Corporate responsibility and labour rights
Subtitle: codes of conduct in the global economy
By: edited by Rhys Jenkins, Ruth Pearson and Gill Seyfang
Contributors: Jenkins, Rhys Owen, 1948-; Pearson, Ruth, 1945-; Seyfang, Gill, 1969-
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Social responsibility of business; Industries -- Self-regulation; Industrial relations; Employee rights
Other titles: Corporate responsibility and labor rights; Corporate responsibility & labour rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Codes of conduct and global deregulation; title: Introduction / Rhys Jenkins, Ruth Pearson and Gill Seyfang. The political economy of codes of conduct / Rhys Jenkins. Labour rights/corporate responsibilities : the role of ILO labour standards / Jill Murray. 'I'll tell you what i want ... ' : women workers and codes of conduct / Ruth Pearson and Gill Seyfang. Mapping codes through the value chain : from researcher to detective / Stephanie Barrientos; title: Codes of conduct : perspectives from stakeholders in the global production chains : stakeholder perspectives. Beyond codes : lessons from the Pentland experience / Lesley Roberts. The international trade union movement and the new codes of conduct / Dwight Justice. The emperor's new clothes : what codes mean for workers in the garment industry / Linda Shaw and Angela Hale. Can codes of conduct help home based workers? / Lucy Brill. Regional perspectives. 'Made in China' : rules and regulations versus codes of conduct in the toy sector / Alice Kwan and Stephen Frost. The contradictions in codes : the Sri Lankan experience / Kelly Dent. The ootential of codes as part of women's organisations' strategies for promoting the rights of women workers : a Central America perspective / Marina Prieto, Angela Hadjipateras and Jane Turner. The fox guarding the chicken coop : monitoring garment production in Los Angeles / Laura Dubinsky. Practical issues in developing and implementing codes. Working with codes : perspectives from the clean clothes campaign / Nina Ascoly and Inneke Zeldenrust. ETI : aa multi-stakeholder approach / Mick Blowfield. Monitoring the monitors : a critique of third-party labour monitoring / Dara O'rourke. Code monitoring in the informal fair trade sector : the experience of Oxfam GN / Rachel Wilshaw