Sweatshop helps developing countries!

by Tomoe Kusubae

I’m convinced by the article which is In Defense of “sweatshop”.  I went to Bangladesh and talked with the CEO of the national daily goods company.  The CEO said that they need foreign companies to develop the country’s economy.  That’s because Bangladesh doesn’t have know-how to do business and make world level goods.  If the citizens learn know-how and get skills from other countries, they can develop their country.   However, it is difficult to learn in the country because they don’t have education systems.  The sweatshop has training system which works all over the world.  In addition, sometimes the labors don’t trust him because he is also from Bangladesh.  Even though foreign companies tell the same advice, the labors trust not the CEO but foreigner.  The sweatshop has a power as foreigner in the developing country.
   

As the author says, “Because sweatshops are better than the alternatives, any reforms aimed at improving the lives of workers in sweatshops must not jeopardize the jobs that they already have(Porwell, 1).”  The sweatshop has enough facility and environment.  Those conditions are worse than developed countries but they are enough in developing countries. 

     
The sweatshop also gives the benefit for local people except the wage or condition.  My developing countries friends said to me that they wanted to work at the sweatshop because they can get the state of working at foreign big companies.  Some those countries still have hierarchy so they want to be higher state and getting jobs is changeable by themselves while they can’t change the social state of family and gender.  The sweatshop gives those of them higher station in life.  Local people get confidence and can work. 
  
  In short, the sweatshop has world level know-how to do business and works well to tell it to the developing countries labors.  It also gives those countries good working condition and the states of working at foreign companies.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2008/Powellsweatshops.html