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This 12 page paper examines the widely held perceptive that international trade has lead to the exploitation of workers in developing nations. The writer undertakes a comprehensive evaluation of this perception looking at evidence that supports and rejects the idea of exploitation. The paper argues that exploitation is not taking place when wages are considered in their local context or in the wider context of the development stage of the different countries economies. The bibliography cites 13 sources.
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to the public and the realisation of competitive advantages in order to meet consumer and commercial requirements has fuelled international trade. The developing nations have been fast to act. With
high levels of poverty there has been a desire to attract international investment in order to bring in money to develop the economies. This desire to attract foreign investment either
directly or indirectly, or to enter the trading market and sell goods internationally has been blamed for the exploitation of the countries and the workers. The level of development in
these economies are less complex. there are fewer employment laws and lower standards for environmental laws. This, along with the cheaper rate of labour, are seen as having a competitive
advantage over western nations were wages and controls are higher. This will then attract the investment by companies seeking to benefit from lower wages costs. This attitude may be
interpreted as a profiteering attitude, and the association of profit with exploitation is one that has existed since before the time Karl Marx divided the population into the bourgeoisie and
the proletariat; the exploited and the exploiters (Marx, 1848). This image has stayed and the international companies have been seen as the exploiters whilst the workers in the third world
or developing nations, have been seen as the exploited. Whilst this may be seen as true in terms of environmental impact of trade, when we look at wages this is
less clear. It is easy to argue that wages are much lower than they would be in developed national and assume form this that the lower level of wages equals
exploitations. However, in this paper we will argue that this is not necessarily the case. We will argue that international trade has not lead to the exploitation of workers in
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