Sweatshops

As corporate executives wine and dine in expensive restaurants before returning to their palatial estates, women, children and others in foreign countries work in their offshore factories in deplorable conditions for subminimum wages known as "sweatshops." As Landauro (2003) maintains, "A sweatshop is any business that uses child labor, pays substandard wages, or creates an unsafe workplace" (8). Globalization has provided big corporations with the opportunity to take advantage of inexpensive labor in such sweatshops, where workers often toil 50-80 hours per week, in unsafe conditions, with many among them women and children.

Such sweatshops are highly unethical and immoral according to utilitarian philosophy. Utilitarianism argues that

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