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UNCC300 - Common Services and commodities

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Australian Catholic University

   

Justice and Change in A Global World (UNCC300)

   

Added on  2020-03-04

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The below document investigates the issues surrounding the ethical production of clothing. The other issues which have been discussed concerning the above problem are as " how the common good is challenged or negated by this issue locally and globally" and " Propose two or three ways to address the challenge to achieve a more in society".

UNCC300 - Common Services and commodities

   

Australian Catholic University

   

Justice and Change in A Global World (UNCC300)

   Added on 2020-03-04

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UNCC2UNCCIt is no doubt that, a typical product cannot be separated from the public point of view. In fact, common good entails services and commodities that are produced the benefit of an ordinarycitizen. For instance, the production of clothing is an activity targeting the public since nobody can be questioned for having worn any type of clothing since preferences vary from one person to the other. Many times the production of clothing has been faced with a myriad of challenges since time immemorial correctly when focusing on ethics that are to be followed for equality andattainment of human dignity. Since the issue has come to light and its itching nature serving as the basis for evaluation, it has become crucial to look for the way forward in an attempt to ensurethat at the end we shall have a just society whereby community engagement and advocacy are addressed to suit the expectation of every citizen. In particular, providing a critique concerning ethics of clothing in line with common good will be crucial in explaining underlying challenges as well as providing ways to address the problem is bound to bring stability in the community.According to the Catholic social teaching principles, a common good should take care of the dignity of work and the right of workers. In connection to ethics observed in the production of clothing, there is a deficit of the principle as mentioned above in that human dignity is put at stake (Hill & Capella, 2014. The findings from clothing factory that collapsed in 2016 in Bangladesh serves as a right example towards highlighting the extent upon which human dignity was undermined. Evidently, around one thousand workers lost their lives while many others sustained serious injuries. Far from the fact that the collapse claimed more than expected lives ofpeople, the proceedings taking place in the factory even before the incident were not satisfactory.Laczniak, Santos, and Klein (2016) posit that severally employees complained of poor pay by their employers in the production of clothing that attracted much attention in several parts of the
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UNCC3globe one of them being the United States of America. Surprisingly, the suspects who were to be held accountable concerning the collapse of the building are still free from conviction, whereas affected families are still claiming for justice.Ilo (2014) postulates that Catholic social teaching principles dictate the essence of solidarity in the production of a typical product. Ideally, production of clothing does not put into account the plight of solidarity in bringing balance to the issues arising from that perspective. In fact, the commotion resulting from the production of clothing point of view tends to have negated from the reality of the matter concerning solidarity. It is a feature of public good to be misused by the participants due to lack of restrictions (Mizzoni, 2014). In that matter, the plight of the workers union is assumed whereby fighting for their rights by conducting p peaceful campaigns is never condoned. That is a clear implication that whether the workers are paid poorly, no one can stand to raise the concern in the fear that they will be sacked and replaced by other needy people seeking for employment. Evidently, the production of clothing is cheap hencecompelling firms to maximize the profits by taking advantage of the employees (Thompson, 2015). In that case, solidarity is undermined to the extent of depriving the society of peace and stability.Catholic social teaching takes care of call to family, community, and participation. It is factual that attainment of right ethics in the production of clothing, the community must play its role fully (Freise & Seuring, 2015). On the contrary, the community seems to have lagged behindin joining hands towards condemning unsatisfactory activities taking place in the clothing industry. For instance, when the rights of workers in the garment industry are exploited, employees might be compelled to remain calm for fear of being sacked. However, the community should participate on their behalf to claim justice. Unfortunately, everyone seems to
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