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Protecting the Workforce - A Defense of Workers' Rights in Global Supply Chains (Paperback)
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Protecting the Workforce - A Defense of Workers' Rights in Global Supply Chains (Paperback)
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This book showcases the inequalities experienced between the Global
North and the Global South by exploring the production and
distribution model of goods and services worldwide through an
analysis of why the structure, framework, and interconnectedness of
global supply chains increases the persistence of worker rights'
violations. The narrative explains the power relationships between
multinational corporations, their subcontractors, governments,
non-governmental organizations, labor unions, and workers. The text
focuses primarily on competition between workers in the Global
South and the Global North who are compelled to work in global
supply chains for their survival and takes a macro-look at how
global supply chains operate, how they are governed, who invests
and why, and who wins and who loses. From the workers' perspective,
the text highlights the millions of low-wage workers who suffer
exploitation and abuse at the hands of greedy multi-national
corporations who are able to distance themselves from any liability
for workers' welfare through an institutional system created by
national/state governments, trade agreements, and tax and
investment strategies which protect property rights over workers'
rights. The fragile plight of workers crescendos through examples
of exploitation and abuse in the fishing, mining, apparel,
electronic and manufacturing industries, focusing events of
workplace disasters, and slave-like working conditions, then
climaxes by providing strategies to help strengthen workers through
legislative and policy initiatives, collective action, and social
and public pressure.
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