Beyond Sweatshops
Subtitle: Foreign Direct Investment and Globalization in Developing Nations
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: June 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780815706151
Subjects: Development studies; Globalization; Manufacturing industries; OECD countries; International - Economics; Employees; Politics / Current Events; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Labor; Investments, Foreign, and empl; General; Developing countries; Politics - Current Events; Foreign trade and employment; Investments, Foreign, and employment
First sentence: Following in the tradition of Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade, by Gary Burtless, Robert Z. Lawrence, and Robert Litan, this volume was designed to address fundamental questions about foreign direct investment and development: -What impact do foreign investors and their subcontractors, in sectors other than natural resources and infrastructure, have on the lives of workers and average citizens in the developing world?