What effect does corporate power have on human rights? This is the question that this book seeks address by robustly challenging the current status quo of business approaches to human rights in order to develop meaningful alternatives in an attempt to breech the gap between the realities of business and human rights and its discourse.
What effect does corporate power have on human rights? This is the question that this book seeks address by robustly challenging the current status quo of business approaches to human rights in order to develop meaningful alternatives in an attempt to breech the gap between the realities of business and human rights and its discourse.
Manette Kaisershot is a researcher and lecturer at the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Her research primarily concentrates on issues in Business and Human Rights, but also encompasses cultural studies, politics, sociology, and economics. Nicholas Connolly is a Doctoral researcher at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Corporate power and human rights 2. Corporate human rights commitments and the psychology of business acceptance of human rights duties: a multi-industry analysis 3. Extreme energy, 'fracking' and human rights: a new field for human rights impact assessments? 4. 'From naming and shaming to knowing and showing': human rights and the power of corporate practice 5. Global production, CSR and human rights: the courts of public opinion and the social licence to operate 6. These are financial times: a human rights perspective on the UK financial services sector 7. Company-created remedy mechanisms for serious human rights abuses: a promising new frontier for the right to remedy? 8. Beyond the 100 Acre Wood: in which international human rights law finds new ways to tame global corporate power 9. CSR is dead: long live Pigouvian taxation 10. Defending corporate social responsibility: Myanmar and the lesser evil
1. Introduction: Corporate power and human rights 2. Corporate human rights commitments and the psychology of business acceptance of human rights duties: a multi-industry analysis 3. Extreme energy, 'fracking' and human rights: a new field for human rights impact assessments? 4. 'From naming and shaming to knowing and showing': human rights and the power of corporate practice 5. Global production, CSR and human rights: the courts of public opinion and the social licence to operate 6. These are financial times: a human rights perspective on the UK financial services sector 7. Company-created remedy mechanisms for serious human rights abuses: a promising new frontier for the right to remedy? 8. Beyond the 100 Acre Wood: in which international human rights law finds new ways to tame global corporate power 9. CSR is dead: long live Pigouvian taxation 10. Defending corporate social responsibility: Myanmar and the lesser evil
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