Author: Kate Raworth
Publisher: Oxfam
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780855985233
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Author: Sanchita Banerjee Saxena
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0429771754
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients’ demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh. Using the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as a departure point, and to prevent such tragedies from occurring in the future, this book presents an interdisciplinary analysis to address the disaster which resulted in a radical change in the functioning of the garment industry. The chapters present innovative ways of thinking about solutions that go beyond third-party monitoring. They open up possibilities for a renewed engagement of international brands and buyers within the garment sector, a focus on direct worker empowerment using technology, the role of community-based movements, developing a model of change through enforceable contracts combined with workers movements, and a more productive and influential role for both factory owners and the government. This book makes key interventions and rethinks the approaches that have been taken until now and proposes suggestions for the way forward. It engages with international brands, the private sector, and civil society to strategize about the future of the industry and for those who depend on it for their livelihood. A much-needed review and evaluation of the many initiatives that have been set up in Bangladesh in the wake of Rana Plaza, this book is a valuable addition to academics in the fields of development studies, gender and women’s studies, human rights, poverty and practice, political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, and South Asian studies.
Author: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE.
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789220337103
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in the world's workforce have shifted to homeworking, thereby joining the hundreds of millions of workers who have already been working from home for decades. This report seeks to improve understanding of home work as well as to offer policy guidance that can pave the way to decent work for homeworkers both old and new
Author: Shelley Marshall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-01-17
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0192566008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is driven by a quest to re-regulate work to reduce informality and inequality, and promote a living wage for more people across the world. It presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study in four countries of varying wealth and development, exploring why people become trapped in precarious work. The accounts describe the impact of supply chain governance, trade agreements, internal and between-country migration, legal factors, as well as the socio-economic characteristics and outlooks of the workers. In a unique approach, the chapters describe existing labour regulation measures that have succeeded, but which have to date attracted little scholarly attention. Building on these existing innovations, the book proposes a new international labour law which would incrementally increase the wages of the poor and regulate precarious work in global supply chains.
Author: Daniel Berliner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015-05-29
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1783470372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key groups, including brands, suppliers, governments, workers and consumers.
Author: International Labor Office
Publisher: International Labor Office
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789221296508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The aim of the International Journal of Labour Research is to provide an overview of recent research on labor and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The journal is multidisciplinary and of interest to trade union researchers, labor ministries, and academics in all the relevant disciplines worldwide--industrial relations, sociology, law, economics, and political science. This double issue of the journal explores the causes for the unequal distribution of wealth along global value chains and analyzes mechanisms that can better ensure that the vast wealth the chains generate is more equitably distributed.
Author: Kate MacDonald
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0745679730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains. Drawing on over 300 interviews with farmers, workers, activists, businesses and government officials in garment and coffee sector supply chains, the book shows how the increased involvement of non-state actors in supply chain governance is re-shaping established patterns of global political power, responsibility and accountability. These emerging supply chain governance systems are shown to be multi-layered and politically contested, as transnational governance schemes interact with traditional state governance arrangements in both complementary and conflicting ways. The book’s analysis of changes to the relationship between state and non-state actors within transnational governance processes will be of particular interest to scholars and students of globalisation, global governance and regulation. The Politics of Global Supply Chains also suggests some practical ways by which the effectiveness and accountability of supply chain governance could be strengthened, which will interest both scholars and practitioners in fields of global business regulation and corporate social responsibility. Conclusions are relevant to the business and civil society actors who participate directly in non-state governance schemes, and to state regulators whose distinctive governance capacities could play a much greater role than at present in supporting transnational, non-state governance processes.
Author: Thorsten Göbel
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9783845225852
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