Protecting the Workforce - A Defense of Workers Rights in Global Supply Chains

This book provides workers in global supply chains, disadvantaged in a globalized economy by powerful multinational corporations, a macro-look at the interconnectedness of international institutions, corporations, and governments and provides strategies for overcoming worker/corporate power imbalances through collective action via trade unions.

List of contents

1: How the Evolution of Global Supply Chains Exploits Workers

2: The Regulatory Framework

3: The Development of Global Supply Chains

4: The Fragmentation of Work in GSCs

5: How Industrial Tragedies Foster Policy

6: Corporate Social Responsibility

7: Political and Legal Strategies to Regulate Global Supply Chains

8: Strategies and Tools to Promote Workers' Rights in Global Supply Chains

About the author

Marquita R. Walker is associate professor in the Department of Labor Studies, School of Social Work, at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

Product details

• Authors: Marquita R. Walker, Walker Marquita R.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781498599122
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9912-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, Society and culture: general, Industrial arbitration & negotiation, Industrial arbitration and negotiation