Die Reinigungskräfte sind eine besonders gefährdete Arbeitnehmergruppe, die vor Ausbeutung wenig gefeit ist. Gerade dort, wo gering Qualifizierte und Personen mit Migrationshintergrund arbeiten, kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass Sozialstandards unterlaufen werden, da sich diese Gruppe ihrer...

Introduction : dis-organizing labour in the clothing industry in the Asia Pacific / Vicki Crinis and Adrian Vickers -- The fragmentation of the clothing and textile trade union movement in Malaysia / Vicki Crinis -- Scrutinizing the effectiveness of trade unions in post-socialist Vietnam / Anne...

Introduction -- The chain and the sweatshop -- The commodity & the sweatshop -- Difference & the sweatshop -- The regional lord & the sweatshop -- The broker & the sweatshop -- The body & the sweatshop -- Conclusions

An effect of the informalization of production and distribution processes affecting the garment industry has been the spread of sweatshops in areas of industrial eclipse. Whilst the proliferation of these economies is usually analyzed as an outcome of sweeping macro trends, such as the...

The Bangladesh Fire and Safety Accord: a major step forward in achieving workers' rights? -- Self governance: the challenges and limitations of corporate social responsibility -- Governance of global production networks -- Prospects for workers' rights in China -- A way forward?

It is four years since the previous estimates. Its focus is on the presentation of the new round of child labour estimates for 2012, to identify the trends from 2000 to 2012, and to set out some pointers on the way forward the international target of eliminating the worst forms of child labour...

Workers in Asian factories producing for Western markets suffer under inhumane working conditions. Suicides at Chinese suppliers of computer manufacturers and a fire in a Bangladesh garment factory recently drew public attention to this problem. But would workers in developing countries really...

What characterizes successful transnational advocacy work in the EU context? Under what conditions may international civil society networks influence European legislative processes? To answer these questions this article tells the story of an advocacy network in the field of corporate financial...