Philosophy 2074F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sweatshop, Living Wage, Market Failure
15 Apr 2016
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Us companies should pay the same abroad as they pay in us. Eliminates funcion of the market in seing wages. Wage that allows workers to live in dignity as a human being. No employment if not at a living wage . Criics complain of a market failure that prevents this approach from working. Condiion in counies are so poor that free choice is meaningless. Minimum wage levels are someimes below poverty level. Host governments do not enforce their own safety and minimum wage laws. Some apparel companies employ contractors who use child labour. Some host countries deny their ciizens basic rights. Sill, wages paid in sweatshops are oten much higher than alternaive employment. Real issue according to criics is basic human rights and needs. Workers are so beaten down that they don"t realize their own exploitaion. Workers face such miserable alternaive employment they accept a horrible choice.
