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Confronting Consumers’ Complicity: Do Confrontations with Causal Responsibility for Sweatshop Labor Raise Moral Obligation?
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WGS.101 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Fall 2014
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Iris Marion Young's "Social Connection Model" of responsibility: Clarifying the meaning of connection
Published 2018“…<p>What responsibilities do individuals have for global injustices, such as sweatshop labour? Iris Marion Young sought to answer this question with her “social connection model” of responsibility. …”
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Digital Labour in Chinese Internet Industries
Published 2014-09-01“…Based on detailed empirical research in China, I argue that the rapid growth of the Internet industries depends on exploiting these Internet workers, such as the workers in Chinese Internet industries—the new ‘sweatshop’ of the digital era. Chinese Internet workers have been subsumed in the global capitalist system as the new ‘sweatshop workers’. …”
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Reaching out to the world
Published 2011“…IT is not often one gets to witness academic history in the making, given that the audacity to propose an idea that would change the foundations of learning and the integrity to follow through with its implementation is a rare thing nowadays - more so when what is proposed is concerned with catering to the bigger picture of public good rather than confined to the sweatshop of profit. …”
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From Antisweatshop to Global Justice to Antiwar: How the new New Left is the Same and Different From the old New Left
Published 2015-08-01“…In each case, the students demands were focused on labor exploitation in the apparel industrythe sweatshop problem.…”
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Apple's iPad City: subcontracting exploitation to China
Published 2015“…This is in part a response to the growing anti-sweatshop movement in the electronics industry from within the United States, Europe, and more recently Greater China (Smith et al. 2006; Litzinger 2013). …”
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Refugees or Migrant Workers? A case study of undocumented Syrians in Russia - LM and Others v Russia (ECtHR 14 March 2016)
Published 2016“…<p>When in April 2014 Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) raided a sweatshop in a town K., three Syrian men were arrested. …”
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Purposeful by design?: a serious game design assessment framework
Published 2016“…To demonstrate how to assess the formal conceptual design of serious games we applied the SGDA Framework to the online games "Sweatshop" (2011) and "ICED" (2008).…”
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Does Compliance Pay? Social Standards and Firm-Level Trade
Published 2019“…The effect is driven largely by the apparel industry—a long-term target of anti-sweatshop social movements—suggesting that activist campaigns can shape patterns of global trade.…”
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Placing the Fourfold: Topology as Environmental Design
Published 2008-06-01“…This approach seeks to question the often myopic view of sustainability as technological upgrade and instrumental efficiency; for example, solar panels on a sweatshop would not demonstrate the depth of attunement that Heidegger’s writings endorse. …”
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Dehumanization increases instrumental violence, but not moral violence
Published 2018“…In attitude surveys, ascribing reduced capacities for cognitive, experiential, and emotional states to victims predicted support for practices where victims are harmed to achieve instrumental goals, including sweatshop labor, animal experimentation, and drone strikes that result in civilian casualties, but not practices where harm is perceived as morally righteous, including capital punishment, killing in war, and drone strikes that kill terrorists. …”
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The retreat of positivistic corporate social responsibility, the rise of sensemaking and reflexive organization change, a rhetoric analysis: the case of volkswagen
Published 2020“…The Enron Scandal, the Nike Sweatshop scandal and the recent Johnson and Johnson baby talc woes are some dishonours that have reshaped the business world and triggered many to reflect the importance of business ethics. …”
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The Commodification of Breast Milk
Published 2015-03-01“…A recent storyline in Showtime’s Shameless portrays a lucrative breast milk sweatshop that operates in the attic of a fictional Chicago bar, and online community forums entice stay-at-home moms to “turn their extra milk into extra cash” at up to $23,000 per year.[6] Indeed, the digital age has made breast milk more accessible; however, online sales are unregulated and do not necessarily screen milk for contamination or tampering, which is often unbeknownst to buyers.[7] In fact, recent studies have uncovered dangerous levels of salmonella, staph, and strep in unscreened breast milk that was sold in several leading online marketplaces, as well as instances of intentional tampering—including the addition of illicit drugs, cow’s milk, or water.[8] Undeniably, casual exchanges or sales of breast milk can be precarious, since there is no way for consumers to verify the quality and safety of unscreened milk. …”
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Sustainability in Australian business : fundamentals principles and practice /
Published 2011“…Key factors and major global events transforming the business environment include climate change, renewable energy, oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico and the Timor Sea, Asian sweatshops, patterns of global poverty, and indigenous rights. …”