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The Rise of Sweatshops Due to Globalization’s “Race to the Bottom” What is economic globalization? This is a term that refers to the expansion of economies beyond national borders, particularly through trade of goods and services. While supporters of economic globalization talk of increased prosperity and development, the reality is economic globalization has led to a global race to the bottom, creating a sweatshop epidemic. Globalization allows corporations immense power and weakens any single nation’s ability to: control corporate practices and flows of capital, set regulations, control