, from unan into burma, from burma into thailand, and from thailand they were now going into malaysia. we couldn't figure out exactly what they were doing. they told us they had been promised jobs in electronics factories. the chances of them working at jobs in an electronic factory are low, and the chances of them ever getting paid for any kind of work they do are very low. so these are the stories that, in our view, from our offices around the world, are multiplying, as the economic price it takes on workers everywhere, as more workers are dropped out of formal legal structures, as more employers seek to avoid labor loss of clients by resorting to semilegal and illegal labor markets. we have a pretty word for them. we call them flexible labor markets. but in fact, they are labor markets where wages are not paid according to standards, children are allowed to work, our restrictions are not maintained, and labor is cheap, because it's illegal. and to us as a labor, as labor lawyers, as worker rights advocates, this poses a huge rule of law question, because the employers that want to