In a libertarian society, is it expected that unions would prevent sweatshops and other unsavory work conditions?
According to my Encyclopedia, “By the 1930s sweatshops had been severely restricted in the garment and other industries through federal and state legislation, especially minimum-wage and child-labor laws.” So here in the US it took gov’t action to end sweatshops.
Do libertarians believe that if the gov’t hadn’t passed laws to diminish sweatshops, eventually unions would have grown powerful enough to improve working conditions? Or is it believed some other market force would prevent sweatshops, eventually?