This book explores how 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. This book addresses a crucially important topic for those who desire to improve the welfare of impoverished people in the third world.
This book explores how 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. This book addresses a crucially important topic for those who desire to improve the welfare of impoverished people in the third world.
Benjamin Powell is the Director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and a Visiting Professor in the Rawls College of Business. He is a Past President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute. Professor Powell is editor of Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (2008) and co-editor of Housing America: Building Out of a Crisis (2009). He is author of more than 50 scholarly articles and policy studies. His primary fields of research are economic development, Austrian economics, and public choice. Dr Powell's scholarly research on sweatshops has been published in Comparative Economic Studies, the Journal of Labor Research, Human Rights Quarterly, and the Journal of Business Ethics. His research findings have been reported in more than 100 popular press outlets including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. The anti-sweatshop movement 3. The economics of sweatshop wage determination 4. Don't cry for me Kathie Lee: how sweatshop wages compare to alternatives 5. Health, safety, and working conditions laws 6. Save the children? 7. Is it ethical to buy sweatshop products? 8. A history of sweatshops, 1780¿2010 9. The process of economic development 10. What good can activists do? 11. Conclusion.
1. Introduction 2. The anti-sweatshop movement 3. The economics of sweatshop wage determination 4. Don't cry for me Kathie Lee: how sweatshop wages compare to alternatives 5. Health, safety, and working conditions laws 6. Save the children? 7. Is it ethical to buy sweatshop products? 8. A history of sweatshops, 1780¿2010 9. The process of economic development 10. What good can activists do? 11. Conclusion.
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