Rossi / Luinstra / Pickles Towards Better Work

Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-37754-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 337 Seiten

Reihe: Advances in Labour Studies

Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-oriented approaches for promoting improved working conditions and labour rights in the apparel industry.

Dennis Arnold, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Thomas Bernhardt, New School for Social Research Resmi P. Bhaskaran, development economist Drusilla Brown, Tufts University, USA Upendranadh Choragudi, ActionAid International Rejeev Dehejia, New York University, USA Gary Gereffi, Duke University, USA Shane Godfrey, University of Cape Town, South Africa Stephanie Kuttner, Gender and Social Development Consultant Amy Luinstra, IFC's Sustainable Business Advisory department Frederick Mayer, Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, USA Doug Miller, University of Northumbria, UK Dev Nathan, Duke University, USA Nicola Phillips, University of Sheffield, UK John Pickles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Kelly Pike, York University, Canada Leonhard Plank, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Richard Record, World Bank's Southeast Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management team Raymond Robertson, Macalester College, USA Arianna Rossi, ILO/IFC Better Work Programme Cornelia Staritz, Austrian Research Foundation for International Development (ÖFSE) Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rossi, A.

Luinstra, A.

Pickles, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Half-Title;2
3;Series;3
4;Title;4
5;Copyright;5
6;Contents;6
7;List of Figures, Tables and Boxes;8
8;Preface;11
9;Notes on Contributors;14
10;List of Abbreviations;20
11;Introduction;22
12;Part I;36
12.1;1 Re-embedding the Market: Global Apparel Value Chains, Governance and Decent Work;37
12.2;2 Economic and Social Upgrading of Developing Countries in the Global Apparel Sector: Insights from Using a Parsimonious Measurement Approach;60
12.3;3 How 'Fair' Are Wage Practices along the Supply Chain? A Global Assessment;88
12.4;4 Regulating the 'Wage Effort Bargain' in Outsourced Apparel Production: Towards a Model;123
13;Part II;145
13.1;5 What Does 'Fast Fashion' Mean for Workers? Apparel Production in Morocco and Romania;146
13.2;6 Voting with Their Feet? Explaining High Turnover and Low Productivity in the Lao Garment Sector;167
13.3;7 Vulnerable Workers and Labour Standards (Non-)Compliance in Global Production Networks: Home-Based Child Labour in Delhi's Garment Sector;191
13.4;8 Workers' Perceptions of Compliance with Labour Standards: Assessing Opportunities and Challenges for Better Work in Lesotho's Apparel Sector;210
13.5;9 Workers' Agency and Power Relations in Cambodia's Garment Industry;231
13.6;10 Factory Decisions to Become Noncompliant with Labour Standards: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia;251
13.7;11 Towards Better Work in Central America: Nicaragua and the CAFTA context;270
14;Conclusions;295
15;Bibliography;305
16;Index;326