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Sweatshop wages and Third-World workers : are the wages worth the sweat?.

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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...

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Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Closed-captions in English.
Published:	Arlington, VA, USA : The Institute for Humane Studies, 2011.
Subjects:	Wages > Developing countries. Sweatshops. Business ethics. Sweating-system. Morale des affaires. sweatshops. Wages. Developing countries. Internet videos. Nonfiction television programs. Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction. Vidéos sur Internet.
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