RT Article
T1 Codes of Conduct: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers' Rights
JF Social justice
VO 31
IS 3
SP 40
OP 59
A1 Esbenshade, Jill
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747158194
AB Part of a special issue on social justice for workers in the global economy. The evolution of the global apparel industry's codes of conduct and monitoring, from tools used by companies to protect their reputations to devices with the potential to improve working conditions and workers' right to unionize, is traced. The problems of private monitoring as a means for detecting labor exploitation and the role of independent monitoring in reshaping the debate are outlined. A case study of the BJ&B garment export-processing plant in the Dominican Republic is presented, with codes of conduct and independent monitoring highlighted as key elements in the workers' successful campaign to have the factory implement a collective bargaining contract and pay above the minimum wage.
K1 United Nations
K1 Labor policy
K1 International Relations
K1 Nineteen seventies
K1 International business enterprises
K1 Labor laws
K1 Labor
K1 Economics
K1 Exploitation
K1 Clothing industry
K1 Clothing industry personnel
K1 Clothing industry & ethics