The Bangladesh Fire and Safety Accord: a major step forward in achieving workers' rights? -- Self governance: the challenges and limitations of corporate social responsibility -- Governance of global production networks -- Prospects for workers' rights in China -- A way forward?

This paper investigates the effects of multinational corporations on labor standards. We argue that the previous literature has failed to distinguish the different motives that encourage firms to become multinational. Therefore, we build a stylized model of segmented labor markets with...