Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy

作者: Benjamin Powell

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关键词: WelfareThird worldPovertyDeveloping countryEconomic efficiencyDevelopment economicsInternational businessProcess (engineering)HarmEconomics

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

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