On Third World Sweatshops

From Benjamin Powell's impressive book. Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy:

Working in an average sweatshop in Cambodia, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras. Nicaragua and Vietnam raises a worker's income above the average of the country In fact, in Haiti, Honduras and Nicaragua sweatshop workers earn more than twice the national average.
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The small amount of pay they receive often represents a large improvement in their ability to feed, clothe, and shelter their families...In fact, a T-shirt could capture this point nicely. It would have a sweatshop worker on the front with a caption that says "She fed and clothed her family" and on the back of the shirt would read, "and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."