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Corporate responsibility and labour rights : codes of conduct in the global economy / edited by Rhys Jenkins, Ruth Pearson and Gill Seyfang.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights (Online)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social responsibility of business.
- Industries--Self-regulation.
- Industries.
- Industrial relations.
- Employee rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Other Title:
- Corporate responsibility and labor rights
- Place of Publication:
- London : Earthscan Publications, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Annotation 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 of labour and environmental standards and human rights. This work provides a critical perspective on the growth and significance of corporate codes with a particular focus on working conditions and labour rights. It brings together work by academics, practitioners and activists.
- Contents:
- Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy; Copyright; Contents; Acronyms and abbreviations; List of figures, tables and boxes; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; PART ONE: CODES OF CONDUCT AND GLOBAL DEREGULATION; Chapter 2: The political economy of codes of conduct; Chapter 3: Labour rights/corporate responsibilities: the role of ILO labour standards; Chapter 4: 'I'll tell you what I want ...': women workers and codes of conduct; Chapter 5: Mapping codes through the value chain: from researcher to detective
- PART TWO: CODES OF CONDUCT - PERSPECTIVES FROM STAKEHOLDERS IN THE GLOBAL PRODUCTION CHAINS Stakeholder perspectives: Chapter 6: Beyond codes: lessons from the Pentland experience; Chapter 7: The international trade union movement and the new codes of conduct; Chapter 8: The emperor's new clothes: what codes mean for workers in the garment industry; Chapter 9: Can codes of conduct help home-based workers?; Chapter 10: 'Made in China': rules and regulations versus codes of conduct in the toy sector; Chapter 11: The contradictions in codes: the Sri Lankan experience
- Chapter 12: The potential of codes as part of women's organizations' strategies for promoting the rights of women workers: a Central America perspective Chapter 13: The fox guarding the chicken coop: garment industry monitoring in Los Angeles; Practical issues in developing and implementing codes: Chapter 14: Working with codes: perspectives from the Clean Clothes Campaign; Chapter 15: ETI: a multi-stakeholder approach; Chapter 16: Monitoring the monitors: a critique of third-party labour monitoring; Chapter 17: Code monitoring in the informal Fair Trade sector: the experience of Oxfam GB
- Appendix I: Useful web sitesIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610475841
- 9781280475849
- 1280475846
- 9781849770880
- 1849770883
- 9781136568909
- 1136568905
- 9786000002633
- 6000002637
- 9781417542697
- 1417542691
- OCLC:
- 466434234
- Publisher Number:
- 9781853839306
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