Do workers benefit from ethical trade? Assessing codes of labour practice in global production systems

By S. Barrientos, Sally Smith. 2007

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

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Global standards, global governance and the organization of global value chains (2008, background): “Recent studies by Barrientos and Smith (2007) on the poverty and social impact of the UK’s Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), and by Locke and Romis (2007) and Locke et al. (2007) on Nike’s global supply chains, provide some evidence on outcomes for workers and local producers, but questions remain.”
Governing Global Supply Chain Sustainability through the Ethical Audit Regime (2017, result): “…evidence, produced by NGOs, industry, and some scholars, suggests that under certain circumstances, in some sectors, audit schemes can lead to limited improvements; however, even these studies reveal the impact of audits to be uneven and mixed across issues (Barrientos & Smith, 2007; Locke, 2013).”
‘Labour Chains’: Analysing the Role of Labour Contractors in Global Production Networks (2013, background): “…Kaur Sapra (2003); Barrientos and Kritzinger (2004); Frances, Barrientos, and Rogaly (2005); Verité (2005, 2010); Deshingkar (2006); Pollard (2006); Barrientos and Smith (2007); Crisan (2007); Business for Social Responsibility (BSR, 2008); Maher (2009). these various case studies helps to form a…”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Garment Sourcing Networks: Factory Management Perspectives on Ethical Trade in Sri Lanka (2015, background): “Although freedom of association and collective bargaining are enshrined in the Core Conventions of the ILO (International Labour Organisation), the upholding of these rights in developing country production locations is often problematic and uneven (Barrientos and Smith, 2007).”
Do codes of conduct improve worker rights in supply chains? A study of Fair Wear Foundation (2015, background): “Third, despite this lack of studies involving larger samples of suppliers, the view is widespread that codes have uneven impact, i.e., codes are presented as improving outcome standards but not process rights (Barrientos and Smith, 2007).”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters: Why Governance Matters (2014, background): “…often find themselves confronted by conflicting demands from global buyers, which seek lower labor costs while simultaneously requiring suppliers to comply with higher quality or social standards that would incur additional expenditures (Barrientos and Smith 2007; Lund-Thomsen and Pillay 2012).”
Women ’ s economic empowerment and inclusive growth : labour markets and enterprise development (2012, positive): “Elsewhere the impact has often been cosmetic: an evaluation of ETI by Barrientos and Smith (2007), for instance, found apart from limited action in the area of health and safety, there had been little change in labour practices in a variety of different sectors in a variety of different countries.”
Clusters, Chains and Compliance: Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance in Football Manufacturing in South Asia (2010, background): “…much emphasis in the GVC literature on investigating how global lead firms implement codes of conduct throughout their supply chains and exploring how CSR codes affect working conditions (Barrientos and Smith, 2007; ETI, 2006; Locke and Romis, 2007; Locke et al., 2007, 2009; Nelson et al., 2007).”
Power, inequality and corporate social responsibility: The politics of ethical compliance in the South Indian garment industry (2009, background): “A burgeoning literature has emerged that concerns itself with the definition and classification of such codes and standards (ibid), their implementation by multi national companies and producing firms (Nadvi 2004), and their relative success in improving conditions of work for male and f emale worke”
Revisiting Supplier Compliance with MNC Codes of Conduct: Recoupling Policy and Practice at Chinese Toy Suppliers (2014, methodology): “For example, in a study of the effectiveness of the Ethical Trading Initiative, Barrientos and Smith (2007) find that improvements have been made in occupational health and safety, working hours, and other outcome standards, while little progress has been made in process standards, such as freedom…”
From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains (2014, background): “conventions which include what Barrientos and Smith (2007) call process rights: fundamental rights to freedom of association (ILO convention No.”
Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries (2012, background): “A second set of studies has focused on gender discrimination in employment in high-value supply chains and the impact of codes-of-conduct on gender discrimination and workers’ wellbeing (Barrientos and Smith, 2007; Barrientos et al., 2003; Nelson et al., 2007).”