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Author: | Arnold, D.G. Hartman, L.P. |
Title: | Beyond sweatshops: positive deviancy and global labour practices |
Journal: | Business Ethics
2005 : JUL, VOL 14:3, p. 206-222 |
Index terms: | Globalization Industrial relations Labour Legislation |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Disputes on 'sweatshop' labour (hereafter as: s-shop-lab.) practices are at the core of contemporary debates regarding globalization. Critics seek regulations (here as: regs.) restricting the use of s-shop-lab., whereas economists retort that such regs. will harm the world's poor. This article develops a new account of positive ethical deviancy arguing that this view is preferable to other recent accounts of positive deviancy (here as: pos-dev.) in the literature. The concept of pos-dev. is applied to global labour practices, using recent field studies of multinational corporation (MNC) factories in developing nations as a basis for arguing that MNCs are capable of voluntarily respecting the basic rights of workers while remaining economically competitive. |
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