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- Title
Global apparel production and sweatshop labour: can raising retail prices finance living wages?
- Authors
Pollin, Robert; Burns, Justine; Heintz, James
- Abstract
This paper provides some empirical evidence on issues raised by the global anti-sweatshop movement. We first consider the relationship between wage and employment growth, finding no consistent trade-off between them. We then measure the share of labour costs in the production of garments in the US and Mexico. We find that the retail price increases necessary to absorb the costs of raising wages substantially are small, well within the range of price increases that polls suggest US consumers are willing to pay. We close by considering some implications of these results.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEXICO; SWEATSHOPS; LABOR costs; PRICE variance; TEXTILE industry
- Publication
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2004, Vol 28, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
0309-166X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cje/28.2.153