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June 07, 2006
Viva La Sweatshops?
Brad Plumer's in excellent form today with a nice blast against the occasional neoliberal clucking that if leftists really cared about the poor, they'd embrace the most brutal, unsafe, low-paying sweatshops they could find. As he notes, the actual correlation between labor standards, production prices, and foreign investment is far weaker than one might expect. Not all sweatshops are bad, to be sure, but by the same token, not all are good.
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Not all sweatshops are bad, to be sure
Disagree. A sweatshop by definition is a bad place to be. A "good sweatshop" isn't a sweatshop anymore, it's just a factory.
Posted by: fiat lux | Jun 7, 2006 11:03:21 AM
Do we hold the whole world to our standards when making these judgements? If a country/society/culture is better off with the factory than without, do we deny them economic advancement?
I'm not arguing either way, but this is the fundamental question that is not asked by the well-meaning students.
Posted by: Fred Jones. | Jun 7, 2006 1:00:58 PM
Ehhh, I trust Paul Krugman's thinking on these issues a lot more than I do Plumer's.
Posted by: Dustin | Jun 8, 2006 7:35:10 PM
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