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Title Workers' rights and labor compliance in global supply chains : is a social label the answer? / edited by Jennifer Bair, Marsha Dickson, and Doug Miller
Published New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 310 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in business ethics ; 7
Routledge studies in business ethics ; 7.
Contents pt. 1. Introduction and historical overview -- pt. 2. Social labels in comparative perspective -- pt. 3. Consumer and business perspectives on social labeling -- pt. 4. Contemporary debates and controversies
pt. 1. Introduction and historical overview. To label or not to label: is that the question? / Jennifer Bair, Marsha A. Dickson and Doug Miller -- Consumers and producers: agency, power and social enfranchisement / Robert J.S. Ross -- pt. 2. Social labels in comparative perspective. Ethical branding in Sri Lanka: a case study of garments without guilt / Annelies Goger -- Is there a business case for improving labor standards? Some evidence from better factories Cambodia / Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia and Raymond Robertson -- The impact of the fibre citoyenne label on the Moroccan garment industry and its workers / Arianna Rossi -- From 'no sweat shop' label to ethical clothing Australia / Patricia Brien -- pt. 3. Consumer and business perspectives on social labeling. Identifying and understanding ethical consumer behavior: reflections on 15 years of research / Marsha A. Dickson -- The strength of weak commitments: market contexts and ethical consumption / Ian Robinson, Rachel Meyer, and Howard Kimeldorf -- Social labeling on the web: how fashion retailers communicate information about labor practices to online consumers / Llyr Roberts -- Motivations and concerns for public reporting about corporate social responsibility and compliance with labor standards: a case study of the apparel industry / Theodora Valero and Marsha A. Dickson -- pt. 4. Contemporary debates and controversies. Providing direct economic benefit to workers through fair-trade labeling of apparel: the fair-trade USA apparel and linens pilot project / Heather Franzese -- No access to justice: the failure of ethical labeling and certification systems for worker rights / Bama Athreya and Brian Campbell -- Are social labels symbols of resistance? A case for sweatshop-free procurement in the U.S. public sector / Bjorn Skorpen Claeson -- Social labeling and supply chain reform: the designated supplier program and the Alta Gracia label / Scott Nova and John M. Kline -- Truth in labeling: toward a genuine, multistakeholder apparel social label / Eric Dirnbach
Summary This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel supply chains. It examines the possibilities and limitations of market approaches to securing social compliance in global manufacturing industries. It does so by tracing the historic origins of social labelling both in trade union and consumer constituencies, considering industry and consumer perspectives on the benefits and drawbacks of social labelling, comparing efforts to develop and implement labelling initiatives in various countries, and locati
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sweatshops.
Clothing trade -- Moral and ethical aspects
Union labels -- Social aspects
Social responsibility of business.
Employee rights.
International trade -- Social aspects
sweatshops.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Clothing trade -- Moral and ethical aspects
Employee rights
International trade -- Social aspects
Social responsibility of business
Sweatshops
Globalisierung
Welthandel
Arbeitnehmerschutz
Corporate Social Responsibility
Fairer Handel
Sozialstandards.
Arbeitnehmerschutz.
Warenkennzeichnung.
Fairer Handel.
Corporate Social Responsibility.
Welt.
Form Electronic book
Author Bair, Jennifer, 1973-
Dickson, Marsha Ann.
ISBN 9781135012885
1135012881
9780203751701
0203751701
9781135012892
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