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    Firms operating sweatshops can and should do more for swe... — Carmelics
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    Firms operating sweatshops can and should do more for sweatshop workers

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    • 1.Sweatshop owners and workers are engaged in a relationship that obligates the parties to meet certain standards of conduct
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    • 2.Exploitation falls below the standards of conduct required by that relationship
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    • 3.Grounds of fairness or beneficence impose additional obligations on firms toward workers
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    • 1.Voluntary exchange between consenting parties is presumptively just when it improves the position of both parties relative to their alternatives.
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    • 2.Sweatshop wages, however low by global standards, typically exceed available local alternatives, making workers genuinely better off by their own assessment.
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    • 3.Imposing additional obligations on firms beyond contractual terms paternalistically overrides workers' expressed preferences and rational agency.
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that holdings are just if they arise from voluntary transfers, regardless of the pattern of distribution that results.
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    • 2.Demanding firms redistribute surplus to workers beyond agreed wages constitutes a forced transfer that violates the separateness of persons and property rights.
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    • 3.The relationship between employer and employee generates no special fairness obligations beyond those explicitly contracted, since no prior shared cooperative scheme exists.
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    There has also been a robust debate about whether workers in sweatshops are paid too little. Some say ‘no’ (Powell & Zwolinski 2012; Zwolinski 2007). They say that sweatshops wages, while low by standards in developed countries, are not low by the standards of the countries in which the sweatshops are located. This explains why people choose to work in a sweatshop; it is the best offer they have. Efforts to increase artificially the wages of sweatshop workers, according to these writers, is
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