Sweatshops and Child Labor: Boycotting Sweatshops

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LECTURE 9
Stossel, John. 2003. “Sweatshops” Give me a Break! (ABC News) (Transcript).
Learn Liberty. 2011. ” The Unbelievable Truth about Sweatshops (Ben Powell).”
Free to Choose Network. 2016. “Dead Wrong with Johan Norberg – Child Labor and Globalization.”
LECTURE 9
Sweatshops and Child Labor
– Opponents
Bachman, Sarah. 2003. “The (Limited) Case for Boycott Threats, Boycotts, and Selective Purchasing.” Ethics and Economics 1(1) (December).
Edmonds, Eric. 2003. “Should We Boycott Child Labor?” Ethics and Economics 1(1), December.
– Supporters
Powell, Benjamin. 2008. “In defense of ‘Sweatshops’.” Library of Economics and Liberty (June 02).
Follett, Chelsea. 2017. “Student Activists Hurt the Workers They Try to Help.” Intercollegiate Review (Spring).
Blattman, Christopher and Stefan Dercon. 2017. “Everything We Knew about Sweatshops was Wrong.” New York Times (April 27).
Tupy, Marian. 2018. “Growth is the Ultimate Weapon in the Fight to End Child Labour.” CapX (November 13).
Horwitz, Steven. 2016. “We Didn’t Humanize Markets, Markets Humanized Us.” Fee.org (September 8).