Summary Of Two Cheers For Sweatshops

In the article Two Cheers for Sweatshops, there are arguments on the positive outcome of sweatshops in impoverished areas and LDCs. Sweatshops provide these poverty ridden countries with a chance to earn money and help families live better lives. People are proud to work in sweatshops and need to work in them, especially since there is not much else that people can do in their area without paying for education, travel, and additional costs. Working in sweatshops is best for the entire family, especially since work means that the family will be making some sort of an income, and even a dollar a day can benefit an entire family in these countries. The author mentions how a family in Cambodia lives in an area with a lot of malaria, and one daughter and her husband died leaving the mother with grandchildren to take care of alongside her other children.
With sweatshops, she would be able to work to afford the $5 mosquito net and there would be no need for her to feel like she must sacrifice some of her children or grandchildren. These sweatshops allow countries to develop through these sweatshops, like Taiwan and South Korea. Both of these places now have lower child mortality rates because they accepted sweatshops as a part of development for their country. Most of Asia is now developing at a faster pace because of the prominent use of sweatshops by the United States. These countries are able to improve as they continue to embrace work in sweatshops and continue to advance through the world. There is an acceptance that sweatshops can be improved by having a safer workplace, but overall sweatshops help the people who the United States believes are