Governing Corporate Social Responsibility in the Apparel Industry after Rana Plaza

This Edited Collection Critically Explores The Efforts Of The Apparel Industry To Improve Safety Conditions And Suggests Governance Reforms That Will Resolve Lingering Issues. The Volume Examines Two Consortia: The Alliance And The Accord, Which Set Up Cooperative Auditing Systems Of Supplying Factories And Penalties For Non-compliance, And Include Funding To Help Factories Comply And For Workers If Factories Are Idled During Repairs, Though The Editors Raise Doubts About The Long-lasting Value Of Such Efforts. In The Wake Of The 2013 Rana Plaza Disaster, Leading Researchers Across Labor Relations And Industry Studies Tackle And Debate Such Issues, Giving Their Perspective Of How Multinationals Operating In Developing Countries Should Regulate Labor Standards In Order To Resolve And Improve The Substandard Working Conditions Under Which Much Of Our Clothing Is Made--page 4 Of Cover. Introduction / Anil Hira And Maureen Benson-rea -- Threads Of Despair: An Argument For The Public Option In Garment Governance / Anil Hira -- The Legacy Of Rana Plaza: Improving Labour And Social Standards In Bangladesh's Apparel Industry / Mustafizur Rahman And Khondaker Golam Moazzem -- A Governance Deficit In The Apparel Industry In Bangladesh: Solutions To The Impasse? / Mohammad Tarikul Islam, Amira Khattak, And Christina Stringer -- Anti-consumption And Governance In The Global Fashion Industry: Transparency Is Key / Michael S. W. Lee, Miriam Seifert, And Helene Cherrier. Anil Hira, Maureen Benson-rea, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Dedication"--"Acknowledgements"--"Contents"--"About the Contributors" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Introduction" -- "Introduction" -- "The Growing Importance of the Garment Industry in Bangladesh" -- "The Threads of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)" -- "Is This Time Different? Emergence of Accord and Alliance System of Safety Inspections" -- "Three Possible Governance Models for Supply Chains" -- "Concluding Remarks" -- "Note" -- "References" -- "Threads of Despair: An Argument for the Public Option in Garment Governance" -- "Introduction" -- "Shortcomings of the Accordâ#x80;#x93;Alliance Approach" -- "Accordâ#x80;#x93;Alliance Disharmony" -- "Continuing Reports of Labour Standards Issues" -- "Key Assessments" -- "Economics Perspectives" -- "Rights Perspectivesâ#x80;#x94;Role of the ILO" -- "Value Chain Perspectives" -- "Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective" -- "Introduction" -- "Corporate Codesâ#x80;#x94;Ratcheting Labour Standards (RLS) Theory" -- "The Development of Corporate Consortia and NGO Audits to Enforce Codesâ#x80;#x94;Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as a Model?" -- "NGO/Third Party Inspection is Not Enough" -- "Conclusionâ#x80;#x94;The Inadequacy of Private and NGO Solutions" -- "Governance Solutions" -- "Owners of the Bangladesh Textile Industry Block Real Change" -- "Workers are Hamstrung" -- "Lessons from Other Cases" -- "The Boomerang Effect Revisedâ#x80;#x94;Western Pressure by Governments and Consumers for Change" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "The Legacy of Rana Plaza: Improving Labour and Social Standards in Bangladeshâ#x80;#x99;s Apparel Industry" -- "Introduction" -- "Economic Perspectives on Changes in Labour and Social Standards in the Bangladesh Apparel Industry" -- "Labour and Social Standards during the Pre-Rana Plaza Period" -- "Rights-based Perspectives." Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-28 Threads of Despair: An Argument for the Public Option in Garment Governance....Pages 29-79 The Legacy of Rana Plaza: Improving Labour and Social Standards in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry....Pages 81-109 A Governance Deficit in the Apparel Industry in Bangladesh: Solutions to the Impasse?....Pages 111-145 Anti-consumption and Governance in the Global Fashion Industry: Transparency is Key....Pages 147-174 Back Matter....Pages 175-181