Mridula Udayagiri, Naila Kabeer
In this path breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers to shed light on the question of what constitutes fair competition in international trade. She argues that if the unhealthy coalition of multinationals and labour movements is truly seeking t...
Joe Bandy, Jackie Smith
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Cooperation and Conflict in Transnational Protest Part 3 I Movements and Challenges Chapter 4 Gendering Transnational Social Movement Analysis: Women's Groups Contest Free Trade in the Americas Chapter 5 Building a Transnational Environmental Justice Moveme...
* Foreword Susan V. Berresford. * Introduction Amrita Basu. Asia * Discovering the Positive Within the Negative: The Womens Movement in a Changing China Naihua Zhang with Wu Xu. * From Chipko to Sati: The Contemporary Indian Womens Movement Radha Kumar. * Men in Seclusion, Women in Public: Rokeyas D...
David Brady, Jason Beckfield, Martin Seeleib‐Kaiser
Previous scholarship is sharply divided over how or if globalization influences welfare states. The effects of globalization may be positive causing expansion, negative triggering crisis and reduction, curvilinear contributing to convergence, or insignificant. We bring new evidence to bear on this d...
Jimmy Donaghey, Juliane Reinecke
Abstract Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Industrial Democracy are two paradigmatic approaches to transnational labour governance. They differ considerably with regard to the role accorded to the representation of labour. CSR tends to view workers as passive recipients of corporate‐led init...
Hanna Papanek
Women adapt in different ways to the demands of their husbands' occupations. In the United States, the "two-person single career" is a special combination of roles whereby wives are inducted by the institutions employing their husbands into a pattern of vicarious achievement. The two-person career p...
Juliane Reinecke, Jimmy Donaghey
Global labour governance has typically been approached from either industrial relations scholars focusing on the role of organised labour or social movement scholars focusing on the role of social movement organisations in mobilising consumption power. Yet, little work has focused on the interaction...
Mark Anner
This article seeks to examine two inter-related dynamics, the relationship between the international dispersion of apparel production and labor control regimes, and the relationship between labor control regimes and patterns of worker resistance. The article argues that where apparel production has ...
V. Spike Peterson
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments I am grateful to Georgina Waylen for her generosity in sharing prepublication work with me; and to Drucilla Barker, Jen Cohen, Deb Figart, Ellen Mutari, Julie Nelson, Paulette Olsen and Ara Wilson for conference discussions reg...
Geraldine Healy, Harriet Bradley, Cynthia Forson
Using Acker's conceptual framework of inequality regimes, this article explores the experiences of Bangladeshi, Caribbean and Pakistani women working in three parts of the public sector: health, local government and higher education. Our concern is to investigate how inequality regimes are sustained...
Barry Reilly, Pierella Paci, P. Holl
Abstract This paper exploits the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey from 1990 (WIRS3) to examine the determinants of workplace injuries for a sample of manufacturing establishments in the UK. A key focus of this paper is an assessment of the role played by union‐appointed safety representatives a...
Martin Seeleib‐Kaiser, Timo Fleckenstein
Abstract In this article we argue that Germany has significantly changed its approach to labour market policies (LMPs) during the past decade; in many instances Britain has served as a model to learn from. In a first step, we identify the core institutional arrangements of the conservative approach ...
Sardana Islam Khan, Timothy Bartram, Jillian Cavanagh, Md Sajjad Hossain et al.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the perspectives of 26 business owners, managers and supervisors on “decent work” (DW) in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative study draws on a framework of ethical human resource management and...
Ruth Pearson
Abstract Though there is now a great deal of attention to the question of women workers and Corporate Social Responsibility (csr), a more far reaching analysis, which is informed by feminist economics approaches, stresses the importance of the gendered nature of the institutional context in which va...
Alison L. Booth
Journal Article A Public Choice Model of Trade Union Behaviour and Membership Get access Alison Booth Alison Booth The City University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 376, 1 December 1984, Pages 883–898, https://doi.org/...