Given what we know about global poverty, what ethical obligation do multinational corporations have to eliminate the use of sweatshop labor?
This inquiry explores the economic factors and tensions that contribute to global poverty and the use of sweatshop labor. Questions to be addressed include the following: How is poverty defined? What are the effects of global poverty? What are the problems with using sweatshop labor? Why do large corporations use sweatshop labor to produce goods? What are the benefits and problems to reducing sweatshop labor?