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Confronting Consumers’ Complicity: Do Confrontations with Causal Responsibility for Sweatshop Labor Raise Moral Obligation? Cover

Confronting Consumers’ Complicity: Do Confrontations with Causal Responsibility for Sweatshop Labor Raise Moral Obligation?

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|Feb 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.775 | Journal eISSN: 2397-8570
Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 2, 2022
Accepted on: Jan 7, 2024
Published on: Feb 27, 2024
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