This book chapter considers the potential of corporate labour practice codes of conduct and their associated processes for monitoring and enforcement to advance the protection of trade union rights, taking as a case study the three codes which most strongly intersect with the debate on Nike...

The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) propose that ‘non-state-based non-judicial grievance mechanisms' have an important role to play in remedying human rights violations linked to transnational business, in addition to state-based judicial and non-judicial...

Between 1991 and 2002 the international anti-sweatshop movement experienced significant growth. A series of interconnecting international networks developed, involving trade unions and non-government organisations in campaigns to persuade particular Transnational Corporations to ensure that...

This paper theorises the position of women footwear homeworkers through the lens of global production networks. Using data collected in India during 2011 to 2014, it illustrates the asymmetry of power between network actors, and attests to the poverty, invisibility and lack of acknowledgement...

Antenarrative research and writing techniques challenge scholars to look beyond pre-existing expectations as to which actors and processes are likely to be most influential and to resist limiting their narratives to relatively ordered and predictable plot sequences. Instead antenarrative draws...

This report examines the contribution of a non-judicial mechanism designed to encourage respect for freedom of association within Indonesia's export-oriented apparel and footwear sector. The Freedom of Association Protocol (the ‘Protocol') is a multi-party agreement created by Indonesian...