Out of poverty : sweatshops in the global economy

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Out of poverty : sweatshops in the global economy

Title remainder

sweatshops in the global economy

Statement of responsibility

Benjamin Powell, The Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University

Creator

• Powell, Benjamin, 1978-

Subject

• Anti-sweatshop movement -- History
• Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Sweatshops

Language

eng

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive defense of third-world sweatshops. It explains how these sweatshops provide the best available opportunity to workers and how they play an important role in the process of development that eventually leads to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory, the author argues that much of what the anti-sweatshop movement has agitated for would actually harm the very workers they intend to help by creating less desirable alternatives and undermining the process of development. Nowhere does this book put 'profits' or 'economic efficiency' above people. Improving the welfare of poorer citizens of third world countries is the goal, and the book explores which methods best achieve that goal. Out of Poverty will help readers understand how activists and policy makers can help third world workers.--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in economics, cognition and society

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in economics, cognition and society
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks