Sweet Sweatshops - A Reflexion about the Impact of Sweatshops on Countries’ Competitiveness
Sweet Sweatshops - A Reflexion about the Impact of Sweatshops on Countries’ Competitiveness

Summary/Abstract: “Plainly put, first of all, decent people don’t want to live in and support a society that is at variance with what they take to be basic moral principles. (…) The second reason why one’s social system should have moral backing is that society without it is vulnerable to many critical and sceptical influences” (Machan, 2007, p. 10). Tibor R. Machan insists: today, western people want to live in a honourable1 world. Anthropologists like A. Peyrefitte (1995) and Bm. Friedman (2005) demonstrate that the level of morality of a society is closely linked with its level of economic development. The authors describe the way through which economic growth induces the elevation of moral aspiration of individuals, but also of communities. As business is a basement of the economic development, we can induce that it constitutes an important part of our modern social order. In fact many researchers, like K. Weick (2000), consider that, the way it is done, has a great impact on the feeling we experience, about the meaning of our own live. Business seems to be “a profession for human wealthcare” (Machan, 2007). In fact, business ethicists largely consider that business has to be a moral activity… even if they radically disagree about the means to pursue this goal, considering the school of thinking to which they belong.

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