Introduction / Rhys Jenkins, Ruth Pearson, Gill Seyfang -- Codes of conduct and global deregulation. The political economy of codes of conduct / Rhys Jenkins -- Labour rights/corporate responsibilities : the role of ILO labour standards / Jill Murray -- 'I'll tell you what i want ... ' : women workers and codes of conduct / Ruth Pearson, Gill Seyfang -- Mapping codes through the value chain : from researcher to detective / Stephanie Barrientos -- Codes of conduct : perspectives from stakeholders in the global production chains. Beyond codes : lessons from the Pentland experience / Lesley Roberts -- The international trade union movement and the new codes of conduct / Dwight Justice -- The emperor's new clothes : what codes mean for workers in the garment industry / Linda Shaw, Angela Hale -- Can codes of conduct help home based workers? / Lucy Brill -- Regional perspectives. 'Made in China' : rules and regulations versus codes of conduct in the toy sector / Alice Kwan, Stephen Frost -- The contradictions in codes : the Sri Lankan experience / Kelly Dent -- The potential of codes as part of women's organizations' strategies for promoting the rights of women workers : a Central America perspective / Marina Prieto, Angela Hadjipateras, Jane Turner -- The fox guarding the chicken coop : monitoring garment production in Los Angeles / Laura Dubinsky -- Practical issues in developing and implementing codes. Working with codes : perspectives from the clean clothes campaign / Nina Ascoly, Ineke Zeldenrust -- ETI : a multi-stakeholder approach / Mick Blowfield -- Monitoring the monitors : a critique of third-party labour monitoring / Dara O'Rourke -- Code monitoring in the informal Fair Trade sector : the experience of Oxfam GN / Rachel Wilshaw
Summary
The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a more general shift away from state regulation of transnational corporations towards corporate self-regulation in the areas of labour and environmental standards and human rights. This work provides a critical perspective on the growth and significance of corporate codes with a particular focus on working conditions and labour rights. It brings together work by academics practitioners and activists
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