Where am I wearing?

I know this is a little off topic because it is not fully about toms but I want to make you all aware of a book written by Kelsey Timmerman called “Where am I wearing?”. Although the title may suggest it is a debate on people wearing clothes that were made in horrible conditions and by people who get paid next to nothing to make them , its not. It is however a book about Timmerman travelling to different countries trying to find out where an outfit of his clothes comes from, although he says himself that it was more of just an excuse to get paid to travel! Anyway he goes on to find some of the factories that make is clothes and he interviews some of the people who work in these factories. More often not he finds that the workers are happy working in these factories as it gives them a job and some pay, however little it may be. He then discovered that working in a factories and the horrible conditions present there are some of the more ‘glamorous’ (for want of a better word)  jobs in these poor countries.  If you don’t work in a factory you are left with very little options as to where you work.  More often than not the workers n the factories just wanted the more developed countries to stay  out of it. So I ask you this: is toms better to just stay out of it or is it good to ‘help’ them?