Skepticurious Interesting & unusual things I find.

Anyone sick enough to collect or trade products produced by child labor?

I was driving somewhere the other day, and I forget what chain of thoughts led me there, but I wondered, are there any people sick enough to collect or trade products that were known to be manufactured by children? I was imagining it wrapped in the guise of a historical/anthropological interest. Perhaps people could get away with collecting/trading toys made in the 1920s by European child slave labor or something. People seem to do what I'd consider similarly disgusting, like trading in pre-embargoed ivory. Fortunately my Googling led me nowhere, so either it's a unpopular past time or no past time at all (which I hope).

Along the way I did find this useful Retailer Sweatshop Scorecard that rates some of the leading retailers and whether or not they support companies known to use or support child labor. A brief summary gives the following grades to major retailers: