Chapter 14

Working with codes: perspectivesfrom the Clean Clothes Campaign

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Nina Ascoly and Ineke Zeldenrust

INTRODUCTION

Since the main demand of the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is that retailers and the major brand-name companies live up to their responsibility to ensure that garments are produced in decent conditions, it has always been important for us to be clear about how we define good working conditions. The principles that have guided the CCC are the conventions issued by the International Labour Organization (ILO), and these figure prominently in our ‘model code’. Compared to just five years ago, the number of codes of conduct today ...

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