Tethered Fates - Companies, Communities, and Rights At Stake

Zusatztext 14/01/2019 Informationen zum Autor Shareen Hertel is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut and has worked with foundations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and United Nations agencies in the United States, Latin America, and South Asia for over two decades. Hertel is also editor of The Journal of Human Rights and and has published books and articles across multiple disciplines. Klappentext Tethered Fates explores the challenge of safeguarding economic rights beyond the factory floor in global supply chains. Drawing on a 7,000-company database, it maps trends in company-community interaction through "stakeholder dialogue." It features grassroots perspectives from two manufacturing communities in the Dominican Republic, and assesses emerging policy alternatives globally. Zusammenfassung Tethered Fates explores the challenge of safeguarding economic rights beyond the factory floor in global supply chains. Drawing on a 7,000-company database, it maps trends in company-community interaction through "stakeholder dialogue." It features grassroots perspectives from two manufacturing communities in the Dominican Republic, and assesses emerging policy alternatives globally.

Product details

• Authors: Shareen Hertel, Shareen (Associate Professor of Political Hertel, Hertel Shareen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780190903831
• ISBN: 978-0-19-090383-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, LAW / Labor & Employment, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Employment & Labour Law, Employment and labour law: general