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(2018) The moral imagination of Patricia Werhane, Dordrecht, Springer.
Employee rights, moral imagination, and the struggle with universal values
a quick overview of Werhane's contributions to ethics in employment
Norman E. Bowie
pp. 29-44
This paper traces the evolution of Patricia Werhane's theory of employee rights as she moves from the traditional human rights view to a socially constructed view of employee rights. In the course of that evolution, I argue that Werhane has a less robust view of human rights than she did when she first proposed a theory of human rights. I then argue that if Werhane adopted Martha Nussbaum's human capabilities approach, she could have both a traditional account of employee rights and plenty of room for the exercise of moral imagination.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74292-2_3
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Bowie, N. E. (2018)., Employee rights, moral imagination, and the struggle with universal values: a quick overview of Werhane's contributions to ethics in employment, in R. E. Freeman, S. Dmytriyev & A. C. Wicks (eds.), The moral imagination of Patricia Werhane, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 29-44.
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