Hillary J. Shaw, Julia J. A. Shaw

Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain

Towards an Ethical Food Policy for Sustainable Supermarkets

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Produktbeschreibung

CSR, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary response to calls for reform in relation to social and environmental justice, and proposes an alternative approach to current CSR initiatives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9781138935532
• ISBN-10: 1138935530
• Artikelnr.: 43675667

Autorenporträt

Hillary J. Shaw is Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His research spans sustainable economic development, corporate social responsibility, and the integration of global and local food systems. He is the author of many journal articles, essays, reviews, reports and books, including The Consuming Geographies of Food: Diet, Food Deserts and Obesity (Routledge, 2014). Julia J.A. Shaw is Professor of Law and Social Justice in the School of Law at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her research is interdisciplinary, and publications include Jurisprudence (3rd edition, Pearson 2018) and Law and the Passions: A Discrete History (Routledge, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why do companies exist?
Chapter 1: Feasting Cavemen and Responsible Giants
1.1The eternal modern feast of supermarkets
1.2 The growth of the supermarkets
1.3 Food hedonism
1.4 The growing obesity epidemic
1.5 The multiple dimensions of economies of scale in supermarkets
1.6 What is CSR?
1.7 'Provisions' as a Fourth Bottom Line; why we need enhanced supermarket
CSR
1.8 Is anything wrong with supermarket corporate social responsibility?
1.9 The need for more accountable, comparable and long-term CSR
1.10 The need for other actors in the realm of supermarket corporate social
responsibility
Chapter 2: Food justice as social justice: towards a new regulatory
framework in support of a basic human right to healthy food
2.1 The need for regulatory reform to address food injustice
2.2 Hungry for justice: the right to nutritional food and a healthy diet
2.3 Social stratification, poverty and the unequal burden of family health
and nutrition
2.4 A Rawlsian approach to alleviating food poverty as a fundamental
principle of social justice
2.5 The reciprocal influence of egalitarian institutions as a basic
requirement of social justice
2.6 Between theory and reality: from moral law to soft law solutions
2.7 The potential and limits of corporate social responsibility
2.8 Beyond CSR, soft law and traditional regulatory models
2.9 'Proximity' via Levinas and the law of tort: social responsibility
begins in the neighbourhood
2.10 Can there ever be a human right to healthy food?
Chapter 3 Food Retailing, Society and the Economy
3.1 From laissez-faire to planning regulations
3.2 Behemoths versus Boroughs
3.3 Supermarket land banks
3.4. Other supermarket planning issues
3.5. Respect for other nations' laws and culture
3.6. Supermarkets and competition with other retailers
3.7 Supermarket competition with retailers in the developing world
3.8. Supermarkets and job creation
3.9 Supermarket pay levels
Chapter 4 Food retailing and the environment
4.1 Energy use in the food chain
4.2 Food miles
4.3 Water usage
4.4. Sustainability of the food chain
4.5 Sustainability of fishing
4.6 Sustainability of the rainforest
4.7 Plastic pollution
4.8 Binning the plastic
4.9 Food waste
Chapter 5 Food retailing and supermarket suppliers
5.1. Supermarket monopsonies and farm prices
5.2. The price of milk
5.3 Other supermarket food prices
5.4 Supermarket clothing prices
5.5 Supermarket payments to suppliers
5.6. The pressures on rural society
5.7 Animal welfare
5.8 Food Labelling
Chapter 6 Food Retailing, Community and Consumers
6.1 Assistance for customers
6.2. Local charity donations
6.3. Food banks
6.4. Tesco Computers for Schools
6.5. Other supermarket charitable donations
6.6. Supermarket customer data
6.7. Effort made by supermarkets to ensure the food from food processors is
healthier.
6.8. Marketing to children
6.9. Supermarket food labelling
Chapter 7 Other food suppliers and food promoters
7.1. Schools, prisons and the military
7.2. Hospitals and care homes
7.3. Television and other advertising.
7.4. Taxation
Chapter 8: Supermarket CSR initiatives now, and change for future health
and sustainability
8.1. A classification of current supermarket CSR initiatives
8.2. The feel-good factor of CSR
8.3. Refocussing CSR towards health and sustainability
8.4. Keeping the supermarkets intact, candid, responsible and responsive