1. Benjamin Powell Director, Free Market Institute Texas Tech University and Senior Fellow Independent Institute

2. Sweatshop Working Conditions Low Pay (by Western Standards) Long Hours Health and Safety Risk Poor Conditions NOT: Forced Labor

3. Anti-Sweatshop Movement AFL-CIO, Unite, USAS, NLC, ILO, Celebs Minimum (Living) Wage, Improved Safety and Working Conditions, Unionization, Enforced Labor Laws, No Child Labor. “Everybody wants to have a living wage. Everybody wants to be able to take care of themselves and their family. Everybody wants to retire and feel good, enjoy life. Breathe. Live. Eat. You know, the regular shit. We’re not asking for nothing extra special.” Sheri Davis, Ohio State.

4. Wage Determination Upper Bound – About 85% of Cross Country Variation Lower Bound Can’t it just come out of “huge” profits?

10. Working Conditions Mix of Compensation

11. Sam Bridge and Nicotex Inadequate Pay Long Hours Poor Working Conditions Lack of Mandated Health Insurance Lack of Mandated Vacation Time Verbal Abuse

12. Survey of Guatemalan Sweatshops

13. Save the Children? Why Children Work 1993 Child Labor Deterrence Act – Oxfam

15. Where Children Work

16. Cure for Child Labor

17. What About Labor Laws?

18. The Process of Development Sweatshops Not New Proximate Causes – Capital – Technology – Human Capital Process in Great Britain and U.S. Sweatshop Countries in 1950

19. What Good Can Activists Do?

21. What Good Can Activists Do Branding? Free Trade Immigration Institutional Reform Do No Harm

22. www.fmi.ttu.edu