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Author Workers, Businesses and Government : Understanding Labour Compliance in Global Supply Chains (Conference) (2011 : Washington, D.C.)

Title Towards better work : understanding labour in apparel global value chains / edited by Arianna Rossi, Amy Luinstra and John Pickles
Published New york/basingstoke : Palgrave macmillan, 2014
Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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 MELB  331.12587 Wbg/Ulc 2011  AVAILABLE
Description xx, 318 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Series Advances in labour studies
Advances in labour studies.
Contents Contents note continued: 8.Workers' Perceptions of Compliance with Labour Standards: Assessing Opportunities and Challenges for Better Work in Lesotho's Apparel Sector / Shane Godfrey -- 9.Workers' Agency and Power Relations in Cambodia's Garment Industry / Dennis Arnold -- 10.Factory Decisions to Become Noncompliant with Labour Standards: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia / Raymond Robertson -- 11.Towards Better Work in Central America: Nicaragua and the Cafta context / Gary Gereffi
Machine generated contents note: Part I -- 1.Re-embedding the Market: Global Apparel Value Chains, Governance and Decent Work / John Pickles -- 2.Economic and Social Upgrading of Developing Countries in the Global Apparel Sector: Insights from Using a Parsimonious Measurement Approach / Thomas Bernhardt -- 3.How ̀Fair' Are Wage Practices along the Supply Chain? A Global Assessment / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead -- 4.Regulating the ̀Wage Effort Bargain' in Outsourced Apparel Production: Towards a Model / Doug Miller -- Part II -- 5.What Does ̀Fast Fashion' Mean for Workers? Apparel Production in Morocco and Romania / Cornelia Staritz -- 6.Voting with Their Feet? Explaining High Turnover and Low Productivity in the Lao Garment Sector / Kabmanivanh Phouxay -- 7.Vulnerable Workers and Labour Standards (Non-)Compliance in Global Production Networks: Home-Based Child Labour in Delhi's Garment Sector / Upendranadh Choragudi --
Notes Co-published by the International Labour Office
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Clothing workers -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Clothing workers -- Supply and demand.
Employee rights -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Manufacturing industries -- Employees -- Supply and demand.
Offshore assembly industry -- Developing countries -- Employees -- Congresses.
Work environment -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Luinstra, Amy, editor of compilation
Pickles, John, 1952- editor of compilation
Rossi, Arianna, editor of compilation
International Labour Office, publisher
LC no. 2013478387
ISBN 9781137377531
9789221278023 (ILO)