Mark Anner
Workers’ rights violations have been pervasive in many global supply chains. In the apparel sector, production workers often face precarious working conditions, including persistently low pay, excessive and often forced overtime, unsafe buildings, and repression of their right to form unions and bar...
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 ...
Jennifer Bair, Mark Anner, Jeremy Blasi
How do public and private labor governance regimes intersect in global supply chains and with what effects? Based on fieldwork in Bangladesh, including interviews with garment industry stakeholders, this article examines the main public and private regulatory reforms instituted in post-Rana Plaza Ba...
Mark Anner
Abstract The literature on global value chains (GVCs) has identified six governance mechanisms for addressing decent work deficits (Gereffi and Lee 2016). Drawing on research in Bangladesh, Honduras and Viet Nam, this article argues that the most effective governance mechanisms are those that mitiga...
Matthew Amengual, Sarosh Kuruvilla
[Excerpt] As we write this introductory essay on private regulation in global supply chains, we are in the midst of a pandemic caused by COVID-19. Beyond the health care crisis, the economic disruption is devastating. Millions of workers in global supply chains are losing their jobs as companies cut...
Mark Anner
Workers in global value chains are finding new strategies to address harsh working conditions in global supply chains. These strategies are shaped not only by the exigencies of hyper-competitive global production regimes, but also by state structures and local market conditions. The highly statist s...
Mark Anner
Apparel and agriculture are two sectors historically marked by extreme levels of exclusion and abuse of worker rights. Global trade regimes have protected developed market economies at the expense of developing countries, and lead firm consolidation in agriculture and apparel supply chains has creat...
1. Introduction Alexander Gallas Part I: The Challenge of Inequality 2. The Rise of Inequality Across the Globe: Drivers, Impacts and Policies for Change Tandiwe Gross, Frank Hoffer and Pierre Laliberte 3. Gender Inequality and the Labour Movement Akua O. Britwum 4. Trade Unions and the Challenge of...
Benedikt Lennartz
ABSTRACTScholars of global governance have long attended to the role of non-state actors in formulating and interpreting regulatory instruments, analysing these actors’ engagement with processes, their influence, and their preferences in terms of the content and, to a limited degree, form of regulat...
Mark Anner
The Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013 that killed 1,134 garment workers illustrated to the world the urgency of taking seriously the issue of safety and health at work, as noted by the 2019 ILO Commission's report. The question that remains is how to ensure effective implementation of safety stan...
Mark Anner
Resumen Los estudios sobre cadenas mundiales de valor identifican seis tipos de gobernanza para abordar los déficits de trabajo decente (Gereffi y Lee 2016). Sobre la base de sus investigaciones en el sector de la confección de Bangladesh, Honduras y Viet Nam, el autor sostiene que los más eficaces ...
Matthew M. Fischer-Daly, Jason Judd, Sarosh Kuruvilla
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 triggered disruptions across the apparel industry?s global supply chains. Operations halted in countries supplying material inputs, and retail demand plummeted. Apparel orders?some of them completed and already en route to brands and retailers?wer...
Mark Anner
Résumé Gereffi et Lee (2016) distinguent six mécanismes de gouvernance susceptibles de remédier aux déficits de travail décent dans les chaînes de valeur mondiales. En s'appuyant sur des travaux relatifs au Viet Nam, au Honduras et au Bangladesh, l'auteur affirme que, pour être véritablement efficac...
Syeda Noorjahan Karim, F M Saleh, Mokles Uddin, Prasun Biswas et al.
Oral cancer is a commonly occurring one worldwide. More than 90% of all oral cancers are squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The molecular biological markers of oral SCC have been extensively studied to aid in prevention and prognosis. However, no marker has been universally accepted so far. Mast cells a...