Handbook on Globalisation and Labour Standards

Edited by Kimberly Ann Elliott, Nonresident Fellow, Center for Global Development and Visiting Scholar, Institute for International Economic Policy, George Washington University, US

• Contents:1 Handbook on globalisation and labour: introduction and overview 1Kimberly Ann ElliottPART I INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STANDARDS UNDER GLOBALISATION2 Globalization and freedom of association and collective bargaining rights 13David Kucera and Dora Sari3 Globalization and the persistence of forced labor and child labor 36Eric V. Edmonds4 Work, gender and discrimination in global production 65Stephanie Barrientos5 Protecting the vulnerable: migration, work and human rights due diligence 85Janelle M. Diller6 Workers’ rights and human rights: toward a new fundamental principle? 108Zahra Yusifli and Colin Fenwick7 Human resource management and abuse in global supply chains 127Laura Babbitt, Drusilla Brown, Ana Antolin and Elyse Voegeli8 Prospects for labor-related upgrading in global supply chains 143Layna MosleyPART II PUBLIC APPROACHES TO PROTECTING LABOURSTANDARDS UNDER GLOBALISATION9 Sovereignty and the ILO 167Steve Charnovitz10 The 1998 ILO Declaration: responding to globalization and impactingcorporate labor behavior 184Janice R. Bellace11 The strategy and politics of linking trade and labor standards: anoverview of issues and approaches 204Sandra Polaski12 Evidence on the impact of labor provisions in preferential trade agreements 227Damian Raess13 Labor standards in EU and US preferential trade agreements:mainstreaming the trade–labor linkage 244Evgeny Postnikov14 Developing country responses to demands for improved laborstandards: case studies from the garment and textiles industry in Asia 257Sanchita Banerjee Saxena15 NAFTA’s lessons on labor standards and trade agreements 273Lance Compa16 Protecting the rights of migrant workers through trade mechanisms:lessons from NAFTA 296Kimberly A. Nolan García17 Enforcement of labor standards in trade agreements: the case of Guatemala 313Tequila J. Brooks18 Hard and soft law approaches to protecting worker rights 325Kimberly Ann ElliottPART III PRIVATE AND MULTI-STAKEHOLDER APPROACHES19 OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises 339Kenneth A. Reinert, Oda T. Reinert and Gelaye Debebe20 Pioneering a new approach to improving working conditions indeveloping countries: Better Factories Cambodia 358Raymond Robertson21 Sewing in the sand: how trade preferences created, and labor abusesnearly killed, the Jordanian garment industry 381Kevin Kolben22 Corporate social responsibility: codes, compliance and ESG ratings 399Tim Bartley23 The Bangladesh accord and alliance: addressing building safety throughglobal supply chain co-governance 414Mark Anner and Jennifer Bair24 Can blockchain solve the puzzle of labour standards implementation ininternational trade? 430Sangeeta Khorana and Hanna C. NorbergIndex

‘In this well-structured Handbook, Elliott has masterfully pulled together case studies and interdisciplinary reflections on globalisation and labour issues from the perspectives of business, economics, labour relations, international law, political science and sociology. The resulting volume provides a better understanding of the functioning of global value chains and the roles of public and private actors. Calling for more empirical work, the book points to the policy changes needed to arrive at improved working conditions worldwide.’