Chapter 16
Monitoring the monitors: a critiqueof corporate third-party labourmonitoring
Dara O'Rourke
INTRODUCTION
One of the key issues surrounding sweatshops today involves the development of systems for monitoring conditions in the thousands of factories around the world which produce garments, shoes, toys and other goods. Governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational firms are all currently working to develop systems and protocols to track production practices and the treatment of workers in far-flung supply chains. Monitoring labour practices and the enforcement of codes of conduct has become a linchpin in efforts ...
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