Codes of conduct: challenges and opportunities for workers' rights.

From: Social Justice | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY HAS BROUGHT NEW CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO THE struggle of workers; the movement toward company codes of conduct and workplace monitoring present both. (1) Although it is a new phenomenon for private enterprises to investigate labor conditions, U.S. companies have long adopted codes of conduct that regulate the operations of their production facilities abroad. Concern over the behavior of multinational corporations in developing countries, where such corporations sometimes influence national politics, destroy the environment, and perpetuate labor ...

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