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Searching with a thematic focus on CR and supply chains, Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour standards

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  Have Hong Kong garment companies improved their reporting on labour standards?

  CSR Asia, 2009

  This report examines transparency in Hong Kong garment sector supply chain operations to provide an update of their overall performance, and any key developments facing Hong Kong companies.The research covers five categories: governance and risk management code of conduct stakeholder engagement
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  Cashing in: giant retailers, purchasing practices, and working conditions in the garment industry

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2009

  This report examines the business practices of giant retailers such as Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Lidl, and Aldi.
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  The sour taste of pineapple: how an expanding export industry undermines workers and their communities

  International Labor Rights Forum, 2008

  Since the 1960’s, pineapple production has quadrupled and export has tripled worldwide. While profits for some have tremendously expanded under such development, this report demonstrates how pineapple workers, their families and communities, and the environment in the largest pineapple producing nations have not enjoyed the benefits of such growth.
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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.