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    Let’s clean up fashion 2008

    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 only in rhetoric but also in the beginnings of tangible work on the ground.
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    Building national campaigns: activists, alliances, and how change happens 

    Oxfam, 2007
    Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multiple challenges.
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    Organised labour and the social regulation of global value chains

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    Since the 1980s, various processes of economic globalisation have eroded established foundations of organised labour. The increased mobility of goods and capital, compared to labour’s relative immobility, has made it more difficult for labour to advance its objectives through traditional local industrial action or tripartite social contracts.
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    Localising private social standards: standard initiatives in Kenyan cut flowers

    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 in the North. Lately, however, a range of Southern standard initiatives have emerged in the African horticultural industry.
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    International companies in fragile states

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    This policy brief argues that while international companies remain active in fragile state environments, they often worsen rather than alleviate poor governance. It advocates good corporate responsibility practices in fragile states as a solution. The brief describes a number of ways in which private sector can frustrate peace and development in fragile states. They include:
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    Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid: an alternative perspective

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2007
    Fortune at the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ (BOP) is a key business concept which implies that MNCs can do profitable business with 4 billion customers at the bottom of the economic pyramid, and that doing so will help uplift the poor.
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    Selling sustainability. Seven lessons from advertising and marketing to sell low-carbon living

    National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, 2008
    Identifying climate change as a global problem that needs urgent attention, this paper provides a number of learning points about sustainability, particularly in terms of selling the concept of a low carbon living. It is hoped that the findings from this work will help the UK to meet the challenges of low carbon living.
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    Clearing the hurdles : steps to improving wages and working conditions in the global 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 focus the sports workers’ problems just before the recent Olympics 2008 is based on interviews with sportswear workers in China, India, Thailand and Indonesia, besides various secondary sources.
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    Electric capitalism: recolonising Africa on the power grid

    Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2008
    Focusing on the importance of electricity in Africa, this collaborative work examines the notion of electric capitalism. Although it is based mainly on South Africa, the editors argue that the majority of the lessons to come out of this work are also relevant to the rest of Africa.
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    The Canadian Centre for the Study of Resource Conflict (CCSRC)

    The Canadian Centre for the Study of Resource Conflict is an applied-research driven centre specializing in the analysis of natural resource based conflict, seeking to alleviate violence by engaging s

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