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Searching with a thematic focus on Labour standards, Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour Standards Case Study

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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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  Rotten fruit: Tesco profits as women workers pay a high price

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Tesco is committed to CSR and the Ethical Trading Initiative baseline code, and workers on South African farm suppliers benefit from strong provisions in South African law to protect labour standards.
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  Behind the brand names: working conditions and labour rights in export processing zones

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2004

  The report explores the realties of working conditions in export prcessing zones (EPZs). It points out that EPZs are costly in terms of the infrastructure they require, use few local inputs, and provide little or no tax revenue for their host countries.
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  Deliberate indifference: El Salvador’s failure to protect workers’ rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report explores human rights abuses of workers in El Salvador. Supported by the use of eight representative case studies, the report illustrates how workers are abused with virtual impunity.
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  Clean up your computer: working conditions in the electronics sector

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper analyses the labour standards and working conditions in computing manufacturing, particularly in developing countries where many stages of computer production are carried out by low-skilled and low-paid workers.The paper finds that unlike their counterparts in the clothing and footwear sector, computer companies have thus far escaped scrutiny on labour issues.
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  Small change: bonded child labour in India’s silk industry

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report is a survey of child labour in the silk industry in India.
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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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  Organized labour in the 21st century

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Niger, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia and USA.
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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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  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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