Corporations have increasingly turned to voluntary, multi-stakeholder governance programs
to monitor workers' rights and standards in global supply chains. This article argues that the …

Private, voluntary compliance programs, promoted by global corporations and
nongovernmental organizations alike, have produced only modest and uneven …

Purpose Firms are accountable for upholding worker rights and well-being in their supply
base. The authors unpack the evolution in lead firm thinking and practice about how to …

Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains examines the effectiveness
of corporate social responsibility on improving labor standards in global supply chains …

Codes of conduct are the main tools to privately regulate worker rights in global value
chains. Scholars have shown that while codes may improve outcome standards (such as …

Wages–the monetary payments that workers receive from employers in exchange for their
labour–are widely overlooked in academic and policy debates about human rights and …

Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) are increasingly used as a default mechanism to address
human rights challenges in a variety of industries. MSI is a designation that covers a broad …

Does private regulation of workers' rights in global value chains improve working conditions
on the factory floor? Drawing on one of the first systematic longitudinal studies of supplier …

Over the last decade, the norm of corporate accountability for labour standards in global
supply chains has become increasingly prominent within the transnational governance …

This book examines and evaluates various private initiatives to enforce fair labor standards
within global supply chains. Using unique data (internal audit reports and access to more …