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    The high cost of calling: critical issues in the mobile phone industry

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006
    This report looks at corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mobile phone industry.
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    North Korea: workers’ rights at the Kaesong Industrial Complex

    Human Rights Watch, 2006
    This briefing paper provides an overview of the work conditions at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC), which was opened by The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) in June 2004 under a contract with Hyundai Asan Corporation and state-owned Korea Land Corporation of the Republic of Korea (ROK, South Korea).
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    Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: Chiquita, women banana workers and structural inequalities

    Siyanda, 2004
    The paper explores Chiquita’s corporate social responsibility policy and how Nicaraguan women banana workers view the policy and its implementation. The women express that the CSR policy of the company makes little difference on the ground and provide some recommendations for better implementation.
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    Made by women: gender, the global garment industry and the movement for women worker’s rights

    Clean Clothes Campaign, 2006
    This report highlights the importance of gender in the garment industry. As women make up a significant portion of the garment industry’s workforce, gender plays an important role in determining working conditions, worker’s rights, and wages. This paper highlights a number of gender concerns within this industry, by providing a series of profiles on women workers, activists, and organisations.
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    The life of football factory workers in Thailand

    Clean Clothes Campaign, 2006
    This study assesses two football producers, Mikasa Industries (Thailand) and Molten Thailand, which are both Japanese investment companies producing footballs, volleyballs and basketballs for export.
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    Labor issues continue to blight computer industry

    Eldis Document Store, 2006
    This article examines labour issues in the computer manufacturing supply chain.
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    Offside!: labour rights and sportswear production in Asia

    Oxfam, 2006
    This report considers 12 international sports brands — Adidas, ASICS, FILA, Kappa, Lotto, Mizuno, New Balance, Nike, Puma, Reebok, Speedo and Umbro — and examines the steps they take to ensure their suppliers in Asia allow workers to organise trade unions and bargain collectively for better wages and conditions.
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    Coca Cola: the alternative report

    War on Want, 2006
    This report compares and contrasts Coca Cola’s rhetoric of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with the reality of actual practices of the company.
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    Acer: company profile

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2005
    The company profile on Acer aims to identify critical issues in Acer’s supply chain from the perspective of poverty eradication and sustainable development. In order to identify the labour issues in Acer’s supply chain, research was undertaken on the working conditions in four factories in China and one in the Philippines.
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    Fujitsu Siemens Computers: company profile

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2005
    This report examines the CSR record of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. As the report highlights, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and its parent companies Fujitsu and Siemens have elaborate policies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially in relation to the environment.

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