Unethical Business Practice

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This paper discusses the unethical side of business, in particular the ethics facing companies who sell products that have been produced under sweatshop conditions. It examines the exploitation of sweatshops and the surrounding scandals. It also evaluates a code of ethics that The American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences has set up that could serve as a model for all companies, including those corporations and multinationals dealing with Third World suppliers. The paper includes an appendix of relevant articles.

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"Foreign sweatshops using child labor create particular problems for American companies outsourcing to such companies. The issue is not simply the ethics of sweatshop conditions but also the ethics of child labor, which may mean something different in the foreign country than it means in the United States. Some point out that this is an issue that makes the question of social responsibility more difficult to assess, given that a boycott of goods produced by child labor could make conditions in these Third World countries even worse (Razzi, 1995, 46). American companies should adhere to a code of ethics that prevents them from ending up in the middle of the sort of scandals noted above."

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