Philosophy 2074F/G Chapter Notes -Proletariat, Comparative Advantage, Living Wage
1 May 2013
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In recent years, there has been a dramatic growth in the contracting out of production by companies in the industrialized countries to suppliers in developing countries. The contracting arrangements have drawn intense fire from critics usually labor and human rights activists. Instead of making a fight of it, the companies have sued for peace in order to protect their principal asset their image. This paper takes up the issue of what the appropriate wages and labor standards in international sweatshops. Home country standards: it might be argued (and in rare cases has been) that international corporations have an ethical duty to pay the same wages and provide the same labor standards regardless of where they operate. Living wage standard: it has been proposed that an international corporation should, at a minimum, pay a living wage should allow the worker to live in dignity as a human being. Codes are the result of a blend of humanitarian and pragmatic impulses.
