Readings for 6/1-6/3

For next week, you should read all of the readings under the "Consumer Safety" section. Don't worry, all of the articles except the Piker article are 1-2 pages long.

Readings 5/27-5/29

5/27/2009 We'll be continuing Desjardins "Corporate Environmental Responsibility" from Friday

5/29/2009 Norton "The natural environment as a salient stakeholder: non-anthropocentrism, ecosystem stability and the financial markets"

Your final paper is due 6/5/2009
Your final quiz will be 6/5/2009
[6/5/2009 is the last day of class]

*Updated Reading Assignment*

We'll continue with Shrader-frechette on Monday.

We're going to skip the section on consumer safety for now to ensure we cover everything in the section on business and the environment. So, you do not need to read the Piker article on liability(or any of the other articles in that section). We'll come back to this section at the end of the term if we have time.

The quiz will be on Wednesday May 20, and anything under the "Business and Employees" section will be fair game.

Helpful Links

Moyer published all the documents cited in "Trade Secrets" on his website for the film.

Here is a link to NIOSH pocket guide to chemical hazards.

Here is a link to OSHA.

Remaining Quizzes

We'll have two more quizzes for this course (our third and fourth quizzes).

The third quiz will fall in the week of May 18-22. Anything under the "Business and Employees" Section, and the "Consumer Safety" section (including a film we might watch) will be fair game for this quiz.

The fourth and final quiz will be on the last day of class, June 5th. Anything under the "Business and the Environment" section, and the "(Non) Compliance with Ethical Standards" section will be fair game for this quiz.

Sweatshops Links

Nike to the Rescue? (you need to be on a university computer, or logged onto the proxy server to access this)

"Made in China"

Fair Labor Association

Nichoals Kristof's recent pro-sweatshop Op-Ed

"In Praise of Cheap Labor" (an article in which economist Paul Krugman argues in favor of sweatshops)