Several high profile instances (such as the conditions in which foreign workers produced American athletic wear) in the late twentieth century highlighted the need for governmental regulation in already) industrialized society to prevent exporting child labor exploitation and industrial pollution along with the opportunity for employment to parts of the world where economic conditions make even the most difficult and potentially dangerous work an attractive option to perpetual unemployment and starvation (Hollender, 1990).
Globalization represents the opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people, particularly in parts of the Far East, who are still living in conditions that have long been considered unacceptable in Western society. It also represent the opportunity to exploit those same people through the unconcerned pursuit of financial profit. The obvious moral imperative incumbent on the governments of wealthier nations...
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