<i>Labor History</i>symposium: Gay W. Seidman,<i>Beyond the Boycott</i>

Anner, Mark; Voss, Kim; Buhlungu, Sakhela; Robinson, Ian

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“…The result of these struggles has been a variety of monitoring regimes, with widely varying elements and/or requirements. According to Gay Seidman (Anner et al. 2008), independent monitoring is really considered the “gold standard” of CSR (366).…”

Section: Variety Of Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researchers have generally had more praise for independent monitors than privately contracted ones. Both Mark Anner (Anner et al. 2008) and Esbenshade (2004a,b) contrast commercial monitors who are paid by the brands to independent monitors who are not.…”

Section: Evaluating Codes/monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Esbenshade (2008) emphasizes that the DSP has the potential to address industry practices that continue to undermine monitoring, by requiring brands to stabilize their supplier base with fewer and more long‐term contracts and by requiring fair pricing. Ian Robinson (Anner et al. 2008) claims that the reason consumer‐based strategies have not been effective is not because consumers are unreliable, as Seidman (2007) and Wells (2007) argue, but because consumers do not have a reliable system to evaluate no‐sweat claims, which the DSP would provide.…”

Section: Evaluating Codes/monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars generally have little faith in consumers as the driving force behind change, portraying them as fickle at best and ultimate bargain hunters at worst (Armbruster‐sandoval 2005; Seidman 2007). While Robinson (Anner et al. 2008) claims consumers are committed to the anti‐sweatshop issue and will pay more, Wells (2007) dismisses the surveys on which this assessment is based as nothing more than spoken intentions without proven behavioral change.…”

Section: Major Debates: Ethical Consumerism Empowerment and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The resources of the individual consumer may also impinge upon ethical buying, as the efforts toward ethical production are happening not in Wal‐Mart but in the pricier realm of the American Apparels and $40 university logoed sweatshirts. Kim Voss (Anner et al. 2008), on the other hand, emphasizes that well‐orchestrated grassroots boycotts, like the grape boycott of the United Farm Workers, can collectivize individual decision‐making into a powerful force.…”

Section: Major Debates: Ethical Consumerism Empowerment and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Review of Private Regulation: Codes and Monitoring in the Apparel Industry

Esbenshade¹

2012

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews the last decade of scholarship on a leading corporate social responsibility initiative: the use of codes of conduct and monitoring in the global garment industry. The review focuses on three debates in the field: the evaluation of code and monitoring effectiveness, the problematic of various relationships in transnational anti-sweatshop campaigns, and the meaning of private regulation vis-a-vis state enforcement. The article concludes that codes and monitoring do not constitute a solution to the sweatshop problem and certainly cannot substitute for state enforcement or worker organizing. If private regulation is to contribute to a solution in a meaningful way, it must move from a model that presumes compliance and, therefore, focuses on ferreting out violators, to one that assumes non-compliance, and so concentrates on altering the structure of the industry.

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Section: Variety Of Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Evaluating Codes/monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Evaluating Codes/monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Major Debates: Ethical Consumerism Empowerment and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Major Debates: Ethical Consumerism Empowerment and Governancementioning

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A Review of Private Regulation: Codes and Monitoring in the Apparel Industry

Esbenshade¹

2012

Sociology Compass

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Beyond audit: the regulatory legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives in the apparel sector

Frishling

2023

Australian Journal of Human Rights

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First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge and thank my brilliant and inspirational supervisors: Professor Justine Nolan, Professor Dimity Kingsford Smith and Professor Bronwen Morgan. Justine, it has been a privilege to be guided by such a leading light in the field. Your broad and deep knowledge of, practical experience in, and passion for, business and human rights has served as a constant source of learning and inspiration. I am also incredibly grateful for your generosity as a mentor, and the way in which you have continuously connected me to people and opportunities for development over the years. Dimity, your mastery of regulatory theory helped me to perceive the challenges presented by this thesis in a new light and on a deeper level. Your incisive comments during the final stretch compelled me to step back and consider the thesis as an interconnected whole. Bronwen, your brilliant theoretical mind, penetrating insights and encouragement at just the right moments have been invaluable. Together, you have been my supervisory dream team.

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Life Chances: Labor Rights, International Institutions, and Worker Fatalities in the Global South

Kerrissey¹,

Schuhrke²

2016

Social Forces

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Labor Historysymposium: Gay W. Seidman,Beyond the Boycott

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

A Review of Private Regulation: Codes and Monitoring in the Apparel Industry

A Review of Private Regulation: Codes and Monitoring in the Apparel Industry

Beyond audit: the regulatory legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives in the apparel sector

Life Chances: Labor Rights, International Institutions, and Worker Fatalities in the Global South

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