{"id":276,"date":"2020-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/working-conditions-in-supply-chains\/2020\/07\/01\/exporting-sweatshops-evidence-from-myanmar\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:18:16","slug":"exporting-sweatshops-evidence-from-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/working-conditions-in-supply-chains\/2020\/07\/01\/exporting-sweatshops-evidence-from-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Exporting Sweatshops? Evidence from Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key Insights for Managers<\/emphasis><\/h2>\n<p>How does the decision of garment factories in developing countries to begin exporting to serve foreign clients affect their factory working conditions? 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While the decision to export has negligible influence on wages or working hours, it does have positive effects in management practices\u2014such as production monitoring, quality control, and machine maintenance\u2014and the likelihood of receiving a labor auditing to assess working conditions.<\/p>\n<link xlink_href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7910\/DVN\/C8JKBM\" xlink_show=\"new\" xlink_title=\"\">Replication data for this paper is available at Harvard Dataverse<\/link>.<\/p>\n<p><eztemplate name=\"microsite_prev_next\" ezxhtml_class=\"ez-custom-tag ez-custom-tag--attributes-visible\"><ezcontent><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/ezcontent><\/eztemplate><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/rest\/article\/102\/3\/442\/96770\/Exporting-Sweatshops-Evidence-from-Myanmar\">Link to the Full Text<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Geography<\/strong>: Myanmar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Industry<\/strong>: Clothing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International trade in low-income countries such as Myanmar can improve factory working conditions in the areas of fire safety, freedom of association, and health management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19149,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"rkv_hide_featured_image":false,"rkv_hide_page_title":false,"rkv_hide_abstract_shapes":true,"rkv_reduce_header":false,"hbsd3_featured_media_url":"","hbsd3_featured_media_url_autoplay":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[184,75,62],"tax_cop":[],"rkv-people-shadow":[185],"insight_type":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-management-systems","tag-exporting","tag-safety","tag-working-conditions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Exporting Sweatshops? 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