Come out for this great event!  Details are below in case you didn't get them all from the flier above:

"Do Sweatshops Save Lives? - A Debate on Enrichment vs. Exploitation"
Monday, December 1, 7:00 PM
Cook-DeWitt Center, Grand Valley State University (Allendale Campus)

SFE is proud to be -co-hosting the event with the following groups:
The Grand Valley Economics Club
Students for Fair Trade
The Anthropology Department
The Women and Gender Studies Department
The Honors College

Bama Athreya discusses East Asian political issues from three perspectives: government policy, academic analysis, and personal experience. She worked as a U.S. Embassy official in Indonesia from 1992 to 1994. Later, she returned to Indonesia to live and work with factory workers while doing field research toward a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology. She eventually joined the AFL-CIO as Field Office Director in Cambodia, where she ran trade union education programs for the country's first independent unions. Ms. Athreya is now a program associate with the International Labor Rights Fund in Washington, D.C., where she does research and advocacy work on the social impacts of global trade, and directs a new project on China.

Benjamin Powell is an assistant professor of economics at Suffolk University, a senior economist with the Beacon Hill Institute, and a research fellow with the Independent Institute. He earned his B.S. in economics and finance from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. Powell has written numerous articles on sweatshops.  His scholarly research on sweatshops has appeared in the Journal of Labor Research and Human Rights Quarterly.  In the popular press it has appeared in the New York Times and Christian Science monitor among other outlets and he has even defended sweatshops on Penn and Teller's Showtime series "Bullsh!t".

It's free and open to all!

Facebook event here.