The Anti-Sweatshop Movement: Constructing Corporate Moral Agency in the Global Apparel Industry

Ethics and International Affairs 15 (2):99-115 (2001)
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Through the use of rhetoric linking private economic transactions and international labor and human rights standards, the movement has successfully challenged corporate practices that were previously considered unremarkable.

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10.1111/j.1747-7093.2001.tb00361.x

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The Corporation as a Moral Person.Peter A. French - 1979 - American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (3):207 - 215.
Things of Boundaries.Andrew Abbott - 1995 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 62.
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