Tag: Sweatshops
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One Person’s Exploitation is Another Person’s Blessing
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…
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A Case Study in Opportunity Costs for Sweatshop Workers
The following is the conclusion from a forthcoming paper to be published in the Journal of Economics and Sociology titled, Sweatshops, Opportunity Costs, and Non-Monetary Compensation: Evidence from El Salvador (HT: Modled Behavior) Conclusion Few people in developed countries would enjoy working in a third-world “sweatshop” factory, as the pay and working conditions are generally…
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Help the World’s Poor: Buy Some New Clothes
Aid Watch: Help the World’s Poor: Buy Some New Clothes This is a guest post written by Benjamin Powell, an assistant professor of Economics at Suffolk University and a Senior Economist with the Beacon Hill Institute. He is the editor of Making Poor Nations Rich, and is currently writing a book entitled No Sweat: How Sweatshops…
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The Suprising Impact of China’s “Sweatshops”
Oregon Live: Chinese factory workers cash in sweat for prosperity WUHU, China — Years after activists accused Nike and other Western brands of running Third World sweatshops, the issue has taken a surprising turn. The path of discovery winds from coastal factory floors far into China's interior, past women knee-deep in streams pounding laundry. It…
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Where Sweatshops Are a Dream
New York Times: Where Sweatshops Are a Dream by Nicholas Kristof Before Barack Obama and his team act on their talk about “labor standards,” I’d like to offer them a tour of the vast garbage dump here in Phnom Penh. This is a Dante-like vision of hell. It’s a mountain of festering refuse, a half-hour…
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Sweatshops, Sweatshops Everywhere
Dani Rodrik's Weblog: Sweatshops, Sweatshops Everywhere Rodrik is reacting to an article in the New York Times about Con Edison discovering their manhole covers are being made in a sweatshop in India. An embarrassed Con Edison says that it is now rewriting its international contracts to include safety requirements. Fine, but what if these requirements…