At the CenterA Case on Ethics and SourcingFriday, Dec. 10, 2010A company needs to buy T-shirts for a promotion. Should they purchase inexpensive shirts from China, where they don't know the wages and working conditions of the employees or the quality of the fabric? Or should they buy from a local, worker- and eco-friendly T-shirt vendor at a much higher cost? Meghan Skarzynski, an SCU senior and Hackworth Fellow at the Ethics Center, created the case, "Easy on the Wallet or Easy on the Earth?" to illustrate the dilemma.
Posted by Miriam Schulman
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