Answer to Question #148492 in Macroeconomics for Dequan Sturdivant

Question

To show its support for underpaid workers in poor countries who are exploited in sweat-shops and made to work in unsatisfactory conditions, the United States should restrict imports from countries where such conditions are allowed to exist." Evaluate.

Answer 1

US has better labour rules compared to other undeveloped countries, but it still faces sweatshop conditions. More labour harrassments slip into US department of labour. Sweatshops mostly have poor working conditions, poor payment, child labour and a lack of benefits of workers. Sweatshops do not stop poverty. The people who are forced to work must spend their payment on food for their families survival.