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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450659703321

Autore

Jenkins Rhys Owen <1948->

Titolo

Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights : Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, Oct. 2002

Florence, : Taylor & Francis Group [distributor]

ISBN

1-280-47584-6

1-84977-088-3

1-136-56890-5

9786610475841

600-00-0263-7

1-4175-4269-1

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

331.25/98

Soggetti

Social responsibility of business

Industries - Self-regulation

Industrial relations

Employee rights

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy; Copyright; Contents; Acronyms and abbreviations; List of figures, tables and boxes; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; PART ONE: CODES OF CONDUCT AND GLOBAL DEREGULATION; Chapter 2: The political economy of codes of conduct; Chapter 3: Labour rights/corporate responsibilities: the role of ILO labour standards; Chapter 4: 'I'll tell you what I want ...': women workers and codes of conduct; Chapter 5: Mapping codes through the value chain: from researcher to detective

PART TWO: CODES OF CONDUCT - PERSPECTIVES FROM STAKEHOLDERS IN THE GLOBAL PRODUCTION CHAINS Stakeholder perspectives: 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 workers in 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; Practical issues in developing and implementing codes: Chapter 14: Working with codes: perspectives from the Clean Clothes Campaign; Chapter 15: ETI: a multi-stakeholder approach; 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: Useful web sitesIndex

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