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means of supporting a family (Lund-Thomsen 2008; Shell 2009). Workers in develop-

ing countries do not understand when university students call on their schools to

boycott sweatshops. To these workers, boycotting sweatshops means taking away

their sole means of income (Miller 2003). For women, the only alternative to working

in a sweatshop may be living in prostitution or a hard life as an agricultural worker

(Eckes 2011).

Second, for a developing country, sweatshops may be the main link to global supply

chains. Indeed, “global supply chains matter for international development … as the

ability of co