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7 - Save the Children?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2025

Benjamin Powell
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
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This chapter shows that child labor is common in most countries with sweatshops but that most children don’t work in manufacturing – most work in agriculture or the service sector. Thus, calls to ban imported sweatshop goods made using child labor ends up shifting even more children into agriculture and services where pay is often lower and work less safe. The chapter argues that the process of economic development that raises average incomes has been the main cure for child labor. Anti–child labor laws typically codify improvements that market competition already achieved.

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Out of Poverty
Sweatshops in the Global Economy
, pp. 105 - 117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Save the Children?
  • Benjamin Powell, Texas Tech University
  • Book: Out of Poverty
  • Online publication: 02 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009505321.008
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  • Save the Children?
  • Benjamin Powell, Texas Tech University
  • Book: Out of Poverty
  • Online publication: 02 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009505321.008
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  • Save the Children?
  • Benjamin Powell, Texas Tech University
  • Book: Out of Poverty
  • Online publication: 02 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009505321.008
Available formats
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