Unfortunately, places with better production methods are probably richer countries, so they need the work less.
It'd difficult to apply such precise pressure as a consumer to get products from poor countries, but paying a surplus and ensuring better conditions.
Also, in a poor country where we may typically see lower wages, a very high paying job can have unintended consequences.
There's a recent thread on that here:
http://philosophicalvegan.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3314
Labeling requirements might be counterproductive if we can not first find ways to avoid the unintended consequences inflated prices can have on the market.VGnizm wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 12:55 pm Provided there is a labeling that can quantify and qualify the human resource ingredient then this would prompt producers to improve worker conditions in return for customers and even if at a higher price. Something like the ‘FairTrade’ label ( https://www.fairtrade.net/ ) is doing for food resources.
See this article on fair trade coffee:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wydick/10-reasons-fair-trade-coffee-doesnt-work_b_5651663.html
Probably not, because poverty is complex and stems from a lot of things that these programs don't and perhaps can't address. Simply buying sweatshop goods at fair market value may be the only reliable means we have.
What is recommended is to, instead of buying cheap low quality products, buy higher products that require more work.
Instead of something that takes a sweat shop worker an hour to make, buy something that takes him or her all day to make; the effect is to create more highly skilled work for them including more work... perhaps also in training and an incentive for the company to treat the worker better just to retain them rather than having high turnover.
Cutting out animal products is easy, because it's just a boycott and dissolution of an industry. But we can't dissolve the industry of human labor since we can't just stop making more humans. We need better jobs, but attempts to do that through processes like "fair trade" have so far failed because they don't take into account the economic complexity of the market and the incentives it creates that may even harm the people it aims to help.