Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Content
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part One: Codes of Conduct And Global Deregulation
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Part Two: Codes of Conduct – Perspectives From Stakeholders in The Global Production Chains
- 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 workersin 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
- Chapter 14 Working with codes: perspectives from the Clean Clothes Campaign
- Chapter 15 ETI: a multi-stakeholder approach – Mick Blowfield
- 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
- Index
Product information
- Title: Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136568893
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