Sweatshops, exploitation, and moral responsibility

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 605-619

  Mayer, Robert ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 77951703890     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2007.00401.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. On foreign and domestic sweatshops, see Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum, Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000);
2. Ellen Rosen, Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U. S. Apparel Industry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002);
3. Daniel Bender and Richard Greenwald, eds., Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2003);
4. and Robert Ross, Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004).
5. Chris Meyers, "Wrongful Beneficence: Exploitation and Third World Sweatshops", Journal of Social Philosophy 35, no. 3(2004):319-33.
6. For a useful analysis of this concept see Robert Goodin, "Exploiting a Situation and Exploiting a Person", in Modern Theories of Exploitation, ed. Andrew Reeve (London: Sage, 1987), 166-200.
7. Robert Mayer, "Guestworkers and Exploitation", Review of Politics 67, no. 2(2005):311-34.
8. In this paragraph and the ones that follow I draw on my argument in "What's Wrong with Exploitation?" Journal of Applied Philosophy 24, no. 2(2007):137-50.
9. On mutually advantageous exploitation see Alan Wertheimer, Exploitation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).
10. Contrast the following analysis with Alan Carling, "Exploitation, Extortion and Oppression", Political Studies 35, no. 2(1987):173-88.
11. Meyers, "Wrongful Beneficence", 320.
12. Joel Feinberg, Harmless Wrongdoing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 211.
13. For an analysis of rescue obligations see Peter Unger, Living High and Letting Die (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 24-61.
14. Daniel Attas, "The Case of Guest Workers: Exploitation, Citizenship and Economic Rights", Res Publica 6, no. 1(2000):76.
15. Alan Wertheimer, Coercion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987), 222.
16. Bonacich, Behind the Label, 186, 189.
17. Karl Marx, Capital: Volume One (New York: International Publishers, 1967), 186-98.
18. Goodin, "Exploiting a Situation and Exploiting a Person", 184.
19. Michael Barbaro, "Wal-Mart Forecasts Big Season", New York Times, November 15, 2005, C8.
20. Wertheimer, Exploitation, 298.
21. Liam Murphy, Moral Demands in Nonideal Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
22. On the moral structure of dirty-hands dilemmas see Michael Stocker, Plural and Conflicting Values (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).
23. For another example of the dirty-hands dilemma posed by exploitative practices see Mayer, "Guestworkers and Exploitation", 327-34.
24. Ross, Slaves to Fashion, 20, 26.
25. on competition in the retail apparel sector see Rosen, Making Sweatshops, 188-200.
26. For accounts of Nike's labor practices see Pamela Varley, "Nike in Indonesia: Unraveling the Controversy", in The Sweatshop Quandary: Corporate Responsibility on the Global Frontier, ed. Pamela Varley (Washington, D. C.: Investor Responsibility Research Center, 1998), 251-80;
27. Denis Arnold and Laura Hartman, "Moral Imagination and the Future of Sweatshops", Business and Society Review 108, no. 4(2003):425-61;
28. and Jill Esbenshade, Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers, and the Global Apparel Industry (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2004), 150-54, 190-91.