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Corporate responsibility and labour rights : codes of conduct in the global economy /

The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a more general shift away from state regulation of transnational corporations towards corporate self-regulation in the areas o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jenkins, Rhys Owen, 1948-, Pearson, Ruth, 1945-, Seyfang, Gill, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2002.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Rhys Jenkins, Ruth Pearson, Gill Seyfang
  • Codes of conduct and global deregulation. The political economy of codes of conduct / Rhys Jenkins
  • Labour rights/corporate responsibilities : the role of ILO labour standards / Jill Murray
  • 'I'll tell you what i want ... ' : women workers and codes of conduct / Ruth Pearson, Gill Seyfang
  • Mapping codes through the value chain : from researcher to detective / Stephanie Barrientos
  • Codes of conduct : perspectives from stakeholders in the global production chains. Beyond codes : lessons from the Pentland experience / Lesley Roberts
  • The international trade union movement and the new codes of conduct / Dwight Justice
  • The emperor's new clothes : what codes mean for workers in the garment industry / Linda Shaw, Angela Hale
  • Can codes of conduct help home based workers? / Lucy Brill
  • Regional perspectives. 'Made in China' : rules and regulations versus codes of conduct in the toy sector / Alice Kwan, Stephen Frost
  • The contradictions in codes : the Sri Lankan experience / Kelly Dent
  • The potential of codes as part of women's organizations' strategies for promoting the rights of women workers : a Central America perspective / Marina Prieto, Angela Hadjipateras, Jane Turner
  • The fox guarding the chicken coop : monitoring garment production in Los Angeles / Laura Dubinsky
  • Practical issues in developing and implementing codes. Working with codes : perspectives from the clean clothes campaign / Nina Ascoly, Ineke Zeldenrust
  • ETI : a multi-stakeholder approach / Mick Blowfield
  • Monitoring the monitors : a critique of third-party labour monitoring / Dara O'Rourke
  • Code monitoring in the informal Fair Trade sector : the experience of Oxfam GN / Rachel Wilshaw.