9 Individuals and Societies: Marketplace Morality

Must-Read Overview:

• Business Ethics, via Gale Global Issues (pw: info)

Review these to get topic ideas:

• Ethics Unwrapped, via U of Texas, McCombs School of Business
• Case Studies, via Santa Clara University
• Ethical Companies, via Trade Ready
• Business Scandals, via Western Governors University (WGU)

Next, view the sources below to get more topic ideas

Your topic will combine an industry and at least one issue. You will also want to notice particular regions or countries that are relevant to your topic.

You have two options for your in-class writing:

1. A letter to a company or industry head
2. A speech to workers in a company or industry 

Task Sheet with full directions, due dates, and rubric

Food & Beverage & Agriculture

• Coca-Cola, via Open Journal of Social Sciences
• Rose-picking industry, via The Guardian
• Child Labor and the chocolate industry, via Food Empowerment Project

Transportation

• Elon Musk & Tesla, via International Policy Digest
• Electric Cars, via Time Magazine
• DRC Miners toil for Electric Cars, via The Guardian
• Mica Mining in India, via Science Times

Technology / Social Media

• Elon Musk and Twitter, via Harvard Law Today
• How Trump consultants exploited the Facebook data of millions, via The New York Times

Healthcare & Medicine (Pharmaceuticals)

• Infected Blood Scandal, via UK House of Parliament 
• Ethical challenges in medical research: Henrietta Lacks, via Association of Women in Science (AWS)

Sports / Entertainment

• FIFA World Cup in Qatar, via Human Rights Watch
• Taylor Swift and the top polluters Department, via Carbon Market Watch

Textiles / Manufacturing

• Gucci in China, via Asian Journal of Business Ethics
• Are Clothes Made in Bangladesh Ethical? via Project CECE
• Have working conditions for textile workers in Bangladesh improved? via Database of Business Ethics

Issues: Choose one or more

• Environmental Issues
• Animal Cruelty
• Human Rights
• Economic Hardship
• Working Conditions
• Mental Wellbeing

Chat about the INDUSTRY you've chosen and any of the ISSUES above.

Use what you learn from the chat to find reliable sources. Note keywords to use for advanced searching.

Use AI tools to expand the knowledge you have gained from preliminary reading.

Ask extension questions to dig into what you don't know about yet.

Use AI output to search for actual sources you can use as evidence in your argument. 

At no time do you cite AI output. It is merely a tool to support and enhance your thinking.

• Flint Friendly AI - get information and ideas about any topic
• Perplexity - search for articles, save the thread, chat about information you want to understand better

Save all chats that you have found helpful.

Saved chats document your thinking process and can be used to authenticate your work later on.

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