Case report

Consumer Complicity and Labor Exploitation

Gillian Brock orcid.org/0000-0003-1430-5449 ; University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract

Are consumers in high-income countries complicit in labor exploitation when they buy good produced in sweatshops? To focus attention we consider cases of labor exploitation such as those of exposing workers to very high risks of irreversible diseases, for instance, by failing to provide adequate safety equipment. If I purchase a product made under such conditions, what is my part in this exploitation? Is my contribution one of complicity that is blameworthy? If so, what ought I to do about such participation? I address these questions at first by applying a comprehensive account recently offered by Chiara Lepora and Robert Goodin, and analyzing the results in light of some important empirical issues.

Keywords

Consumer; complicity; labor exploitation: Lepora; Goodin; wrongdoing and exploitation

Hrčak ID:

180027

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/180027

Publication date:

11.4.2016.

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