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Author Seidman, G.

Title Beyond the boycott : labor rights, human rights, and transnational activism / Gay W. Seidman
Published New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 176 pages)
Series American Sociological Association's Rose series in sociology
Rose series in sociology.
Contents Citizens, markets, and transnational labor activism -- Labor rights as human rights : regulation in the context of a "thinned" national state -- Monitoring multinationals : lessons from the anti-apartheid era -- Social labels, child labor, and monitoring in the Indian carpet industry -- Constructing a culture of compliance in Guatemala -- Citizenship at work
Summary A study of the impact of the Sullivan Code in South Africa, the Rugmark social labeling effort in the Indian handwoven carpet industry, and the COVERCO monitoring of the Guatemalan apparel industry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Employee rights -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Labor movement -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Human rights monitoring -- Developing countries -- Case studies
International business enterprises -- Developing countries -- Management -- Case studies
Social responsibility of business -- Developing countries -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Employee rights
Human rights monitoring
International business enterprises -- Management
Labor movement
Social responsibility of business
Arbeitnehmerschutz
Verbraucherboykott
Arbeitsrecht.
Menschenrecht.
Arbeiterbewegung.
Multinationales Unternehmen.
Management.
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer.
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007009609
ISBN 9781610444880
1610444884
Other Titles Labor rights, human rights, and transnational activism