1. What would result from consumers choosing to stop buying sweat-shop products? Would the companies clean up their act and begin to pay higher wages and provide benefits for their employees? Would the economy be significantly affected? Would the factory workers simply be forced into further poverty, leading them to prositution or other "'entertainment'" industries, as Enloe put it?
2. In "third-world countries," where water is scarce and diseases like HIV/AIDS are extremely prominent, what actions can be done to give women more of a voice? If given the right tools, are women the ones who hold the power and knowledge to distribute water more evenly, while still considering economic needs, and allowing families easy access to clean, affordable water? What can we do to help out with this problem? Are their governments intentionally taking all power out of these women's hands in order to distribute the water to higher-income areas and make a bigger profit?
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