Benjamin Powell

Out of Poverty (eBook, ePUB)

Sweatshops in the Global Economy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 less desirable alternatives and undermining the process of development. Nowhere does this book put 'profits' or 'economic efficiency' above people. Improving the welfare of poorer citizens of third world countries is the goal, and the book explores which methods best achieve that goal. Out of Poverty will help readers understand how activists and policy makers can help third world workers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139904650
• Artikelnr.: 52844883

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Powell is a Professor of Economics at Rawls College of Business Administration and the Executive Director at the Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University and a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute He is the co-author of Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (Cambridge University Press 2020) and the Amazon best-selling Socialism Sucks: Two Economist Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World (2019). His research on sweatshops has been reported in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The anti-sweatshop movement
3. The economics of sweatshop wage determination
4. Don't cry for me Kathie Lee: how sweatshop wages compare to alternatives
5. Health, safety, and working conditions laws
6. The Rana Plaza disaster and its aftermath
7. Save the children?
8. Is it ethical to buy sweatshop products?
9. A history of sweatshops, 1780-2019
10. The process of economic development
11. What good can activists do?
12. Conclusion.