Sweatshops, Exploitation, and the Case for a Fair Wage

Kates, Michael

doi:10.1111/jopp.12155

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“…Work contracts offer real-life examples of challenges similar to those of the sailor, albeit less colorful. In particular, sweatshops have received much attention in the business ethics literature (e.g., Kates 2019;Powell and Zwolinski 2012;Sollars and Englander 2018). Sweatshops are exploitative environments, where people work under poor conditions, such as extremely low wages, excessively long work hours, or health and safety hazards (Radin and Calkins 2006).…”

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Freedom trumps profit: a liberal approach to business ethics

Ostermaier

Aaken

2020

J Bus Econ

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Liberalism is denounced by its critics as an ideology that advocates profit seeking and breeds economic crises. Even much of the CSR literature is pitched against liberalism. Liberalism, however, is about freedom much more than profits. It both legitimizes and confines contracting in markets. Specifically, contracts are legitimate if they are based on voluntary consent and thus reflect contractors' freedom. We propose a broad understanding of freedom and derive criteria as guidance for contractors to establish voluntary consent. For illustration, we discuss the example of sweatshops. We suggest that liberalism is a potentially valuable resource in developing CSR theory.

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Section: The Example Of Sweatshop Labormentioning

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Freedom trumps profit: a liberal approach to business ethics

Ostermaier

Aaken

2020

J Bus Econ

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“…But there will be disagreement about what counts as an informed agreement and what factors undermine its voluntariness. Disagreement about what information is required for transactions to be fair can be found in debates about nondisclosure in sales (Carson, 2010; Strudler, 1997), and disagreement about the nature of voluntariness can be found in debates about exploitation in sweatshops (Kates, 2019; Zwolinski, 2007).…”

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What’s in a Wage? A New Approach to the Justification of Pay

Moriarty

2019

Bus. Ethics Q.

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In this address, I distinguish and explore three conceptions of wages. A wage is a reward, given in recognition of the performance of a valued task. It is also an incentive: a way to entice workers to take and keep jobs, and to motivate them to work hard. Finally, a wage is a price of labor, and like all prices, conveys valuable information about relative scarcity. I show that each conception of wages has its own normative logic, or appropriate justification, and these logics can come apart. This explains some of the debate about wages and makes the project of justifying a wage simpliciter difficult. I identify which logic we should choose, since we must choose, and say what this means for how we should think about the justification of pay.

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“…Control variables such as the youth dependency ratio were also added to the model. The specific model expression as follows: (1) This equation was used to test Hypothesis 1. In Equation (1), the real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of countries in 2010 (in constant U.S. dollars) was used to indicate the quality of national economic development.…”

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“…There is a popular belief that working long hours promotes social development. During the industrial revolution, organisations exploited cheap labour and hired employees as "working machines, putting them to work in countless sweatshops" [1]. Even now, emphasis is often placed more on work hours than the tasks themselves, whereby work hours serve as a common indicator of employee performance [2].…”

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How Much Is Too Much? The Influence of Work Hours on Social Development: An Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries

Liu

Chen

Gan

2019

IJERPH

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Work is a cornerstone of social development. Quantifying the impact on development of fluctuations in work hours is important because longer work hours increasingly seem to be the norm. Based on an integrative perspective that combines individual, organizational, and social factors, we constructed a model using data from 31 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The proposed model was used to test the effect of work hours on different levels and to propose feasible suggestions accordingly. The results show that people in developing countries work more hours per week than those in developed countries, and that males work longer hours than females. Furthermore, regression analysis shows that current work hours are having a negative impact on development in OECD countries, especially in developing countries where people are working longer hours. Longer hours, in other words, do not promote development effectively. Specifically, work hours at the individual level are negatively related to health. At the level of organization, work hours are a reverse indicator of organizational performance, and at the level of society, there is a negative relationship between work hours and economic development. This study provides support for the proposition by the International Labour Organization to reduce work hours, and it facilitates our understanding of the relationship between work hours and social development.

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Sweatshops, Exploitation, and the Case for a Fair Wage

Cited by 23 publications

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Freedom trumps profit: a liberal approach to business ethics

Freedom trumps profit: a liberal approach to business ethics

What’s in a Wage? A New Approach to the Justification of Pay

How Much Is Too Much? The Influence of Work Hours on Social Development: An Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries

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