Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and
environmental degradation in global industries, leading many large
retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness and
sustainability. This book is about the idea that transnational
corporations can push these standards through their global supply
chains, and in effect, pull factories, forests, and farms out of
their local contexts and up to global best practices. For many
scholars and practitioners, this kind of private regulation and
global standard-setting can provide an alternative to regulation by
territorially-bound, gridlocked, or incapacitated nation states,
potentially improving environments and working conditions around
the world and protecting the rights of exploited workers,
impoverished farmers, and marginalized communities. But can
private, voluntary standards actually create meaningful forms of
regulation? Are forests and factories around the world actually
being made into sustainable ecosystems and decent workplaces? Can
global norms remake local orders? This book provides striking new
answers by comparing the private regulation of land and labor in
democratic and authoritarian settings. Case studies of sustainable
forestry and fair labour standards in Indonesia and China show not
only how transnational standards are implemented 'on the ground'
but also how they are constrained and reconfigured by domestic
governance. Combining rich multi-method analyses, a powerful
comparative approach, and a new theory of private regulation, Rules
without Rights reveals the contours and contradictions of
transnational governance. Transformations in Governance is a major
new academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is
designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in
comparative politics, international relations, public policy,
federalism, environmental and urban studies concerned with the
dispersion of authority from central states up to supranational
institutions, down to subnational governments, and side-ways to
public-private networks. It brings together work that significantly
advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and
consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is
selective, containing annually a small number of books of
exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The
series targets mainly single-authored or co-authored work, but it
is pluralistic in terms of disciplinary specialization, research
design, method, and geographical scope. Case studies as well as
comparative studies, historical as well as contemporary studies,
and studies with a national, regional, or international focus are
all central to its aims. Authors use qualitative, quantitative,
formal modeling, or mixed methods. A trade mark of the books is
that they combine scholarly rigour with readable prose and an
attractive production style. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe
and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.
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