Combining global and local forces: The case of labor rights in Cambodia

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The “Bad Labor” Footprint: Quantifying the Social Impacts of Globalization (2014, background): “Many case studies demonstrate that bad labor conditions, such as child labor, forced labor, and poor working conditions and pay, are associated with the production of internationally traded goods [12–17].”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters: Why Governance Matters (2014, background): “Another possibility is that different forms of governance can complement each other (Amengual 2010; Polaski 2006) and, in some cases, lead to a ‘hybrid system of regulation’ (Amengual 2010), or ‘synergistic governance’ (Mayer 2014).”
Outsourcing governance: states and the politics of a ‘global value chain world’ (2017, background): “‘Better Work Cambodia’ is a good example – addressed in the papers in this Symposium by Bair and Posthuma and Rossi – wherein private actors’ participation in monitoring labour rights was made a condition for exporting under the US–Cambodia bilateral trade agreement (Polaski 2006).”
Global Value Chains, Local Collective Action and Corporate Social Responsibility: a Review of Empirical Evidence (2010, background): “It is argued that this led to better labour rights monitoring and improved labour standards in the Cambodian garments industry, thereby ensuring market access to the US and enhancing the competitiveness of the Cambodian garment sector (Polaski, 2004, 2006).”