The business of human rights
Subtitle: an evolving agenda for corporate responsibility
By: edited by Aurora Voiculescu and Helen Yanacopulos
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781848138629; 9781848138636
Subjects: Human rights; Law and legislation; Corporate governance; Social responsibility of business
Description: As multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg. This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for corporate social responsibility and the demands for an extension of international human rights standards.
Notes: "The Open University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human rights in business contexts: an overview / Aurora Voiculescu and Helen Yanacopulos; title: Human rights and the normative ordering of global capitalism management / Aurora Voiculescu; title: Brands, corporate social responsibility and reputation management / Fiona Harris; title: Transforming labour standards into labour rights / Piya Pangsapa and Mark J. Smith; title: Violent corporate crime, corporate social responsibility and human rights / Gary Slapper; title: Access to medicines: intellectual property rights, human rights and justice / Keren Bright and Lois Muraguri; title: Foundations actors of change? / Helen Yanacopulos; title: Combating transnational corporate corruption: enhancing human rights and good governance / John Hatchard; title: Business in zones of conflict: an emergent corporate security responsibility? / Nicole Dietelhoff and Klaus Dieter Wolf; title: Human rights, ethics and international business: the case of Nigeria / Olufemi Amao; title: Clusters of injustice: human rights, labour standards and environmental sustainability / Mark J. Smith and Piya Pangsapa.