I ran across this news item regarding widespread strikes among Bangladeshi garment workers (see the second blurb, below the Pakistan item). It seems the garment workers want a minimum wage increase from under a dollar a day to just under $3US a day. And the government and the police are offering their services to private factory owners to control the unruly workers. This gives the lie to people like Jeffrey Sachs who see sweatshop workers as docile proto-bourgeois who are just thrilled to be earning a cash wage and driving their country's economic growth.
Hey, maybe if the Bangladeshis succeed in raising their minimum wage, Haiti will be in a better position to attract sweatshop investors!
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