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"In the age of globalization, retailers frequently outsource the assembly of their products to lower-cost foreign countries in order to obtain the advantages of cost arbitrage. Over the past twenty years, American shoe and clothing retailers have been on the forefront of this trend. Major brands such as Nike and Reebok have come to be associated with what are known as 'sweatshops,' or Third World production facilities that, particularly to Western observers, reek of unfair labor conditions at best and criminal employment practices at worst. Growing consumer awareness of outsourcing and the political upheaval generated by globalization have combined to generate a fiery debate over the topic of sweatshops."

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Sweatshops and Third World Poverty: Trusting, but Tweaking, the Market Introduction In the age of globalization, retailers frequently outsource the assembly of their products to lower-cost foreign countries in order to obtain the advantages of cost arbitrage. Over the past twenty years, American shoe and clothing retailers have been on the forefront of this trend. Major brands such as Nike and Reebok have come to be associated with what are known as `sweatshops,' or Third World production facilities that, particularly to Western observers, reek of unfair labor conditions at best and criminal employment practices at worst.

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