Sweatshop boycotts: can't live with them, can't live without them
This article explores the moral permissibility of sweatshop boycotts. We build explicitly on Tomhave and Vopat's (2018) framework for evaluating the moral permissibility of boycotts in general for the specific case of sweatshop labor. We argue that sweatshop boycotts are more likely to be moral...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Business ethics quarterly
Year: 2025, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 280-308 |
| Further subjects: | B
Boycott
B trade sanction B Sweatshop B Uyghur B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift |
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| Summary: | This article explores the moral permissibility of sweatshop boycotts. We build explicitly on Tomhave and Vopat's (2018) framework for evaluating the moral permissibility of boycotts in general for the specific case of sweatshop labor. We argue that sweatshop boycotts are more likely to be morally justified when targeting forced labor compared to free labor and we explore the relevant moral tradeoffs associated with boycotts of free labor sweatshops. We analyze the morality of three cases of sweatshop boycotts - Indonesia in the 1990s, Bangladesh following the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, and the Uyghur region in China - and then discuss how insights from these cases might provide a model to guide activists and business ethicists in analyzing the morality of other sweatshop boycotts. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-3326 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/beq.2024.5 |
