Sweatshops

From: I
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2018 12:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Sweatshop References

Dear Professor Block,

I’m a big fan! I’m working on a short essay relating to sweatshops. What would you say are some good references on sweatshops, particularly in Asia?

Thanks, I

Dear I: There ought to be some stuff in this biblio on Aisa:

Block, 2000, 2008, 2011; Carden, 2011; DiLorenzo, 2006; Greene, Henry, Nathanson and Block, 2007; Hellmer, 2005, 2014; Hunter, 2016; Krugman, 1997, 2001; Myerson, 1997; Powell, 2006, 2008, 2014A, 2014B, 2016; Powell and Skarbek, 2006; Powell and Zwolinski, 2012;  Stepp, 2001; Williams, 2004; Zwolinski, 2007

http://libertycrier.com/stop-protesting-sweatshops/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LibertyCrier+%28Liberty+Crier%29

Block, Walter E. 2000. “Protest! (For No Good Reason),” The Free Market, May, Volume 18, Number 5; http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=313;

http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=313&sortorder=authorlast

Block, Walter E. 2008. Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable.  London, UK: World Scientific Publishing

Block, Walter E. 2011. “Reply to Hellmer on sweatshops.” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 22, pp. 719–739;http://mises.org/journals/jls/22_1/22_1_36.pdf

Carden, Art. 2011. “Quick Musings on Sweatshops and Immigration.” April 8; https://mises.org/blog/quick-musings-sweatshops-and-immigration

DiLorenzo, Thomas J. 2006.  “How ‘Sweatshops’ Help the Poor.” November 9; https://mises.org/library/how-sweatshops-help-poor

Greene, Zoe, Sally Henry, Coby Nathanson and Walter E. Block. 2007. “Negative Impacts of Minimum Wage and anti Sweatshop Legislation” Humanomics. Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 83-92; http://tinyurl.com/27fj7f

Hellmer, Muetze Ellennita. 2005. “Establishing Government Accountability in the Anti-Sweatshop Campaign: Toward a Logical, Activist Approach to Improving the Working Conditions of the Poor.” Journal of Libertarian Studies. Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer, pp. 33-47;http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/19_3/19_3_2.pdf

Hellmer, Muetze Ellennita. 2014. Establishing Government Accountability in the Anti-Sweat Shop Campaign: Toward a Logical, Activist Approach to Improving the Working Conditions of the Poor.” July 30; https://mises.org/library/establishing-government-accountability-anti-sweat-shop-campaign-toward-logical-activist

Hotfelder, Aaron. 2009. “Why Nicholas Kristof is right to defend ‘sweatshops’ in his recent New York Times op-ed.”January 19;http://www.gadling.com/2009/01/19/nicholas-kristof-sticks-up-for-sweatshops-in-em-new-york-time/

Hunter, Brittany. 2016. “Beyonce’s ‘Sweatshop’ Helps the Poor and Empowers Women.” August 8; https://mises.org/blog/beyonce%E2%80%99s-sweatshop-helps-poor-and-empowers-women

Krugman, Paul. 1997. “In Praise of Cheap Labor, Bad Jobs at Bad Wages are Better Than No Jobs at All.” Slate, March 21;http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/1997/03/in_praise_of_cheap_labor.html

Krugman, Paul. 2001. “Reckonings: Hearts and Heads.” New York Times. April 22; http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/opinion/reckonings-hearts-and-heads.html

Myerson, Allen.  1997. “In Principle, a Case For More ‘Sweatshops’” June 22;

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/22/weekinreview/in-principle-a-case-for-more-sweatshops.html

Powell, Benjamin. 2006. “In Reply to Sweatshop Sophistries” Human Rights Quarterly. Vol. 28, No. 4, November, pp. 1032-1042

http://mail.beaconhill.org/~bpowell/reply%20to%20sweatshop%20sophistries.pdf

Powell, Benjamin. 2008. “In Defense of ‘Sweatshops.’” Library of economics and liberty.

June 2; http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2008/Powellsweatshops.html

Powell, Benjamin. 2014A. Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy.

Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Powell, Benjamin. 2014B. “Sweatshops: A Way Out of Poverty.” March 14; https://mises.org/library/sweatshops-way-out-poverty

Powell, Benjamin. 2016. “Sweatshops.” July 26; https://mises.org/library/sweatshops

Powell, Benjamin, and David Skarbek. 2006. “Sweatshop Wages and Third World Workers:  Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?” Journal of Labor Research. Vol. XXVII, No. 2, Spring, pp. 263-274;

http://mail.beaconhill.org/~bpowell/sweatshops%20and%20third%20world%20%20living%20standards.pdf

Powell, Benjamin & Matt Zwolinski. 2012. “The Ethical and Economic Case Against Sweatshop Labor: A Critical Assessment.” Journal of Business Ethics. Volume 107 Number 4; https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/2175538418r43400/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdf&sid=4llc311ukv5vaa0oi1d4gim4&sh=www.springerlink.com

Stepp, William. 2001. “Nike is right.” March 14; https://mises.org/library/nike-right

Williams, Walter E. 2004. “Sweatshop Exploitation.” WND Commentary. January 28; http://www.wnd.com/2004/01/22978/

Zwolinski, Matt. 2007. “Sweatshops, Choice, and Exploitation,” Business Ethics Quarterly 17, pp. 689-727.

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