How Can Sweatshops Help The Poor Escape Poverty? - Learn Liberty
Sweatshops should all be shut down because of the terrible working conditions and unfair treatment of workers, right? But what about the people who choose to work in these conditions? Learn more: http://bit.ly/1HVAtKP. If we look at sweatshops from the perspective of the world's poor, we may find that we should not be trying to close their doors after all. Professor Matt Zwolinski explains three reasons sweatshops may actually be worth keeping: sweatshop jobs may be better than the alternatives, closing sweatshops just reduces job options for the poor, and it is better to do something to end global poverty than to do nothing. From the perspective of the world's poor, which looks better: an American company that outsources to sweatshops and provides jobs in developing countries, or an American company that hires only U.S. workers?
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-Check out the New York Times article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/world/africa/27safrica.html?_r=3&scp=1&am
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-Minimum Wage Debate: How Sweatshops Are Actually Good for the Poor:
http://www.policymic.com/artic....les/9459/minimum-wag
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