JFL: Agree its about corporations, but who am I (or you) to deny someone in another country a job just because they are prepared to work for less?

Thats why I emphasized environmental & safety standards, and taxes as the levellers - in addition to organized labour (which unfortunately will have to start again from the bottom, wherever that is).

Its a fact of life that not everyone on the planet can live like the western average - there are not enough resources, so IMO a 'race to bottom' is the inevitable consequence of globalisation, and about the best we can hope for is to regulate the exploitaion.