Sweatshop And Cheap Labour Benefit The Poor

In order to strive for economic growth and expansion, and the concept of doing so ethically is unrealistic. The worldview of what is ethical and not is shapeless and constantly changes. Instead of focusing on cold hard data and emphasizing on results, nations are economically staggering due their domestic culture. In reality, consumers lack the ethical consumption patterns to deter the roots of these taboo procedures. It has been shown that buyers typically act on economic rationalization, a focus that value the worth of a purchase to the value of their money (Eckhardt and Belk 427). Instead of tackling the cause of the problem, critics point the blame toward outsourcing. Overtime, the perception of the word “outsourcing” and been tainted and tarnished.
There’s a misconception when the term “cheap labor” is used. In comparison to the United States minimum wage standard to other developing countries, there is a tremendous gap in income per capita. In 2008, the average monthly income for an unskilled chinese worker is approximately 500 a month, while a sweatshops typical employee make slighter above that by 100 U.S. dollar. Unlike most jobs in China, these sweatshop offer bonus, health benefits, housing and meals to their employees. While this course of action reduce cost, it also created jobs in