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Working Conditions: Safety and Sweatshops
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This article examines issues concerning working conditions and worker safety in the so-called sweatshops. It discusses the extent of employers' obligations to protect workers from workplace hazards and evaluates whether they may be mitigated by other obligations or interests. Two general duties concerning safety play a key role in this analysis: the obligation to inform workers in advance regarding workplace hazards and the obligation to ensure minimum health and safety conditions. It rejects various defences of sweatshops and defends the view a respectful treatment of workers requires that they be paid a weekly wage consistent with human dignity.
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“So, what makes an act of exploitation morally objectionable? For an act of exploitation to be awrongful kind, it must involve disrespect toward the object of exploitation (Arnold, 2010; Wood, 1995).”
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- Authors
- Arnold, D. G.
- Affiliations
- Philosophy, University of North Carolina
- Corresponding author
- Arnold, Denis G.
- ORCID
- Arnold, Denis G.
- Venue
- The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2010-01-02
- Pages
- 628-654
- OpenAlex
- W2623366331
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 13.78
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Labor and Employment Law
- Social Sciences › Law › Labor Law and Work Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Development › Software Engineering and Design Patterns
- Keywords
- sweatshops, working conditions, occupational safety, employer obligations, occupational hazards, human dignity, fair wages, labor law
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