What Role Do Sweatshops Play In Moving People Out Of Poverty

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Sweatshops play a key role in moving people out of poverty. The others point to the economic benefits that sweatshops provide in developing countries with high rates of poverty. In fact, if by developed countries outsourcing labor to developing countries, they actually contributing some amount of wealth to those developing countries. Because the bad jobs at low wages are better than no jobs at all. If we look at sweatshops from the perspective of the poor workers, which looks better. Sweatshops are an important work in getting people out of poverty. It decreasing the gap between rich and poor. Globalization taking a big part related to the sweatshop in many developing countries. “In fact, the most vibrant parts of Asia are nearly all in what

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