PRO-SWEATSHOP LABOR
- economic theory of comparative advantage which states that international trade will, in the long run, make some parties better off.
- Developing countries improve their condition by doing something that they do "better" than industrialized nations
- Benefits developed countries because workers can shift to jobs that they do better
- Although wages and working conditions may appear inferior by the standards of developed nations, they are actually improvements over what the people in developing countries had before
- If the factory jobs did not improve the workers' standard of living, those workers would not have taken the jobs when they appeared
- Sweatshops are not replacing high-paying jobs but rather offering an improvement over subsistence farming and other back-breaking tasks, or even prostitution, trash picking, or starvation by unemployment
- Critics of sweatshops compare wages paid in one country to prices set in another
- The $0.15 that a Honduran worker earned for the long-sleeved t-shirt was equal in purchasing power to $3.00 in the United States
- Offer substantially higher wages and better working conditions compared to their previous jobs of manual labor
- Sweatshops are an early step in the process of technological and economic development whereby a poor country turns itself into a rich country
ANTI-SWEATSHOP LABOR
- harmful materials
- pollution
- birth defects
- difficult and dangerous conditions
- few rights or ways to address their situation
- hazardous situations
- extreme temperatures
- abuse from employers
- long hours for little pay
- no overtime pay or minimum wage
- violated child labor laws
all information found at wikipedia.org
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