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OverviewThe world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1,100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production. Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chains-such as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at their heads-generate at least half of all world trade and include hundreds of millions of workers at thousands of contract manufacturers from Shenzhen and Shanghai to Sao Paulo and San Pedro Sula. This book offers an incisive analysis of this pernicious system along with essays that outline a set of practical guides to its radical reform. Contributors: Mark Anner, Penn State University; Richard P. Appelbaum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado Boulder; Renato Bignami, labor inspector, Brazil; Jeremy Blasi, UNITE HERE Local 11, Los Angeles, and Penn State; Anita Chan, Australian National University; Jenny Chan, University of Oxford; Jill Esbenshade, San Diego State University; Gary Gereffi, Duke University; Jeff Hermanson, International Union League for Brand Responsibility; Jason Kibbey, Sustainable Apparel Coalition; Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara; Xubei Luo, World Bank; Anne Caroline Posthuma, International Labour Organization; Scott Nova, Worker Rights Consortium; Ngai Pun, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Katie Quan, University of California, Berkeley; Brishen Rogers, Temple University; Robert J. S. Ross, Clark University; Mark Selden, Cornell University and New York University; Chris Wegemer, Santa Barbara, California Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard P. Appelbaum , Nelson Lichtenstein , Nelson LichtensteinPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501700033ISBN 10: 1501700030 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 14 June 2016 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein Part I SELF-GOVERNANCE: THE CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 1. Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist Scott Nova and Chris Wegemer 2. From Public Regulation to Private Enforcement: How CSR Became Managerial Orthodoxy Richard P. Appelbaum 3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Moving from Checklist Monitoring to Contractual Obligation? Jill Esbenshade 4. The Twilight of CSR: Life and Death Illuminated by Fire Robert J. S. Ross Part II GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS 5. The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime Nelson Lichtenstein 6. Deepening Compliance?: Multistakeholder Communication in Monitoring Labor Standards in the Value Chains of Brazil's Apparel Industry Anne Caroline Posthuma and Renato Bignami 7. Law and the Global Sweatshop Problem Brishen Rogers 8. Assessing the Risks of Participation in Global Value Chains Gary Gereffi and Xubei Luo Part III PROSPECTS FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS IN CHINA 9. Apple, Foxconn, and China's New Working Class Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, and Mark Selden 10. Labor Transformation in China: Voices from the Frontlines Katie Quan 11. CSR and Trade Union Elections at Foreign-Owned Chinese Factories Anita Chan Part IV A WAY FORWARD? 12. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg Index: A New Approach for the Apparel and Footwear Industry Jason Kibbey 13. Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers' Agreements for Twenty-First-Century Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Jennifer Bair, and Jeremy Blasi 14. Workers of the World Unite!: The Strategy of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility Jeff HermansonReviewsReflecting the impact of Bangladesh's 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, this volume may be the most significant contribution to transnational labor studies in a decade., The authors, widely respected as researchers and activists, offer critical perspectives on contemporary efforts to protect the world's workers, in the context of an integrated global economy and stark inequalities. Drawing on the authors' profound engagement in recent campaigns, the essays summarize current debates, problematize old assumptions, and propose new strategies, Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy is a must-read for labor advocates and policymakers: its insights and arguments will be central to activist debates and policy initiatives for the next decade and beyond. -Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison This clear-headed analysis of efforts to achieve workers' rights is based on solid research and is particularly welcome because it offers a reasonable way forward. The multiple perspectives yield a rich analysis and realistic suggestions for solutions. Workers in the global supply chains that feed prosperous economies suffer unforgivably precarious working conditions, and I applaud the editors of this fine volume for moving quickly after the Rana Plaza tragedy to mobilize and make a difference. -Edna M. Bonacich, University of California, Riverside Author InformationRichard P. Appelbaum is Research Professor and MacArthur Foundation Chair in the Departments of Sociology and Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author or editor of many books, he is coeditor most recently of Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference in Development? Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Chair in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. He is the author or editor of many books, including most recently State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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