In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor.
An Econlit search of keywords “child lab* r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles …

Current scholarship suggests that instead of fueling deregulation and a race to the bottom,
globalization and neoliberalism often go hand in hand with the expansion of regulatory rules …

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment
associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the …

The essay theorizes the responsibilities moral agents may be said to have in relation to
global structural social processes that have unjust consequences. How ought moral agents …

Corporate codes of labour practice have proliferated as a result of trade union and ngo
campaigns against poor labour conditions in global production. Analysis of global …

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

This much needed textbook examines the multiple dimensions to corporate responsibility. It
creates a framework that presents a historical and interdisciplinary overview of the field; a …

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 …

Using a unique data set based on factory audits of working conditions in over 800 of Nike's
suppliers across 51 countries over the years 1998–2005, the authors explore whether …

We provide new evidence on consumer demand for ethical products from experiments
conducted in a US grocery store chain. We find that sales of the two most popular coffees …