This edited collection critically explores the efforts of the apparel industry to improve safety conditions and suggests governance reforms that will resolve lingering issues. The volume examines two consortia: the Alliance and the Accord, which set up cooperative auditing systems of supplying...

Part I: International Trade, Multinationals and Labor -- Part II: Social Policy -- Part III: International Labor Standards; Raising the Floor of Labor Rights; Labor Unionism and Industrial Relations -- Part IV: Labor Market Challenges, The New Workplace, Informal Employment and Skills Training.

This book is a comprehensive study underpinned by thirty years of research conducted by the author relating to Japanese human resource management and labour-management relations. Its aim is to achieve a better understanding of the Japanese model for human resource management and labour standards...

Unternehmensverantwortung - zwischen Freiwilligkeit und Regulierung -- Staatliche Schutzpflicht und Rechtsschutz in Europa, insbesondere in Deutschland -- Mangelnder Schutz der Betroffenen in ausgwählten Produktionsländern -- Freiwillige CSR Initiativen zur Umsetzung von...

Economic globalization is a complex phenomenon where the links between social security expenditures and globalization are not well understood so far. This study summarizes new key findings and highlights new theoretical insights in the field of social security systems, labor standards, taxation...

This book brings together the work of international economist, labour economists and sociologists in a far-reaching study of global production networks and the challenges they pose for developing country workers. A number of both empirical and theoretical questions are addressed and answers are...

1. Introduction,- 2. Theories of Discrimination -- 3. The Development of the Printing Industry: Workers' and Employers' Organisation -- 4. Missed Opportunities: The Failure of Union Solidarity in the Struggle for Control of the Labour Process -- 5. Gender or Skill: The Continuation of Segregated...

Das Zukunftsprojekt "Industrie 4.0", das ein zentrales Element der Hightech-Strategie der Bundesregierung darstellt, zielt auf die Informatisierung der klassischen Industrien, wie z. B. der industriellen Produktion. Auf dem Weg zum Internet der Dinge soll durch die Verschmelzung der virtuellen...

This book addresses the contemporary aspects of employee voice through theoretical and practical analysis. In addition to case studies of employee voice in the workplace, it also looks at emerging forms of voice associated with the use of technology such as social media. Because of the breadth...