Re: in praise of sweatshops

>http://www.spp.umich.edu/rsie/acit/ > > >-- >Michael Perelman Well, Jagdish and T.N. are broadly right: the focus of the campaigns has been on stopping the purchase of goods from "sweatshops" rather than on upgrading conditions in "sweatshops." Getting textile firms to pay higher wages in the

Re: Re: in praise of sweatshops

I don't understand this comment. Demanding higher wages is exactly what the anti-sweatshop groups are doing. (This is one of the sticking points in the battle between the two monitoring groups.) I don't see any evidence that they want clothes to be produced in the US rather than elsewhere. In

Re: Re: Re: in praise of sweatshops

Peter Dorman wrote: >I don't understand this comment. Demanding higher wages is exactly what >the anti-sweatshop groups are doing. Yes. For an overview of what the student branch of the movement is up to, see . They're demanding t