Contract Labour: The ‘Achilles Heel’ of Corporate Codes in Commercial Value Chains

By S. Barrientos. 2008

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Management of Social Issues in Supply Chains: A Literature Review Exploring Social Issues, Actions and Performance Outcomes (2017, background): “Gender Gender equality refers to the equal treatment of women and transgender, catering to their special needs and assigning equal rights at the work place International Labour Organisation Preito-Carron (2008), Barrientos (2008), Tallontire et al.”
‘Labour Chains’: Analysing the Role of Labour Contractors in Global Production Networks (2013, background): “Corporate buyers pursue social compliance in the face of reputational risk of exposure of labour abuse in their GVCs – and illicit labour contractors using unfree labour encompass the worst risk (Barrientos, 2008; BSR, 2008).”
Clusters, Chains and Compliance: Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance in Football Manufacturing in South Asia (2010, background): “In the ethical trading and ethical sourcing literature, it is also assumed that the lead firms, often international retail brands or global brand supermarkets, operating in highly CSRsensitive industries, design and enforce compliance with CSR standards in their captive supply chains (Barrientos, 20”
Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a ‘global value chain world’ (2017, background): “…is the growth of precarious, insecure and exploitative work as the hallmark of the contemporary global economy, performed by a highly vulnerable and disenfranchised workforce, significantly made up of informal, migrant and contract workers (Portes et al. 1989, Barrientos 2008, Phillips 2011a).”
Corporate social responsibility and developing countries (2011, background): “Similarly, by focusing explicitly on the effectiveness of code instead of the broad notion of CSR, Barrientos (2008) demonstrated that the benefi ts of codes are limited and often do not address the needs of the most vulnerable workers. It is studies like these that would over time allow for the sys”
Economic and social upgrading in global production networks: Problems of theory and measurement (2011, background): “Labour monitoring and the endogeneity debate In addition to the extensive evidence on upgrading at the national and sectoral levels, there is an accumulating body of research on the monitoring of labour standards by civil servants (Piore and Schrank, 2006 and 2008; Seidman, 2007), by NGOs (Barriento”
Global Value Chains, Local Collective Action and Corporate Social Responsibility: a Review of Empirical Evidence (2010, background): “This raises doubts about the long-term sustainability of social compliance, especially when sustained pressure from international buyers is absent (Barrientos, 2008).”
Governing Global Supply Chain Sustainability through the Ethical Audit Regime (2017, background): “…supply chains, which has turned away from macro-political questions in favor of a focus on functional challenges (see Bair, 2008), most of the recent literature is focusing on ways to improve the quality of audits (cf. Barrientos, 2008; Plambeck, Lee, & Yatsko, 2012; Short, Toffel, & Hugill, 2015).”