Child Labor and Sweatshops | Efforts to Reduce the Use of Sweatshops Are Misguided
Irwin M. Stelzer is the director of regulatory policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
Summary: Attempts to reduce the use of overseas sweatshops are misguided. The effort on the part of trade unions and government officials to raise wages and to have goods manufactured under humane conditions would greatly increase production costs, driving many overseas plants out of business. This, in turn, would hurt the economies of developing nations and irrevocably damage international trade. Moreover, laborers in foreign factories...
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