Labor Standards in International Supply Chains: Aligning Rights and Incentives

✍ Scribed by Daniel Berliner, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Milli Lake, Margaret Levi, Jennifer Noveck

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Labor Standards in International Supply Chains examines developments in working conditions over the past thirty years. The authors analyze the stakeholders and mechanisms that create challenges and opportunities for improving labor rights around the world, in sectors including apparel, footwear and electronics. Extended examples from China, Honduras, Bangladesh and the United States, as well as new quantitative evidence, illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key groups, including brands, suppliers, governments, workers and consumers.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The world brands create
3. Aligning interests across global supply chains: an analytic framework
4. The international framework for labor standards
5. Labor standards around the world: a quantitative examination
6. The United States in the struggle for labor standards
7. Apparel production in Honduras: a case of cross-cluster alignment
8. Apparel production in Bangladesh: opportunity amidst tragedy?
9. Labor resistance and local government – supplier collusion inpost-1986 China
10. Conclusion
References
Index