Philosophy 2074F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sweatshop, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Comparative Advantage
13 Dec 2020
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Note that not once in this paper were the poor working conditions justified. Setting the context: home country and host country norms. The norms of the various countries in which multinational companies do business are often very different from their home country. Companies, white house team, and labor standards advocates made peace by coming up with a set of voluntary codes which if abided by will entitle companies to use a "no sweat" label. Do their workers have the freedom of alternatives or to say no: says for donaldson, full (or near full) employment is a pre-requisite if workers are to make sound choices regarding workplace safety: "average level of unemployment in developing countries is 40%, a figure which has frustrated the application of neoclassical economic principles to the international economy on a score of issues. With full employment, market forces will workers to make tradeoffs between job opportunities using safety as a variable.
