Achieving Workers Rights in the Global Economy 1st Edition by Richard Appelbaum, Nelson Lichtenstein ISBN 978-1501700040 1501700049

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ISBN 10:  1501700049

ISBN 13:  978-1501700040

Author:  Richard P. Appelbaum, Nelson Lichtenstein

The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production.

Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chains―such as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at their heads―generate at least half of all world trade and include hundreds of millions of workers at thousands of contract manufacturers from Shenzhen and Shanghai to Sao Paulo and San Pedro Sula. This book offers an incisive analysis of this pernicious system along with essays that outline a set of practical guides to its radical reform.

Table of contents: 

Part I: SELF-GOVERNANCE: THE CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist

From Public Regulation to Private Enforcement: How CSR Became Managerial Orthodoxy

Corporate Social Responsibility: Moving from Checklist Monitoring to Contractual Obligation?

The Twilight of CSR: Life and Death Illuminated by Fire

Part II: GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS
The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime

Deepening Compliance?: Potential for Multistakeholder Interaction in Monitoring Labor Standards in the Value Chains of Brazil’s Apparel Industry

Law and the Global Sweatshop Problem

Assessing the Risks and Opportunities of Participation in Global Value Chains

Part III: PROSPECTS FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS IN CHINA
Apple, Foxconn, and China’s New Working Class

Labor Transformation in China: Voices from the Frontlines

CSR and Trade Union Elections at Foreign-Owned Chinese Factories

Part IV: A WAY FORWARD?
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg Index: A New Approach for the Apparel and Footwear Industry

Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers’ Agreements for Twenty-First-Century Global Supply Chains

Workers of the World, Unite!: The Strategy of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility

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