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11 - What Good Can Activists Do?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2025

Benjamin Powell
Benjamin Powell
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
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This chapter argues that if anti-sweatshop activists want to help workers they should specifically target and boycott slave labor sweatshops such as those in China with forced Uyghur labor; advocate and monitor “ethical branding”; buy goods made in the Third World; pay children to go to school to reduce child labor; promote the process of development; and advocate for relaxing immigration restrictions.

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slave laborChinaUyghursforced laborethical brandingfree tradeimmigrationemigrationeconomic freedominstitutional change
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Out of Poverty
Sweatshops in the Global Economy
 , pp. 171 - 195
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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