Benefits Of Free Trade And Sweatshops

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The debate for fewer jobs is very false since the job market has been balanced since free trade. For every job in the textile or auto industry that was lost in the United States, two or more have been created in high technology or other advanced industries. It is because high-skilled jobs require a level of worker education and skills that developing countries cannot provide due to their economy. However, when multinational cooperation move to the developing economies they grant them two benefits; first the proximal benefit is the employment opportunity, and the ultimate benefit is the better future in regards to a rising economy. Therefore, Henderson was right to argue that “a miserable job is much better than a much more miserable job. People …show more content…

Withal, both have down side effects. Free trade does help in progressing an economy as seen in China’s economy growth. Research demonstrates that countries with more flexible labour markets have more people involved in the labour force, lower unemployment rates, and lower rates of long-term unemployment. These three advantages progress the circumstances for those in developing countries (Samida, 2000). It provides employment opportunity that helps many families in the developing countries. As Mangkol Latlakon in northeastern Thailand awfully wishes that Darin his daughter never loses her job in the factory because “it is good pay” (Kristof, 200). Free trade activist do not realize that the campaigns they are a part of risk harming the people that it is intended to help. Therefore, I do believe and agree that free trade helps recover a falling economy but I do not completely side with free trade because if it is approved by a whole nation an individual does not have a say in following the free trade policy. Those citizens that do not agree on the free trade policies have no option but to obey and confine with them or they would not be able to make a

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