Power, Participation, and Private Regulatory Initiatives
«This volume exposes power imbalances that underpin and undermine the efficacy of various private initiatives aimed at regulating human rights abuses in global supply chains. The editors and many authors rightly stress the need to dismantle the current system, which tends to legitimize these asymmetries experienced by workers and affected communities.»
Surya Deva, City University of Hong Kong
From unsafe working conditions in garment manufacturing to the failure to consult indigenous communities with regard to extractive industries that affect them, human rights violations remain a pervasive aspect of the global economy. Les mer
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This volume brings together academics and practitioners from a number of regions throughout the world to engage in theoretical analysis, case study exploration, and reflection on a variety of PRIs. Theorizing outward from the work of practitioners and activists on the ground, the book brings essential but often overlooked questions to the scholarly debates on business, human rights, and global governance.
Ultimately, the contributions coalesce around one basic claim: that the inequalities and disparities of power and wealth that are a key characteristic of the contemporary global economy can also mark the origins and operation of PRIs, and do so to varying degrees. The collection highlights the need for discussions about labor, environmental, and other human rights accountability to be situated within a broader analysis of the political economy of contemporary supply chain capitalism. It seeks to enrich discussions of PRIs by bringing into the conversation concerns about distributive justice and political economy.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780812253214
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«This volume exposes power imbalances that underpin and undermine the efficacy of various private initiatives aimed at regulating human rights abuses in global supply chains. The editors and many authors rightly stress the need to dismantle the current system, which tends to legitimize these asymmetries experienced by workers and affected communities.»
Surya Deva, City University of Hong Kong