Showing posts with label sweatshops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweatshops. Show all posts
Benjamin Powell: Bangladesh Sweatshops Improve Lives
The reality is counterintuitive. U.S. companies are rethinking whether to continue sourcing garments from Bangladesh in the wake of the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory that killed hundreds of workers on April 25. If they do so, most Bangladeshi garment workers will be worse off than they are today. ... MORECapitalism In No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. The nineteenth century, many people believe, was an era in American history when workers were forced to toil in sweatshops twenty-eight hours a day for starvation wages. It was only when governments intervened, either directly on behalf of workers or indirectly by empowering unions, that conditions improved. ... MORE
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