… is from page 158 of Texas Tech economist (and GMU Econ PhD) Ben Powell’s excellent 2014 book, Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy:
Agitating for policies that would take the option of sweatshop employment away from these workers makes the workers worse off. It throws them into a worse alternative now and it undermines the process of economic development that ultimately leads to better paying jobs with better working conditions.
