搾取工場のグローバル経済における役割：生活水準の向上と経済成長（第２版） Out of Poverty : Sweatshops in the Global Economy（2）

著者名：Powell, Benjamin

Cambridge University Press（2025/01/09発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781009505352
• eISBN：9781009505338

Description

Out of Poverty provides a comprehensive defence of Third World sweatshops that does not put economic efficiency over people, but instead explores methods of improving the welfare of those in Third World countries. The author explains how sweatshops provide the best opportunity for workers; and how they play an important role in development, leading to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory, empirical evidence, and historical investigation, Powell argues that the anti-sweatshop movement would harm the very workers it intends to help by creating less-desirable alternatives and undermining development. Including a new chapter on the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, this revised and expanded second edition also explores how sweatshop wages have changed and how poverty alleviation has progressed in countries with sweatshops in the late 1990s and early 2000s and how boycotting Uyghur forced labor in China differs other sweatshop boycotts.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The anti-sweatshop movement; 3. The economics of sweatshop wage determination; 4. Don't cry for me Kathie Lee: how sweatshop wages compare to alternatives; 5. Health, safety, and working conditions laws; 6. The Rana Plaza disaster and its aftermath; 7. Save the children?; 8. Is it ethical to buy sweatshop products?; 9. A history of sweatshops, 1780–2019; 10. The process of economic development; 11. What good can activists do?; 12. Conclusion.