Outsourcing experts say that a growing number of mom-and-pop companies are turning to places like Sri Lanka, China, Mexico and Eastern Europe to make clothes, jewelry, trinkets and even software programs. The Internet has made it possible for even the smallest entrepreneurs to find workers tens of thousands of miles away in countries they will never visit and in factories they will never inspect. Problems for small-business outsourcing include nagging worries about workmanship and anxiety among some entrepreneurs that the factory they engaged may be a brutal sweatshop.
See "Outsourced All the Way", Matt Richtel, The New York Times, June 20, 2005