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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    January 2025
    January 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009505321
    9781009505352
    9781009505369
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009505321
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.51kg, 238 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.356kg, 238 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Economics, Economics: General Interest, Politics: General Interest, Labour Economics, International Business, Management
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Economics: General Interest, Politics: General Interest, Labour Economics, International Business, Management
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
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    Out of Poverty provides a comprehensive defence of Third World sweatshops that does not put economic efficiency over people, but instead explores methods of improving the welfare of those in Third World countries. The author explains how sweatshops provide the best opportunity for workers; and how they play an important role in development, leading to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory, empirical evidence, and historical investigation, Powell argues that the anti-sweatshop movement would harm the very workers it intends to help by creating less-desirable alternatives and undermining development. Including a new chapter on the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, this revised and expanded second edition also explores how sweatshop wages have changed and how poverty alleviation has progressed in countries with sweatshops in the late 1990s and early 2000s and how boycotting Uyghur forced labor in China differs other sweatshop boycotts.

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