Pub Date : 2019-10-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198837411.003.0014
Mathias Risse, G. Wollner
Another aspect of the economic activities of transnationals concerns how they operate in contexts characterized by dispersed responsibility. One such context is the outsourcing of economic activity. Companies hire other companies or individuals not directly under their control to do certain tasks. This final chapter explores under which circumstances companies can deny moral responsibility for wrongdoings of suppliers or sub-contractors, and whether outsourcing might be morally problematic even in cases where suppliers or sub-contractors do not commit any wrongs. Another context characterized by dispersed responsibility is where corporations must make choices related to operating under authoritarian regimes. This chapter applies the “moral force of exploitation”—reasoning to explain when corporations may, or should not, cooperate.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198837411.003.0012
Mathias Risse, G. Wollner
The question of a just wage has presumably been contentious ever since there have been wage relations, and philosophical thought on the subject reaches back hundreds of years. Yet the subject remains elusive. This chapter discusses wage payments through the lens of trade justice. It explains how questions about wages arise as a topic of trade justice to begin with, examines prominent ways of thinking about wages, and offers an exploitation-based perspective. While none of the prominent competing perspectives fully succeeds, they capture insights a convincing perspective should accommodate. Deploying the conception of exploitation as power-induced failure of reciprocity shows how certain wages might plausibly be criticized as exploitatively low.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198837411.003.0013
Mathias Risse, G. Wollner
In addition to setting wages, transnational corporations also regularly confront choices about where to locate facilities. This can involve uprooting production to move elsewhere. There is basically no normative work on what issues arise here. This chapter dismisses some unconvincing ways of faulting relocation decisions and explains how complaints about relocation are plausibly understood as complaints about exploitation. It proposes conditions under which relocation is exploitative and explains what policy measures may still render it all-things-considered permissible. At issue is both the decision to relocate from the corporation’s country of origin (often a choice to relocate from the developed to the developing world) and relocation between foreign countries.
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