Sweatshops

[Peter Dorman <dormanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The critique of the neoclassical argument is straightforward.  We are not
saying people would be better off in the informal sector or on the land than in
a sweatshop.  We are saying that there are other, repressed alternatives that
are better than any of these.

Hell, just unlocking the doors (so people don't get cremated on the job) and
not firing women if they get pregnant is a superior, repressed alternative.

Peter

> >Doug Henwood wrote:>>A friend of mine who spent a few years as a reporter
> >in
> >Vietnam interviewed Nike workers who told her that they prefer their
> >sweatshop jobs to what they would have been  doing otherwise - things like
> >chasing rats in rice paddies (not much fun to be a woman on the farm).<<
> >