Sweatshops, Choice and Exploitation

Matt Zvolinsky
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Matt Zvolinsky: University of San Diego

Ekonomicheskaya Politika / Economic Policy, 2011, vol. 3, 25 pages

Abstract: This paper argues that sweatshop workers’ choices to accept the conditions of their employment are morally significant, both as an exercise of their autonomy and as an expression of their preferences. This fact establishes a moral claim against interference in the conditions of sweatshop labor by third parties such as governments or consumer boycott groups. It should also lead us to doubt those who call for MNEs to voluntarily improve working conditions, at least when their arguments are based on the claim that workers have a moral right to such improvement.

Keywords: ethics; sweatshops; multinational enterprises; choices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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