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Pearson, Ruth and Seyfang, Gill 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4696-0798
(2001)
New hope or false dawn?: Voluntary codes of conduct, labour regulation and social policy in a globalizing world.
Global Social Policy, 1 (1).
pp. 48-78.
Abstract
This article maps the complex and fast-changing terrain of voluntary corporate codes of conduct, self-regulatory measures increasingly adopted by firms as a response to concerns about working conditions in global production chains. It considers their origins, their potentials and weaknesses, and finally their implications for the restructuring of social policy in a globalizing world. Despite there being considerably more rhetoric about codes than good practice, the processes through which codes have been developed has brought positive impacts in terms of highlighting the needs and voices of hitherto excluded groups of workers (women export workers, homeworkers, casual workers) in social policy and labour regulation debates.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Resources, Sustainability and Governance (former - to 2018) |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Snow |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Apr 2011 07:48 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2023 02:07 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/29411 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/146801810100100104 |
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