Global Governance and Labor Rights: Codes of Conduct and Anti-Sweatshop Struggles in Global Apparel Factories in Mexico and Guatemala

By César A. Rodríguez-Garavito. 2005

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Strategy and Management

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Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike (2006, unknown): “Critics identify a number of important conflicts of interest that exist among the key actors involved in the monitoring process (National Research Council 2004; Esbenshade 2004; Pruett 2005; Rodriguez-Garavito 2005).”
Codes in context: How states, markets, and civil society shape adherence to global labor standards: Codes in context (2015, background): “For instance, in his study of two Central American garment factories, Rodríguez-Garavito (2005) highlights the key roles played by advocacy groups, branded buyers, and buyer- and supplier-country government officials in advancing workers’ freedom of association rights under codes of conduct adopted…”
Multi-stakeholder regulation: privatizing or socializing global labor standards? (2006, background): “Even labor governance regimes driven by NGOs from the north can be viewed as top-down, consumeroriented, ‘‘elite’’ forms of regulation (Rodriguez-Garavito, 2005).”
Beyond corporate codes of conduct: Work organization and labour standards at Nike's suppliers (2007, background): “To that end, the article draws on historical, quantitative and case-study data on the code of conduct in effect at Nike Inc.”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters: Why Governance Matters (2014, background): “Private and public governance can have comparative strengths and weaknesses that make them complementary (Rodrı́guez-Garavito 2005).”
Impacts of Corporate Code of Conduct on Labor Standards: A Case Study of Reebok’s Athletic Footwear Supplier Factory in China (2008, unknown): “…Freeman, 2003; Sethi, 2003; Esbenshade, 2004), transforming employment relations (Frenkel, 2001; Frenkel and Kim, 2004; Pun, 2005; Sum and Pun, 2005; Wang, 2005), or revitalizing labor movement (Frundt, 2004; Prieto-Carrón, 2004; Armbruster-Sandoval, 2005; Rodriguez-Garavito, 2005; Ross, 2006).”
Do codes of conduct improve worker rights in supply chains? A study of Fair Wear Foundation (2015, background): “The argument is not that codes are unable to improve process rights in specific cases (Rodríguez-Garavito, 2005; Ross, 2006), but simply that such improvements are unlikely.”
Private Regulation and Trade Union Rights: Why Codes of Conduct Have Limited Impact on Trade Union Rights (2014, background): “…such as health and safety, provision of legal minimum wage, working hours, and insurance, it has achieved little or no improvement in trade union rights (Anner 2012; EgelsZandén 2013; Egels-Zandén and Hyllman 2007; Frenkel 2001; Mamic 2004; Oka 2011; Prieto-Carron 2006; Rodríguez-Garavito 2005).”