Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Non-state actors as standard setters: framing the issue in an interdisciplinary fashion
- PART I New actors and processes in contemporary standard setting
- PART II The legitimacy and accountability of actors and standards
- PART III The authority and effectiveness of actors and standards
- 13 Standard setting for capital movements: reasserting sovereignty over transnational actors?
- 14 Certification as a new private global forest governance system: the regulatory potential of the Forest Stewardship Council
- 15 Private standards in the North – effective norms for the South?
- 16 International corporate social responsibility standards: imposing or imitating business responsibility in Lithuania?
- 17 Legal pluralism under the influence of globalisation: a case study of child adoption in Tanzania
- 18 Towards non-state actors as effective, legitimate, and accountable standard setters
- Index
- References
15 - Private standards in the North – effective norms for the South?
from PART III - The authority and effectiveness of actors and standards
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Non-state actors as standard setters: framing the issue in an interdisciplinary fashion
- PART I New actors and processes in contemporary standard setting
- PART II The legitimacy and accountability of actors and standards
- PART III The authority and effectiveness of actors and standards
- 13 Standard setting for capital movements: reasserting sovereignty over transnational actors?
- 14 Certification as a new private global forest governance system: the regulatory potential of the Forest Stewardship Council
- 15 Private standards in the North – effective norms for the South?
- 16 International corporate social responsibility standards: imposing or imitating business responsibility in Lithuania?
- 17 Legal pluralism under the influence of globalisation: a case study of child adoption in Tanzania
- 18 Towards non-state actors as effective, legitimate, and accountable standard setters
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Social standards and CSR policies
The globalised world offers companies opportunities to capitalise on global labour markets: production can be organised globally in proprietary businesses or by means of an elaborate supply chain. However, the transnational organisation of business activities can also entail substantial risks. Both the press and the public have increasingly taken an interest in events that occur in far-off parts of the world and these incidents can turn into risks in consumer markets in industrialised nations. Just imagine the following scenario: the Clean Clothes Campaign claims that, according to accounts by female workers, a Central American textile producer was locking pregnant women in the cafeteria as punishment for failing to reach their production targets. The factory was closed in 2005 after being unionised. Whilst these allegations are being heard in the courts of the Central American country in which they occurred (in cases brought by, among others, the local trade union), they have simultaneously reached the attention of the German public, because the textile producer in question supplies a sportswear company based in Germany. Human rights groups such as the Clean Clothes Campaign (but also the local union and a local women's association) have invoked, among other things, the German sportswear company's code of conduct, which guarantees compliance with national laws, protection against discrimination and freedom of association.
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