Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights

Preface, Richard Howitt MEP * Introduction * Part One: Codes of Conduct and Global Deregulation � The Political Economy of Codes of Conduct * Labour Rights/Corporate Responsibilities: The Role of ILO Labour Standards * 'I'll Tell You What I want�': Women Workers and Codes of Conduct * Mapping Codes Through the Value Chain: From Researcher to Detective * Part Two: Codes of Conduct � Perspectives from Stakeholders on the Global Production Chains. Stakeholders Perspectives: Beyond Codes: Lessons from the Pentland Experience * The International Trade Union Movement and the New Codes of Conduct * The Emperor's New Clothes: What Codes Mean for Workers in the Garment Industry * Can Codes of Conduct Help Home-based Workers * Regional Perspectives: 'Made in China': Rules and Regulations Versus Codes of Conduct in the Toy Sector * The Contradiction in Codes: The Sri Lankan Experience * The Potential of codes as Part of Women's Organizations' Strategies for Promoting the Rights of Women Workers: a Central American Perspective. * The Fox Guarding the Chicken Coop: Garment Industry Monitoring in Los Angeles * Practical Issues in Developing and Implementing Codes: Working with Codes: Perspectives from the Clean Clothes Campaign * ETI: a Multi-stakeholder Approach * Monitoring the Monitors: a Critique of the Third-party Labour Monitoring * Code Monitoring in the Informal Fair Trade Sector: The Experience of Oxfam GB * Appendix 1: Useful Web Sites * Index