On the transformative capacity of private fair labour arrangements

Pekdemir, Ceren; Glasbergen, Pieter; Cörvers, Ron

doi:10.4337/9781784711467.00016

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“…In an ideal world, private governance would provide a substitute. However, the proliferation and fragmentation of labour governance structures and mechanisms in GSCs has arguably reduced their impact (Pekdemir et al, 2015). Many workers thus fall through the cracks and into a 'governance gap', where pressure from labour or customers is insufficient for private governance to be in place (Donaghey et al, 2014).…”

Section: The Emergence Of the Governance Gapmentioning

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Mind the gap: Grass roots ‘brokering’ to improve labour standards in global supply chains

Kaine

Josserand

2017

Human Relations

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While governance and regulation are a first step in addressing worsening working conditions in global supply chains, improving implementation is also key to reversing this trend. In this article, after examining the nature of the existing governance and implementation gaps in labour standards in global supply chains, we explore how Viet Labor, an emerging grass-roots organization, has developed practices to help close them. This involves playing brokering roles between different workers and between workers and existing governance mechanisms. We identify an initial typology of six such roles: educating, organizing, supporting, collective action, whistle-blowing and documenting. This marks a significant shift in the way action to improve labour standards along the supply chain is analysed. Our case explores how predominantly top-down approaches can be supplemented by bottom-up ones centred on workers’ agency.

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Section: The Emergence Of the Governance Gapmentioning

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Mind the gap: Grass roots ‘brokering’ to improve labour standards in global supply chains

Kaine

Josserand

2017

Human Relations

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“…This risk of capture problematizes research portraying the privatization of fundamental labor rights into codes of conduct as an effective means of circumventing state legal institutions that are unwilling, or unable, to uphold laborers’ rights (Pekdemir et al . ; Zandvliet & van der Heijden ). It equally raises red flags for other transpositive developments, such as the privatization, or “contractualization” of fundamental labor rights into novel, transnational framework agreements between transnational labor union federations and multinational corporations (Moreau ; Drouin ).…”

Section: Discussion: the Jurisgenerative Role Of Social Auditors In Tmentioning

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“…For every cluster of rules, FLA's Code of Conduct also contains general requirements to abide by national and international laws (Pekdemir et al . , pp. 220–221).…”

Section: Interpreting the Fair Labor Association's (Fla's) Freedom Ofmentioning

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Jurisgenerative role of auditors in transnational labor governance

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2018

Regulation & Governance

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This article builds on the model of regulatory intermediaries by incorporating insights from the field of legal hermeneutics about the process through which the meaning of a legal rule emerges. It describes how intermediaries can take on a jurisgenerative role in the development of legal rules through their interpretation of legal rules. This role is demonstrated through an analysis of social audits from Chinese and Vietnamese factories involved in the Fair Labor Association (FLA). The analysis illustrates how the integration of fundamental labor rights into the FLA's private Code of Conduct requires auditors to develop new interpretations of the Freedom of Association as a result of uncertainties and contradictions between legal requirements at various levels, as well as with the FLA's own rules. Through this empirical analysis, the article contributes to the literature by identifying regulatory intermediaries’ jurisgenerative capacities when they monitor fundamental labor rights referenced by private governance instruments. It further highlights why legal and regulatory governance scholars need to consider the transformative effects that transnational private labor governance may have on international labor law.

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“…The ensuing empirical analysis positions the governance system for regional organic agriculture within this context. In an earlier paper (see Pekdemir, Glasbergen, & Cörvers, 2015), a systemic approach was developed combining governance systems (as defined by Burns & Stöhr, 2011a, 2011bGuéneau, 2007;Jentoft, van Son, & Bjørkan, 2007) and the closely related organizational field approach (as defined by Dingwerth & Pattberg, 2009;Machado-da-Silva, Filho, & Rossoni, 2006;Smith & Fischlein, 2010). In this paper, this approach is applied to the regional regulatory system for organic production.…”

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“…This inability contributes to regulatory uncertainty. The topic of coherence on labour standards concerns the ILO, not in the least because other policies and standards often allure to ILO standards while not necessarily conforming to relevant or most recent conventions (e.g., ILO, 2016;Pekdemir, Glasbergen, & Cörvers, 2015). High-level officials from the ILO have expressed the urgent need for closer cooperation and coherence between the ILO, the IMF and the EU (Mola, 2016).…”

Section: Labour Rightsmentioning

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Navigating between fragmentation and cohesion

Pekdemir

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On the transformative capacity of private fair labour arrangements

Cited by 15 publications

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Mind the gap: Grass roots ‘brokering’ to improve labour standards in global supply chains

Mind the gap: Grass roots ‘brokering’ to improve labour standards in global supply chains

Jurisgenerative role of auditors in transnational labor governance

Navigating between fragmentation and cohesion

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