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    Sweatshop employment relationships are not morally worse ... — Carmelics
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    Sweatshop employment relationships are not morally worse than their absence

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    • 1.Sweatshop employment is consensual between employer and worker
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    • 2.Sweatshop employment is mutually beneficial to employer and worker
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    • 3.A consensual, mutually beneficial interaction cannot be worse than the absence of that interaction (principle of nonworseness)
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    • 1.Consent under conditions of severe economic desperation fails to satisfy the baseline conditions for morally valid consent (Wertheimer, 'Exploitation').
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    • 2.When the choice set itself is unjustly constrained, selecting the least-bad option within it does not render that option morally unproblematic.
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    • 3.The principle of nonworseness applies only when the baseline of comparison is itself just, not when it reflects prior structural injustice.
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    • 1.Mutual benefit is consistent with exploitative relations when one party captures gains far exceeding their proportional contribution (Sample, 'Exploitation').
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    • 2.An interaction that is exploitative in its distribution of benefits can be morally worse than its absence even if both parties prefer it to no interaction.
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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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