Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy

by Benjamin Powell

Book Overview

This book provides a comprehensive defense of third-world sweatshops. It explains how these 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. Using economic theory, the author argues that much of what the anti-sweatshop movement has agitated for would actually harm the very workers they intend to help by creating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107688930
• ISBN13: 9781107688933
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"