Poverty-Wage Assembly Plants as Development Strategy in Haiti http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/poverty-wage-assembly-plants-as-development-strategy-in-haiti/

The benefit of cheap imports for U.S. consumers is one matter, sweatshops as Horatio Alger tool another. To date, the assembly industry in Haiti has not provided poverty alleviation. Most factory workers live direly impoverished lives on the industry minimum wage of 125 gourdes (US$3.09) per day, without the opportunity to raise their pay, learn skills, or advance professionally. The right to unionize is protected in the constitution, but prohibited in practice by the standard management response of firing workers who attempt to form unions.