I am considering writing my paper on the dependence of American Industries on labor in third world and developing nations.
I searched "sweatshops" on wikipedia. Here are a few of the things I learned:
-Paul Krugman and Johan Norberg say that defend sweatshops because they offer jobs and promote development in third world countries
-The Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act has been proposed to prohibit the import/export/sale of goods made with sweatshop labor
-This bill has failed to pass twice
-in third world countries, women are more likely to seek jobs in the sweatshop industry
-the major debate is over whether sweatshops can be a "necessary evil" that provides money (which is better than none at all) or if sweatshops exploit third world countries
-some argued that sweatshops were better than manual farm labor
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I think all these points are all very ligament points that you may be able to use in your paper. I think that it might be interesting to see what parts lobbyists and who they represented had to do with the failure of the Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition bill.
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