Minimum contract justice : a capabilities perspective on sweatshops and consumer contracts / / Lyn KL Tjon Soei Len

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792741603321
• Autore: Tjon Soei Len Lyn K. L (Lyn Kim Lan), <1984->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-78225-758-6; 1-78225-712-8; 1-78225-711-X; 1-78225-710-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 pages)
• Disciplina: 343.408/7
• Soggetti: Consumer goods - Law and legislation - Moral and ethical aspects - Europe; Foreign trade regulation - Moral and ethical aspects - Europe; Immoral contracts - Europe; Law and globalization - Law and legislation - Moral and ethical aspects - Europe; Offshore assembly industry - Law and legislation - Moral and ethical aspects - Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Minimum contract justice : context and outline -- Minimum contract justice : a capabilities approach -- Sweatshops and consumer contracts -- The potential frontiers of contract justice : a sweatshop case study -- Contractual immorality in Europe -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: The collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh (2013) is one of many cases to invoke critical scrutiny and moral outrage regarding the conditions under which consumer goods sold on our markets are produced elsewhere. In spite of abiding moral concerns, these goods remain popular and consumers continue to buy them. Such transactions for goods made under deplorable production conditions are usually presumed to count as 'normal' market transactions, ie transactions that are recognized as valid consumer-contracts under the ; rules of contract law. Minimum Contract Justice challenges this presumption of normality. It explores the question of how theories of justice bear on such consumer contracts; how should a society treat a transaction for a good made under deplorable conditions elsewhere? This Book defends the position that a society that strives to be minimally just should not lend its power to enforce, support, or encourage transactions that are incompatible with the ability of others elsewhere to live decent human lives. As such, the book introduces a new perspective on the legal debate concerning deplorable production conditions that has settled around ideas of corporate responsibility, and the pursuit of international labour rights