Luc Fransen

Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Labor Standards (eBook, ePUB)

Firms and Activists in the Making of Private Regulation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How effective are businesses at improving working conditions in their supply chains through private regulation? Can private regulation be both stringent and popular with firms? This book analyzes the nature and origins of, the business demand for and the competition between all relevant private regulatory organizations focusing on clothing production.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136493416
• Artikelnr.: 38272995

Autorenporträt

Luc Fransen is Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. His main research interests concern the global governance of social and environmental standards. His research has been published in Governance, Review of International Political Economy, Business & Society, European Journal of Industrial Relations and Organization.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Understanding Private Labor Regulation 1. Private Labor Regulation:
Why and What Is It Good For? 2. Understanding Developments in Private Labor
Regulation: A Research Framework Part II: Organizing Private Labor
Regulation 3. Labor Standards, Implementation and Degrees of Control: A
Power Based Analysis of Private Regulatory Approaches 4. How to Dress Up a
Code: The Politics of Developing Private Regulatory Organizations Part III:
Business Demand and Competition 5. Choosing a Code: Understanding Business
Support for Private Labor Regulation 6. Competing Codes: Understanding the
Dynamics of Private Regulatory Competition Part IV: The Future of Private
Labor Regulation 7. Conclusions and Prospects Glossary of Organizations
Appendix I: The Eight Private Regulatory Organizations Appendix II:
Methodology Notes Bibliography