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Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvSabrina Zajak

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The book presents a novel multi-level approach capturing how trade unions and labor rights NGOs have mobilized along different pathways while attempting to influence labor standards in Chinese supply chains since 1989: within the ILO, within the European Union, leveraging global brands or directly supporting domestic labor rights NGOs.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-01-19
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNon-Governmental Public Action
Antal sidor286
Upplaga17001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349950218

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Sabrina Zajak is Junior Professor of Globalization Conflicts, Social Movements, and Labor at the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She is Founding Member of the Institute for Protest ad Social Movement Research in Berlin and Head of the research group "Transnational Alliances between Social Movements and Trade Unions in Europe". Her other research focuses on protests in Germany and pathways of labor rights activism between Asia and Europe in a comparative perspective.

1. Introduction: Multilevel labor activism, transnational institutions, and China .- 2. Defining the shadow of the dragon: China’s internal and external strength .- 3. The international-organizational pathway: The case of the ILO .- 4. The bilateral pathway: The European Union and China .- 5. The market pathway .- 6. The civil society pathway .- 7. Conclusion: Labor transnationalism in global markets and plural institutional settings.

“This is a very good book, and I liked the book a lot after reading it. … The rich information of this book makes it an excellent introduction to the field as well as to the case of China. Zajak is no doubt a first-rate labor scholar, and this book will be a must read to anyone interested in transnational activism or labor-rights activism in China.” (Dingxin Zhao, Mobilization, Vol. 22, September, 2017)