Levi's Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global MarketplaceGrove Press, 2001 - 290 páginas Over the last decade, ugly allegations of corporate complicity in human-rights violations have exploded into one of the most controversial issues of our time. Companies are being held responsible by human-rights advocates for the injustices that are the unintended side effects of economic globalization: union repression in China, forced labor in Burma, child workers in Pakistan, and sweatshop abuse throughout the developing world. Using the story of Levi Strauss and Company as a guide, Karl Schoenberger offers a highly readable assessment of the challenge that the human-rights scourge poses to international business. Schoenberger is sensitive to the interests of activists, politicians, and multinationals, and as a result his call for active corporate engagement and rigorous accountability in promoting the rights of overseas workers carries enormous resonance. Simultaneously impassioned and evenhanded, Levi's Children is a work of profound importance, one that may help us chart our course in the next century. Thorough, well-informed and chatty ... Schoenberger's conclusion is intriguing. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review |
Contenido
True West | 5 |
Slaves to Fashion | 38 |
East of the Equator | 77 |
Breakfast of Champions | 107 |
Human Rights for Sale | 133 |
Putting a Price on Social Responsibility | 155 |
Manchurian Candidates | 185 |
Ethics by Stealth | 217 |
EPILOGUE | 234 |
NOTES | 243 |
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Levi Strauss Co Global Sourcing Operating Guidelines | 265 |
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 271 |
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Levi's Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace Karl Schoenberger Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
abuse allegations American apparel industry Asia Asian Beijing billion blue jeans Bob Haas Burma business in China business partners campaign child labor Chinese code of conduct company's constructive engagement consumers contractors corporate social responsibility critical decision developing economic employees ethical executive Fair Labor Association foreign freedom garment Grebey Hong Kong human rights activists human rights policy investment investors issues Japan Japanese Kamm Kofi Annan labor rights labor standards leaders Levi Strauss Levi's Levi's brand Levi's jeans major manufacturing ment moral Myanmar NGOs Nike officials operations overseas pany percent personal interview plant political practices president principles prison problems production profits protect Rangoon Reebok release retail risk Robert Haas Saipan San Francisco Chronicle sanctions Sialkot soccer ball society South sweatshop telephone interview terms of engagement Tiananmen tion trade unions United Unocal values violations wages workers
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