Free trade is doing exactly what it was expected to do: raise Third World wages and income, lower the cost of goods for Western consumers, and put downward pressure on Western manufacturing wages. Complaining about manufacturing job losses in the West is all very well, but do have the honesty to look at the full picture.

And then as for the next bit, I'm not sure how you define "fair trade", but while working conditions in the developing world are indeed awful in many cases (though getting better by leaps and bounds), your demand that all products sold in the West be "held to the same standards, regardless of source" sounds to me like you're more concerned with preserving Western jobs than with economic growth for developing countries. I suppose in a thread about American unemployment that's not so odd, but then you might as well stop pretending you care about the Third World.