Herausgeber_in: Anil Hira, Maureen Benson-Rea

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, mangelnde Arbeitssicherheit, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Akkord, Sicherheitsbedingungen, Sicherheitsstandards, Sozialstandards, Bangladesch, Bekleidungsindustrie, CSR, Fabrikunglück, Rana Plaza, Unternehmensverantwortung, Verantwortung von Regierungen und des öffentlichen Sektors, Transparenz

Kurzbeschreibung:
This edited collection critically explores the efforts of the apparel industry to improve safety conditions and suggests governance reforms that will resolve lingering issues. The volume examines two consortia: the Alliance and the Accord, which set up cooperative auditing systems of supplying factories and penalties for non-compliance, and include funding to help factories comply and for workers if factories are idled during repairs, though the editors raise doubts about the long-lasting value of such efforts. In the wake of the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, leading researchers across labor relations and industry studies tackle and debate such issues, giving their perspective of how multinationals operating in developing countries should regulate labor standards in order to resolve and improve the substandard working conditions under which much of our clothing is made.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 181 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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Autor_in: Björn Skorpen Claeson
In: New Solutions, Vol. 24(4), S. 495-509; Comment and Controversy

Schlagwörter: CSR, Unternehmensverantwortung, Bangladesch, Accord, Freiwillige versus gesetzliche Regelungen, Arbeitsrechte

Kurzbeschreibung:
Under the regime of private company or multi-stakeholder voluntary codes of conduct and industry social auditing, workers have absorbed low wages and unsafe and abusive conditions; labor leaders and union members have become the targets of both government and factory harassment and violence; and trade union power has waned. Nowhere have these private systems of codes and audits so clearly failed to protect workers as in Bangladesh’s apparel industry. However, international labor groups and Bangladeshi unions have succeeded in mounting a challenge to voluntarism in the global economy, persuading more than 180 companies to make a binding and enforceable commitment to workers’ safety in an agreement with 12 unions. The extent to which this Bangladesh Accord will be able to influence the entrenched global regime of voluntary codes and weak trade unions remains an open question. But if the Accord can make progress in Bangladesh, it can help to inspire similar efforts in other countries and in other industries.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2014

Umfang: 15 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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