Sweatshop wages and Third-World workers : are the wages worth the sweat?.
Professor Benjamin Powell defines sweatshops and explains that the actions of the anti-sweatshop protest movement will not actually improve workers' situations. Sweatshops are a stage in every country's economic development, and worker conditions and wages can only improve with time and fu...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captions in English. |
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Arlington, VA, USA :
The Institute for Humane Studies,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video |
| Summary: | Professor Benjamin Powell defines sweatshops and explains that the actions of the anti-sweatshop protest movement will not actually improve workers' situations. Sweatshops are a stage in every country's economic development, and worker conditions and wages can only improve with time and further advances. He also offers a way for activists to effectively speed this process and incentivize the payment of higher wages. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (35 min., 31 sec.)) : sound, colour |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| ISBN: | 9781473980969 1473980968 |