Jun. 1st, 2007 11:40 pm
good fucking god
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toastykittenI can't believe I read the following comment on Hugo Schwyzer's blog:
At second glance, after reading works about globalization like Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom or Paul Krugman’s amazing piece “In Praise of Cheap Labor” http://www.slate.com/id/1918 or the more recent book “Travels of a T-Shirt” by Pietra Rivoli, I began to realize that sweatshops often give women in the developing world their first chance at economic independence. It puts them into the labor force which is a very important part of the development of gender rights. They earn money for themselves. Women who work tend to get married later in life and have fewer children.
UGH. Sure, sweatshops are great. They totally give women freedom! Someone should tell my mom that all those 12 hour days she worked made her more free!
At second glance, after reading works about globalization like Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom or Paul Krugman’s amazing piece “In Praise of Cheap Labor” http://www.slate.com/id/1918 or the more recent book “Travels of a T-Shirt” by Pietra Rivoli, I began to realize that sweatshops often give women in the developing world their first chance at economic independence. It puts them into the labor force which is a very important part of the development of gender rights. They earn money for themselves. Women who work tend to get married later in life and have fewer children.
UGH. Sure, sweatshops are great. They totally give women freedom! Someone should tell my mom that all those 12 hour days she worked made her more free!
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