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Entries Tagged ‘sweatshops’

In defence of sweatshops

Another great lecture from Learn Liberty. The issue of sweatshop labour is a favourite of lefties and liberals everywhere. Little do they realise when they protest sweatshops that they’re destroying what little opportunities the poor in third world countries actually have. In some examples in Cambodia, pressure on corporations to close sweatshops actually lead to [...]

Deconstructing the sweatshop story

Demonising sweatshops (also known as “factories” but built in a poor country) is a favourite past time of the economically illiterate. It’s very easy to rant and moan about big business “exploiting the poor”; it’s a lot harder to explain how a poor country can transform into a prosperous nation without first going through a [...]

  

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