This chapter considers ethical issues related to the contemporary translation industry, about which little, to our knowledge, has previously been written to date. Many publications concerning ethics in translation have theorised on whether the translator should be constrained by fidelity to the source text or should be permitted to refuse to translate material that they consider unethical (Chesterman 1997; Van Wyke 2012), or on how translators negotiate a liminal space between cultures (Pym 2012) without consideration of the ethical issues related to the translation industry and the way it relates to its main stakeholders. Tymoczko (2007) and Abdallah (2010) on asymmetries of power and Drugan's (2017) consideration of social responsibility and responsibility to clients, which harks back to a discussion of ethical dimensions of functionalism by Nord (1997) and the need to balance fidelity to the source, target, and facilitation of intercultural communication.
Exceptions include work byIn this chapter, we focus on ethical concerns experienced by (and directed at) different stakeholders in the translation industry at various levels in translation production. These stakeholders' responsibilities and priorities may differ depending on the organisation's size,