Read the following article and answer the questions below:
Where Sweatshops are a Dream
**if you have a difficult time viewing this link or it states that it is no longer available, please see me for a hard copy of the article**
1.Define: sweatshop, miasma, oppressive, exploit, protectionist, hierarchy, capital, wistful
2.Summarize the author's views on sweatshops. Do you think he makes a persuasive argument? Why or why not?
3.What are trade agreements? What are labor standards? Name examples of each.
4.How are tighter labor standards used as an excuse to limit international trade?
5.What is a “capital-intensive” factory? How is it different from a “labor-intensive” factory? Why would a poor country be more likely to have labor-intensive factories?
6.What are the unintended consequences of American and European efforts to ban sweatshops or to boycott companies that buy goods produced in sweatshops?
7.Should sweatshop jobs be judged against American working standards or against the other options that are actually available to people in poor countries?
No comments:
Post a Comment