Multinational managers disowned responsibility while their workers were beaten.

Evidence

Socialized capital kills by remote control. In this case, too, the American managers watched while the South Korean men decimated their women. The managers denied charges. One remark made by a member of Control Data management, as reported in Multinational Monitor, seemed symptomatic in its self-protective cruelty: “Although ‘it’s true’ Chae lost her baby, ‘this is not the first miscarriage she’s had. She’s had two before this.’” — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 545

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Third World women strikers were beaten by male coworkers into abandoning their dispute. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 539; Subordinates act cruelly when authorities take responsibility for the consequences — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 401; Absentee ownership gave managers brutal autonomous power over slaves — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 136 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Effective systems of wrongdoing recruit dutiful subordinates who disown responsibility for harm #corroborates (0.90)
• Corporate wrongdoing stems from diffused responsibility rather than individual guilt #corroborates (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 377
• Subordinates act cruelly when authorities take responsibility for the consequences #corroborates (0.82) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 401
• Absentee ownership gave managers brutal autonomous power over slaves #exemplifies (0.80) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 136
• Corporate performance pressure causes labor violations that companies then externalize as managerial fault #qualifies (0.78) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 291