "well they're being forced to choose between sucking a big fat dick or taking it up the ass until it bleeds or dying and they choose sucking dick, so sucking dick must be alright for them".

Are all sweatshops like that and is the concept of a sweatshop inherently bad? Absolutely not, but that doesn't mean you can make a sweeping statement that all sweatshops are helping and that leftists just don't get it.