Promoting workers' rights along global supply chain: the role of private regulations (original) (raw)

Under the impulse of globalization, transnational companies (TNCs) outsourced their activities to low-cost production sites -the so-called sweatshops -where domestic labor legislation had been traditionally ineffective and working conditions deplorable. However, as blatant violations hit the headlines, TNCs could no longer ignore the conditions borne by workers. Hence, pushed by consumers, international organizations, unions, non-governmental organization (NGOs) and other civil society groups, TNCs had to commit themselves to protect workers' rights along global supply chains. They thus turned such commitment to stone through the adoption of voluntary regulations, such as codes of conduct and international framework agreements (IFAs).

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