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Ferguson, Benjamin and Ostmann, Florian (2018) Sweatshops and consumer choices. Economics and Philosophy, 34 (3). pp. 295-315. doi:10.1017/S026626711800010X
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S026626711800010X
Abstract
We consider a case where consumers are faced with a choice between sweatshop-produced clothing and identical clothing produced in high-income countries. We argue that it is morally better for consumers to purchase clothing produced in sweatshops and then to compensate sweatshop workers for the difference between their actual wage and a fair wage than it is for them either to purchase the sweatshop clothing without this compensatory transfer or to purchase clothing produced in high-income countries.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Economics and Philosophy | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0266-2671 | ||||||
| Official Date: | November 2018 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 October 2019 | ||||||
| Volume: | 34 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 295-315 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S026626711800010X | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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