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Achieving workers' rights in the global economy /

"The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1,100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just wait...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Appelbaum, Richard P. (Editor ), Lichtenstein, Nelson (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Achieving workers' rights in the global economy / Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein
  • Self Governance : The Challenges and Limitations of Corporate Social Responsibility. Outsourcing horror : why apparel workers are still dying, one hundred years after Triangle Shirtwaist / Scott Nova and Chris Wegemer
  • From public regulation to private enforcement : how CSR became managerial orthodoxy / Richard P. Appelbaum
  • Corporate social responsibility : moving from checklist monitoring to contractual obligtion? / Jill Esbenshade
  • The twiligt of CSR : life and death illuminated by fire / Robert J.S. Ross
  • Governance of Global Production Networks. The demise of tripartite governance and the rise of corporate social responsibility regime / Nelson Lichenstein
  • Deepening compliance? : potential for multistakeholder interaction in monitoring labor standards in the value chains of Brazil's apparel industry / Anne Caroline Posthuma and Renato Bignami
  • Law and the global sweatshop problem / Brishen Rogers
  • Assessing the risks of participation in global value chains / Gary Gereffi and Xubei Luo
  • Prospects for Workers' Rights in China. Apple, Foxconn, and China's new working class / Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, and Mark Selden
  • Labor transformation in China : voices from the frontlines / Katie Quan
  • CSR and trade union elections at foreign-owned chinese factories / Anita Chan
  • A Way Forward?. The sustainable apparel coalistion and Higg Index : a new approach for the apparel and footwear industry / Jason Kibbey
  • Learning from the past : the relevance of twentieth-century New York jobbers' agreements for twenty-first-century global supply chains / Mark Anner, Jennnifer Bair, and Jeremy Blasi
  • Workers of the world unite! : the strategy of the international union league for brand responsibility / Jeff Hermanson.