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Out of Poverty

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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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  • Powell,Benjamin, 2014. "Out of Poverty," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107029903, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:cbooks:9781107029903
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    1. Huseyin S. Kuyumcuoglu, 2021. "Sweatshops, Harm, and Interference: A Contractualist Approach," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 169(1), pages 1-11, February.
    2. Rashid, Md Sanuwar & Byun, Sang-Eun, 2018. "Are consumers willing to go the extra mile for fair trade products made in a developing country? A comparison with made in USA products at different prices," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 201-210.
    3. Rouge Jean-François, 2016. "Sweet Sweatshops - A Reflexion about the Impact of Sweatshops on Countries’ Competitiveness," Economics, Sciendo, vol. 4(1), pages 7-36, June.
    4. Anthony J. Evans & Vlad Tarko, 2014. "Contemporary Work in Austrian Economics," Journal of Private Enterprise, The Association of Private Enterprise Education, vol. 29(Fall 2014), pages 135-157.
    5. Michael S. Aßländer, 2021. "Sweated Labor as a Social Phenomenon Lessons from the 19th Century Sweatshop Discussion," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 170(2), pages 313-328, May.
    6. Alejandro Donado, 2021. "Why do they JUST DO IT? A Theory of Outsourcing and Working Conditions," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 32(3), pages 559-586, July.
    7. Virgil Henry Storr, 2019. "Ludwig Lachmann’s peculiar status within Austrian economics," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 32(1), pages 63-75, March.
    8. Leonid A. Krasnozhon & David Simpson & Walter E. Block, 2015. "Fair Trade: Its Real Impact On The Working Poor," Review of Social and Economic Issues, Romanian-American University, vol. 1(2), pages 5-28, march.
    9. Benjamin Powell, 2018. "Sweatshop Regulation: Tradeoffs and Welfare Judgements," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 151(1), pages 29-36, August.
    10. Scott Hipsher, 2017. "Poverty Reduction, Wealth Creation, and Tourism in Ethnic Minority Communities in Mainland Southeast Asia," International Journal of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (IJSECSR), IGI Global, vol. 2(1), pages 39-53, January.
    11. Ryo Makioka, 2021. "The impact of anti‐sweatshop activism on employment," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(2), pages 630-653, May.
    12. Joshua Preiss, 2019. "Freedom, Autonomy, and Harm in Global Supply Chains," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 160(4), pages 881-891, December.
    13. Lilac Nachum, 2021. "Value distribution and markets for social justice in global value chains: Interdependence relationships and government policy," Journal of International Business Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 4(4), pages 541-563, December.
    14. András Miklós, 2019. "Exploiting Injustice in Mutually Beneficial Market Exchange: The Case of Sweatshop Labor," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 156(1), pages 59-69, April.

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