Out of Poverty Sweatshops in the Global Economy Powell Hardback 9781107029903

Out of Poverty\n\nSweatshops in the Global Economy\n\nThis book explores how sweatshops provide the best opportunity to workers and the role they play in the process of development.\n\nBenjamin Powell (Author)\n\n9781107029903, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 17 March 2014\n\n198 pages\n22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.46 kg\n\n'The term 'sweatshops' is a dirty word to students on American campuses and activists around the world, implying exploited workers toiling in horrible conditions for long hours at low pay. Powell's splendid new book gives us another perspective: how workers view sweatshops as an opportunity for improving their economic condition. Indeed, countless Americans, Japanese, and others enjoy their high standard of today living because their grandmothers and grandfathers worked in sweatshops a century ago.' Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College, and author of Free Trade Under Fire\n\nThis book provides a comprehensive defense of third-world sweatshops. It explains]