Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Achieving Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy 1
5. Part I. Self-Governance: The Challenges and Limitations of Corporate Social Responsibility
6. 1. Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist 17
7. 2. From Public Regulation to Private Enforcement: How CSR Became Managerial Orthodoxy 32
8. 3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Moving from Checklist Monitoring to Contractual Obligation? 51
9. 4. The Twilight of CSR: Life and Death Illuminated by Fire 70
10. Part II. Governance of Global Production Networks
11. 5. The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime 95
12. 6. Deepening Compliance?: Potential for Multistakeholder Communication in Monitoring Labor Standards in the Value Chains of Brazil’s Apparel Industry 112
13. 7. Law and the Global Sweatshop Problem 137
14. 8. Assessing the Risks of Participation in Global Value Chains 152
15. Part III. Prospects for Workers' Rights in China
16. 9. Apple, Foxconn, and China’s New Working Class 173
17. 10. Labor Transformation in China: Voices from the Frontlines 190
18. 11. CSR and Trade Union Elections at Foreign-Owned Chinese Factories 209
19. Part IV. A Way Forward
20. 12. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg Index: A New Approach for the Apparel and Footwear Industry 229
21. 13. Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers’ Agreements for Twenty-First-Century Global Supply Chains 239
22. 14. Workers of the World Unite!: The Strategy of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility 259
23. Notes 275
24. References 287
25. Contributors 319
26. Index 323