Tag: Premature De-Industrialization

One Person’s Exploitation is Another Person’s Blessing

Oct 18, 2013

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by

mwkruse

in Business, Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Globalization, Poverty, Public Policy

Writing in his recent post The Alleged "Perils" of "Premature De-Industrialisation." Economist Gavin Kennedy writes: "… I also recall more recently of a Vietnamese woman on being questioned by a Western journalist about her 14-hour working day that she worked six days a week in a new computer-board manufacturing plant near her home village. The…