ID 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Living Wage, Sri Lanka, Soft Law

• School: Clark University
• Department: International Development and Social Change
• Course: ID 125
• Professor: Cynthia Caron

Document Summary

Lobbying for social causes in global trade agreements (ilo) Report to buyers / brands that purchase clothing. Brands /buyers dont own the factories that manufacure their goods. Private voluntary regulation factories /workers vollunteer to monitoring themselves. Freedom of association and protection of the right to organize convention, Has not signed on to this law for it to have any impact. Right to organize + collective barganing convention. Workers will enjoy protection against anti union discrimination. Field visits to 120 factories in 14 countries. Tale of 2 factories : nike subcontractors, mexico. Wokers as things able to be controlled. Relationship with nike not based on trust. Pressure to produce more cheaply, quicker, better. Visiting factories daily + working on factory floor. Global scandal, 80s ---> forces suppliers to adhere to a code of conduct. Capability mdoel which assumes a mutually re-inforcing code of conduct. Garment factories play a significant role in country s economic deveopment + growth stratefy.