Citizens, markets, and transnational labor activism -- Labor rights as human rights : regulation in the context of a "thinned" national state -- Monitoring multinationals : lessons from the anti-apartheid era -- Social labels, child labor, and monitoring in the Indian carpet industry --...

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...