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  Corporate social responsibility: Central American women speak out

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Codes of conduct are currently failing to meet their potential to improve the lives of many workers because they are not being developed, implemented and monitored in partnership with their intended beneficiaries. Instead, they have been shaped by a narrow set of commercial interests. What needs to be done to address this state of affairs?
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  Time for equality at work

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This report is the fourth Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. It examines the diverse forms of discrimination at work that have been identified and formally condemned nationally and internationally.
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  Stitching values together: implementing core labour standards through management training in the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2002

  This report details a pilot project in Bangladesh to bring about improvements in working conditions in the ready-made garment sector, by building management capacity to understand the need for and to be able to change.
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  Fourth Synthesis Report on the working conditions situation in Cambodia's garment sector

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  Under an agreement between the governments of Cambodia and the United States of America, which increases Cambodia's export entitlements to the US if labour standards improve, the ILO produces an annual report on standards in Cambodian garment factories.This document presents the fourth such report. It reports on monitoring procedures and results.
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  Sweatships

  War on Want, 2002

  The report provides the background to a War on Want Campaign that is pushing for cruise ship companies to drastically improve the pay and conditions of their workers.The document highlights the gap between the expectations and information given at recruitment and the reality of life as a crew member on board ship.The author provides an overview of the cruise industry and its growth before pr
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  Child labour and labour rights in the sporting goods industry: a case for corporate social responsibility

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2002

  This study seeks to (re)examine the issue/problem of child labour and other labour standards in the football industry in India building upon the previous studies done on the industry in the recent past.The study presents results from interviews and surveys of households and stitching centres in the football producing areas of Jallandhar and Batala, Punjab.
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  Business ethics in the textile, clothing and footwear (TCF) industries: Codes of Conduct

  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1997

  Reviews use of codes, compares exisiting codes and recommends a standard code. Codes covered include those of Levi Strauss, Sara Lee, Phillips-van Heusen, The Gap, Reebok and Nike.
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  Working Conditions in Sports Shoe Factories in China Making Shoes for Nike and Reebok

  Global Exchange, 1998

  Report examined workers' rights and working conditions in the factories of five major subcontractors producing sports shoes in China: Yue Yuen, Nority International, KTP Holdings and Wellco. These factories produce shoes for Nike and Reebok.
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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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  Mulan's Sisters: Working Conditions in Chinese Factories Making Disney Products

  Global Exchange, 1999

  There are hundreds of Disney licensees in China producing Disney toys, garments, and footwear. Between July 1998 and February 1999, researchers from the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (HKCIC) visited four of the factories in China producing garments illustrated with Disney characters.

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