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Recent events in Bangladesh have brought moral questions surrounding sweatshops into the spotlight again. And many consumers are wondering whether they might be doing something wrong by purchasing goods that are made in Bangladeshi textile firms. Some are calling for a boycott of clothing companies like [...]
On Tuesday, August 7th, at 8PM EST, I’ll be live at LearnLiberty.org, answering questions about the ethics and politics of sweatshop labor. You can find more information and RSVP at the LearnLiberty website. Be sure to check out the Facebook page for the event for more information and conversation.
We’ll [...]
Roderick Long raises some important concerns about my defense of sweatshops. I’m short on time, preparing for the symposium on John Tomasi’s book next week, but I wanted [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Helping the Poor: Sacrifice, Intentions, and Outcomes
By Matt Zwolinski On November 3, 2011 · 39 Comments · In Consequentialism, Exploitation, Social Justice
My friend David Sobel argues that even if sweatshops are benefiting the global poor, this doesn’t mean that they are fulfilling whatever obligations they might have to aid the less fortunate:
This activity on the part of corporations, I think it safe to assume, is motivated purely by economic self-interest on the part of the corporation. [...]
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
Answering the Left-Libertarian Critique of Sweatshops
By Matt Zwolinski On October 24, 2011 · 113 Comments · In Current Events, Exploitation, Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism, Social Justice
Ben Powell and I have a new paper coming out in the Journal of Business Ethics in which we defend what we take to be the mainstream libertarian position on sweatshops against some critiques that have emerged in the recent academic literature.* That position (which I have [...]
Which is Worse: A Sweatshop, or You?
By Matt Zwolinski On June 6, 2011 · 113 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Exploitation, Social Justice
People say that sweatshops exploit their workers. People say the same thing about men who hire prostitutes, price gougers, couples who enter commercial surrogacy contracts, payday loan operations, and people who buy kidneys from the poor (or would do so if it were legal).
Exploitation, as we’ve discussed here before, [...]
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