Achieving workers' rights in the global economy

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Achieving workers' rights in the global economy

edited by Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein

ILR Press, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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Introduction: Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein Part I SELF-GOVERNANCE: THE CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 1. Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist Scott Nova and Chris Wegemer 2. From Public Regulation to Private Enforcement: How CSR Became Managerial Orthodoxy Richard P. Appelbaum 3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Moving from Checklist Monitoring to Contractual Obligation? Jill Esbenshade 4. The Twilight of CSR: Life and Death Illuminated by Fire Robert J. S. Ross Part II GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS 5. The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime Nelson Lichtenstein 6. Deepening Compliance?: Multistakeholder Communication in Monitoring Labor Standards in the Value Chains of Brazil's Apparel Industry Anne Caroline Posthuma and Renato Bignami 7. Law and the Global Sweatshop Problem Brishen Rogers 8. Assessing the Risks of Participation in Global Value Chains Gary Gereffi and Xubei Luo Part III PROSPECTS FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS IN CHINA 9. Apple, Foxconn, and China's New Working Class Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, and Mark Selden 10. Labor Transformation in China: Voices from the Frontlines Katie Quan 11. CSR and Trade Union Elections at Foreign-Owned Chinese Factories Anita Chan Part IV A WAY FORWARD? 12. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg Index: A New Approach for the Apparel and Footwear Industry Jason Kibbey 13. Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers' Agreements for Twenty-First-Century Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Jennifer Bair, and Jeremy Blasi 14. Workers of the World Unite!: The Strategy of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility Jeff Hermanson

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