A Defense Of Sweatshops

Writing a new book from Benjamin Powell, no sweat: how can sweatshops improve life and economic growth:

When workers volunteered to find a job they believe that they believe that work is unsafe and wages are lower than wages in the US but work is the best option they can get . That's why Paul Krugman and Walter Williams different political economists are defending the sweep.

Sweatshop goes far beyond most of his own work. David Skarbek and I have studied the sweat shop recorded in the US news media (or see here for defense of my short and common sweatshops). We discovered that workers at exploitation factories earlier than or equal to the average income of nine out of the eleven countries we studied earn. The cost of working at the sweatshop is over twice the national average of the four countries.

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The defense of the sweat shop provided by the mainstream economist has turned into two elegant, simple and ideologically powerful propositions. One is that workers can choose to take these jobs freely, and the second is that these specialty shops work better than other jobs available in developing countries. These two propositions have certain reasons for them. Of course, in some cases workers can not sweat freely for employment, even in accordance with normal employment labor standards. Sometimes workers are caught. For example, in 1995, the police raided one of the seven apartments in Elmont, California, where 72 illegal Thai immigrants were imprisoned for sewing brand clothes. Name tag (Su 1997, 143)

The second point to protect merchants is a bad idea to prohibit it, even though you think that merchant labor is unfair. Please think like this. Because they are very poor and less selective, people choose only sweaters. However, even if you sweat, poverty will not be eliminated, your choice will not be improved. In fact, it will further reduce them and only deprive workers of the best choices they think. Of course, most anti-perspiration activists will not attempt to close the factory, but sometimes goodwill may lead to unintended consequences. Layoffs faced by Masango's friends are clear evidence. My friend thought that it was best for her factory owner not to do business in lieu of paying the statutory minimum wage, so friends were dismissed. It is illegal to let factories pay low wages, but it is illegal to completely close and pay wages.