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Combatting Modern Slavery

Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It
Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2020
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-1367-3 (ISBN)
CHF 27,90 inkl. MwSt
Over the last decade, the world’s largest corporations – from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever – have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation continues to soar. Corporate social responsibility is not working. Why?  

In this landmark book, Genevieve LeBaron lifts the lid on a labour governance regime that is severely flawed and limited.  She takes a close-up look at the millions of corporate dollars spent on anti-slavery networks, NGO partnerships, lobbying for new transparency legislation, and investment in social auditing and ethical certification schemes, to show how such efforts serve to bolster corporate growth and legitimacy as well as government reputations, whilst failing to protect the world’s most vulnerable workers. 

To eradicate modern slavery and human trafficking in global supply chains a new approach is needed; one that confronts corporate power and profits, dismantles exploitative business models, and regulates the booming private industry of accounting firms, social auditors, and consultants that has emerged to ‘monitor’ and ‘enforce’ labour standards. Only worker-driven initiatives that uphold fundamental rights can protect workers in the contemporary global economy and make forced labour a thing of the past.

Genevieve LeBaron is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield.

1 Who Does Labor Governance Work For? 
2 Labor Exploitation in Global Supply Chains 
3 Corporate Power and the State 
4 The Recruitment Industry 
5 The Enforcement Industry 
6 Protecting 21st Century Workers

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 137 x 213 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-5095-1367-1 / 1509513671
ISBN-13 978-1-5095-1367-3 / 9781509513673
Zustand Neuware
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