`While many economists, policy-makers and commentators often point
at negative effects of globalization on wage inequality and income
distribution, few specific proposals have emerged so far. Daniel
Vaughan-Whitehead's book should be commended for proposing a
concrete approach for addressing the wage-related dimension of the
social issues raised by globalization---Pascal Lamy, Director
General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva`Remedies
should be found for the worrying global wage trends so well
documented in this book, not only by governments but by employers
themselves, out of enlightened self-interest rather than generous
benefaction, in the pursuit of long-term profitability. Daniel
shows that there is still much room for tapping the resources of
corporate social responsibility: this potential must be exploited
to the full before anything else, and therefore it must be
investigated and publicized the way he does.'---D. Mario Nuti,
Professor, University of Rome `La Sapienza' and formerly of the
London Business School `This is an exceptionally important and
timely piece of work for the simple reason that it brings to our
attention a global crisis - that of unfair wages. In this volume,
Daniel provides an excellent analytical framework and tool that can
be applied at firm level. I fully expect that the different
dimensions of the fair wage proposed in this book will become
standard features of company annual wage reviews and of social
audits.'- Auret Van Heerden, President and CEO, Fair Labor
Association Over the past decade the emergence of corporate social
responsibility (CSR) has helped to improve corporate governance by
tackling such burning issues as child labour and human rights
violations. However, as the author argues in this important new
book, the time has now come to incorporate wage issues into CSR.
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead proposes a new methodology, the `Fair
Wage' approach, providing CSR actors with a coherent and
comprehensive set of fair wage dimensions and indicators.
Application of this new approach in a large-scale auditing exercise
on wages in Asia and a number of qualitative case studies in China
provides unique, first-hand information on wage practices among
suppliers. The results confirm the need to address wage issues
using a broad spectrum of wage dimensions, including living wages,
minimum wages, social dialogue, payment of working hours and wage
development in accordance with prices, enterprise performance and
changes in technology and human capital. The `Fair Wage' approach
advocated in this book is a first, serious and concerted effort to
address the issue of wages, which are increasingly being used as
the adjustment variable at the end of the supply chain.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
