Labour standards: case studies
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- Enhancing transparency in Hong Kong garment company supply chains
- ( CSR Asia , 2009)
- This report examines transparency in Hong Kong garment sector supply chain operations to provide an update of their overall performance, and any key developments facing Hong Kong companies....
- Cheap goods: counting the cost of giant retailers' purchasing practices
- ( M. Hearson (ed) / Clean Clothes Campaign , 2009)
- This report examines the business practices of giant retailers such as Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Lidl, and Aldi. These retailers have a global reach and huge market share in many countries, using the...
- Labour rights abuses in the pineapple supply chain
- ( International Labor Rights Forum , 2008)
- Since the 1960’s, pineapple production has quadrupled and export has tripled worldwide. While profits for some have tremendously expanded under such development, this report demonstrates how pin...
- The state of the labour market in South Africa
- ( National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa , 2008)
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Since the mid-1990s, the South African labour market has been reshaped to conform to the demands of a modern developing economy, while at the same time responding to the needs of what government ch...
- How to end child labour in cocoa production?
- ( International Labor Rights Forum , 2008)
- This document reviews the outcome of a policy instrument drafted in 2001, the “Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative Products,” also known as the Hark...
- Working conditions in IKEA's suppliers in Bangaldesh and Vietnam
- ( E. de Haan;M. van Dijk / Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations , 2006)
- This paper presents the findings of a study on the working conditions in IKEA’s suppliers in Bangladesh and Vietnam. It assesses the working conditions in the factories by comparing them with th...
- The state of workers in fashion industry
- ( M. Hearson / Labour Behind the Label , 2008)
- This is the third report in the past three years on the conditions of fashion workers brought out by Labour Behind the Label. The authors say that in three years there has been definite progress, not ...
- Localising Private Social Standards in Kenyan Horticulture
- ( L. Riisgaard / Danish Institute for International Studies , 2008)
- Private Social Standards (PSSs) covering the employment conditions of Southern producers exporting to European markets have multiplied rapidly since the 1990s. Most PSS initiatives have been designed ...
- How to improve labour standards in sportswear industry?
- ( Play Fair 2008 Campaign , 2008)
- Across the global sportswear industry, workers manufacturing sports apparel, footwear and soccer balls face poor working conditions and substantial violation of rights. This report which brought to fo...
- Are South African multinational hotels following labour regulations?
- ( National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa , 2007)
- This paper presents a number of case studies exploring working and employment conditions in a selection of South African Multinational Corporations (MNC’s) in sub-Saharan Africa comparing and co...
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