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Libertarians often claim that a just price is whatever people are willing to pay in the absence of force or fraud. So, if sweatshop workers are willing to sell their labor for close to subsistence wages, that’s fair as long as no one lied to them about the terms of their employment or held a [...]
Chris Bertram, Corey Robin and Alex Gourevitch have given us a lot to think about in their recent essay at Crooked Timber. There’s a lot I want to say about it. Rather than saving it all up for one large post though, I thought I’d take things one point at a time. And I want [...]
My newest video at LearnLiberty.org is up now, on sweatshops and the poor.
Obviously, there are a lot of complexities that I wasn’t able to go into in a 5 minute video. I address some of those complexities in this blog post on [...]
Corey Robin and Chris Bertram have both recently claimed that libertarianism is insufficiently responsive to concerns about private power – especially the power employers wield over their employees. If libertarians care about individual liberty and freedom from coercion, then why focus exclusively on the ways in which big government [...]
What’s wrong with an employer saying to an employee (who needs the job, has bills to pay and kids to feed): “If you want to keep your job, you’d better let me fuck you”?
Rather like the wrongness of slavery, this strikes me as being one of those cases where [...]
To start off: Why should libertarians be bothered about, specifically, rights to natural resources?1 Why single out these entitlements, rather than looking at property rights in general and asking how any of them can be justified, if they can be justified at all? After all, the domain of distributive justice – of moral [...]
Can you sell your future self into slavery?
By Jessica Flanigan On April 13, 2012 · 46 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Exploitation, Libertarianism, Social Justice
Liberty of contract is a really important right, and legal restrictions on liberty of contract are offensively paternalistic, and are sometimes racist or sexist attempts to entrench the advantage of existing economic stakeholders. Libertarians are often distinguished from progressives based on their opposition to legal restrictions of economic liberties, such as the decision to
Workplace Coercion
By Jessica Flanigan On March 12, 2012 · 49 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Exploitation, Left-libertarianism, Rights Theory
Coercion is a really difficult concept to define. When theorists say things like “the workplace is a site of coercion” what does that mean, and what should we do about it? One way of understanding coercion is in a non-moralized way. This strategy says that an act [...]
Sweatshops, Exploitation, and Neglect
By Matt Zwolinski On November 8, 2011 · 18 Comments · In Current Events, Exploitation, Social Justice
Ari Kohen responds to my recent post on sweatshops with a few lingering concerns. Among other things, he raises important questions about whether the evils of sweatshop labor can be compensated for by increased charitable giving, and about whether we shouldn’t recognize that American companies have [...]
Shouldn’t Sweatshops Do More?
By Matt Zwolinski On November 3, 2011 · 43 Comments · In Current Events, Exploitation, Social Justice
Sophisticated critics of sweatshop labor recognize that sweatshop jobs make workers better off, but argue that sweatshops should do more to improve the lives of workers – that they should make them even better off by paying higher wages, or providing better working conditions.
In a thoughtful post at Running Chicken, Ari Kohen raises precisely this objection to
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