Governing Corporate Social Responsibility in the Apparel Industry after Rana Plaza

Anil Hira, Maureen Benson-Rea, Anil Hira, Maureen Benson-Rea

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781137601780
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137601797
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

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. 

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• About the Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Threads of Despair: An Argument for the Public Option in Garment Governance
• The Legacy of Rana Plaza: Improving Labour and Social Standards in Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry
• A Governance Deficit in the Apparel Industry in Bangladesh: Solutions to the Impasse?
• Anti-consumption and Governance in the Global Fashion Industry: Transparency is Key
• Index