sweatshops in the global economy Powell, Benjamin Primary Author mixed material bibliography New York Cambridge University 2014 en English

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xvi, 181 p. : Illust. ; 23 cm 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. Economic Development Economic History Developing Countries Sweatshops Anti-sweatshop Movement Economic Development--Moral and Ethical Aspects 331.256 9781107688933 e-Library Universitas Pertamina Be Global Leader 331.256 POW o 1916/PUP/2016 Perpustakaan Universitas Pertamina 331.256 POW o c.1 Out_of_Poverty%252C_sweatshops_in_the_global_economy.jpg.jpg 875 2017-05-26 11:55:21 2017-05-26 11:55:54 machine generated Economics Communication Science International Relations