American Apparel clothing is all American-made and thus sweatshop free, in addition to being hip and alternative.  It also costs an arm and a leg and doesn't allow it's LA employees to join garment workers' unions.  So the question:  Is "sweatshop-free" unanimous with "humane."  In her essay "Maid to Order," Barbara Ehrenreich touches upon issues addressed in Cynthia Enloe's chapter "The Globetrotting Sneaker," when she states:  "We can try to minimize the pain that goes into feeding, clothing, and otherwise provisioning ourselves--by observing boycotts, checking for a union label, etc.--but there is no way to avoid it altogether without living in the wilderness on berries" (69).  In the case of American Apparel, we "minimize the pain," but is that enough to claim we are making a difference?  How and where do we draw the line?