Alberto Gutierrez
•Large profit at minimal cost
•Poor working conditions
•No concern about employees
•Employees work long hours for little pay
As of January 1st 2002 AMERICAN APPAREL EMPLOYEES will have
Access to the following benefits :
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Medical Insurance
Life Insurance
A living wage
ESL Classes
Heated and ventilated workspace
Subsidized lunches
Massages
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Sweatshop
Non-sweatshop
(AA)
Consequentialismutilitarianism: An action is
right if it promotes the best
consequences.
The best consequences are
those in which happiness is
maximized.
Best for sweatshop
Company is happy,
owners, not workers. Un- employees are happy.
utilitarian.
Deontology: An action is
right if it is in accordance
with a moral rule or
principle.
Not in accordance with
any morals.
Virtue Ethics: An action is
right if it is what a virtuous
agent—someone who lives a
good life—would do in the
circumstances.
Virtuous people would
Treating people right..
most likely not sacrifice
Very virtuous.
the wellbeing of others to
enhance theirs.
"Do unto others as you
would have them do unto
you."
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“Prisoner’s Dilemma”
A group whose members pursue rational
self-interest may all end up worse off than a
group whose members act contrary to
rational self-interest.
if the payoffs are not assumed to represent
self-interest, a group whose members
rationally pursue any goals may all meet less
success than if they had not rationally
pursued their goals individually.