Exploitation without Exchange: An Analysis of Consumer Exploitation of Sweatshop Workers.
Extant accounts of exploitation typically focus on either an exchange or interaction between persons, or on exploitative systems (i.e., global capitalism). We propose a new account of exploitation that focuses instead on the benefits an exploiter enjoys which are had at the expense of another, the e...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 221 - 231 |
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Fall2019
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