Moral duty, individual responsibility, and sweatshop exploitation

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 620-626

  Meyers, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

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EID: 84255195020     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2007.00402.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. These range from enthusiastically supporting sweatshops-e.g., Nicholas D. Kristof and Shry Wu Dunn, "Two Cheers for Sweatshops", New York Times Magazine (September 24, 2000): 70-71-to merely excusing the practice, as Mayer does.
2. Denis G. Arnold and Norman E. Bowie, "Sweatshops and Respect for Persons", Business Ethics Quarterly 13(2003):221-42.
3. For a detailed discussion and application of the formalized version of the golden rule, see my "Why (Most) Rational People Must Disapprove of the Invasion of Iraq", Social Theory & Practice 32(April 2006):249-68.
4. Peter Singer, "Rich and Poor", in Practical Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 166-79.
5. Robert Mayer, "Sweatshops, Exploitation, and Moral Resporsibility", Journal of Social Philosophy, this issue: 605-619, at 616, citing Liam Murphy.
6. This is essentially the argument of Ian Maitland, "The Great Non-debate over International Sweatshops", British Academy of Management Annual Conference Proceedings, September 1997
7. reprinted in Ethical Theory and Business, 6th ed., ed. Tom Beauchamp and Norman Bowie (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001), 593-605.
8. I addressed this question in my earlier article "Wrongful Beneficence", Journal of Social Philosophy 35 (2004): p319-33, though my treatment was inadequate.
9. See for example, Campbell McConnell and Stanley Brue, Microeconomics, 16th ed. (Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2005), 269.