Global Business and Local Struggle

Tim Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Justice, University of Newcastle and Senior Research Fellow (Fractional), in the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law, University of Melbourne. Annie Delaney is a scholar of labour relations, specialising in gender and informal employment in global garment supply chains. Fiona Haines is Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. Kate Macdonald is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Melbourne. Shelley Marshall is a Professor in the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University, Australia.

• Introduction: inflated promises and small victories; 1. Two countries, three industries, ten stories of human rights grievance; 2. The promise of effective NJM design; 3. NJM design and human rights redress in practice; 4. A fields of struggle lens: power and countervailing power in struggles over community redress; 5. NJMs as sources of community leverage to combat business power; 6. NJMs and the conflicting roles of the State; 7. Key findings; 8. Prescriptive implications: towards more responsive redress?; References; Index.