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Searching with a thematic focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour standards, Globalisation

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  The case for international labour standards: a Northern perspective

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  The last few decades have seen heated debates over the issue of international labour standards.
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  Thailand: the plight of burmese migrant workers

  Amnesty International, 2005

  This article examines some of the key issues and problems faced by Burmese migrant workers and their families in Thailand. The material is based on testimonies from migrant workers, official documents and media reports.
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  Managing the transition to a responsible global textiles and garment industry

  AccountAbility, 2005

  The Multi Fiber Arrangement provided many coutries with access to markets and sheltered them from global competititon, through the imposition of country quotas. This paper considers the implications of a post-MFA era for developing countries where garment production and exports are mainstays of the economy.
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  Race to the bottom: exploitation of workers in the global garment industry

  Norwegian Church Aid, 2005

  This paper explores the race to the bottom in garment producing countries.
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  The globalisation of labour standards

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  In the light of an increased integration of the world economy, this paper examines the globalisation of labour standards.
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  Trading away our rights: women working in global supply chains

  Oxfam, 2004

  While much research has focused on the content of labour codes of conduct and how suppliers meet them, this paper argues that in practice it is the supply-chain purchasing practices of the large companies themselves that undermine the labour standards the codes claim to support.The paper argues that a new model of business practice that requires increasing flexibility through "just-in-time" del
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  Codes of conduct, government regulation and worker organizing

  Maquila Solidarity Network, 2000

  This paper examines the advantages and limitations of voluntary codes of conduct, which have become prominent as labour standards and working conditions in consumer products industries have deteriorated in the wake of trade liberalisation and globalisation, and restructuring of production and distribution.The paper argues that there are legitimate grounds to be sceptical about the usefulness o
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  Workers’ tool or PR ploy? A guide to codes of international labour practice

  Dialogue on globalisation, 2003

  Ethical production and consumption is the aim of several trade-related initiatives launched in recent years, including social labelling, WTO campaigns, framework agreements and codes of conduct.
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  Labor standards and the Free Trade Area of the Americas

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2003

  The real debate over labour standards is how and with what urgency to promote the core labour standards. In this debate the questions include a) whether universal means uniform and what that implies for development, and b) whether implementation and enforcement of global labour standards should be explicitly linked to trade agreements.
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  Fashion victims: The Asian garment industry and globalisation

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 1998

  Report looks at the impact of globalisation on the lives of garment workers in Asia. Urban Missionaries, a CAFOD partner in the Philippines, carried out research on the increasing use of temporary contracts in the garment industry. In Sri Lanka, People’s Forum for Development Alternatives (PEFDA) interviewed workers in the Kandy and Kurunegala areas.

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