The Political Economy of Private and Public Regulation in Post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3479958 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Bair (0000-0002-5083-1385, corresponding author), Mark Anner (0000-0002-6822-2166), Jeremy Blasi (Jennifer Bair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Virginia. Mark Anner is an Associate Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University, and the Director of the Center for Global Workers Rights. Jeremy Blasi is General Counsel of UNITE HERE Local 11 and a non-resident Research Fellow, Center for Global Workers Rights, Pennsylvania State University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 969-994 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019793920925424 |
| OpenAlex | W3033664362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 39 |
How do public and private labor governance regimes intersect in global supply chains and with what effects? Based on fieldwork in Bangladesh, including interviews with garment industry stakeholders, this article examines the main public and private regulatory reforms instituted in post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh: the Sustainability Compact and the Bangladesh Accord, respectively. Despite the Accord's substantial achievements in improving workplace safety, particularly relative to the progress achieved under the Compact, findings show that government and industry actors in Bangladesh have resisted the Accord's efforts to empower workers for fear that improved labor standards would threaten managerial control over one of the global garment industry's largest and cheapest labor forces. Rather than being an example of complementarity between private and public governance, or an effective substitution of one by the other, post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh represents an undermining of effective private regulation by a state opposed to pro-labor reforms
Business · Complementarity (molecular biology) · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Private sector · State (computer science) · Sustainability · Finance · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions
Rights without remedy
Social Protection as Technocratic Fix
Global Value Chains and Industrial Relations in the Global South
Shared Responsibility and Labor Rights in Global Supply Chains
Gendered exit and displacement
Green transition for whom? Garment production networks and the politics of climate crisis in Bangladesh
Strategic ESG Priorities and Materiality Assessments
Reporting What Matters, or Reporting What Looks Good? Materiality and Balance in Post–Rana Plaza Apparel Sustainability Disclosure
Searching for institutions
Du Rana Plaza au Covid‐19
Introduction – Des chaînes de valeur sous pression
Trois mécanismes de gouvernance pour remédier aux déficits de travail décent dans les chaînes de valeur mondiales
Utilisation de la transparence pour faire évoluer les relations entre capital et travail dans le secteur de l'habillement
Naissance, disparition et remplacement d'un dispositif de réglementation transnationale des questions sociales au Bangladesh
Promouvoir le pouvoir collectif des travailleurs dans les réseaux de production mondialisés
The Nexus Between Sources of Workers’ Power in the Garment Manufacturing Industries of Lesotho and Eswatini
Civil Society, Multiple Publics, and Relational Recognition
After Rana Plaza
Creating a local managerial regime in global context
Understanding global union repertoires of action
From Constructive Ambiguity to Escalating Commitment
Beyond structural injustice
Grievance Mechanisms in Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives
Grounding transnational business governance
Beyond contention
Sweatshops at work? An exploration through bibliometric analysis
Multi-stakeholder initiatives through the lens of labour regimes
How Students on College Campuses Created Opportunities for Workers in Sweatshops
The moderating role of temperature on the labor productivity-RMG exports nexus in an emerging economy
Can certification increase trade fairness and worker empowerment? Lessons from Fairtrade International-certified plantations in Ecuador
Global Solidarity, Global Worker Empowerment, and Global Strategy in the Anti-sweatshop Movement
Corporate labour standards and work quality
Labour Rights from Labour Wrongs? Transnational Compensation and the Spatial Politics of Labour Rights after Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza Garment Factory Collapse
Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry
The Europeanization of Wage Policy and Its Consequences for Labor Politics
Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm
Advocating for the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Against the Odds
Authoritarian innovations in labor governance
Labour Standards in Global Production Networks
Between Legitimacy and Cost
Marx, exploitation, and socioeconomic justice
Rules without Rights
Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Enforcement of Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains
Transnational Governance as the Layering of Rules
When Industrial Democracy Meets Corporate Social Responsibility — A Comparison of the Bangladesh Accord and Alliance as Responses to the Rana Plaza Disaster
Toward managed flexibility
The Theory of Economic Regulation
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
After Rana Plaza
Beyond factory safety
A Review of Private Regulation
Who is to blame
The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact
Outsourcing governance
Globalization, labor standards, and women's rights
Multi-stakeholder regulation
Making corporate self-regulation effective in developing countries
Complementary Labor Regulation
Do workers benefit from ethical trade? Assessing codes of labour practice in global production systems
From Varieties of Capitalism to Varieties of Activism
The NGO-Industrial Complex
Regulating factory safety in the Bangladeshi garment industry
Transnational governance and the re‐centered state
Transnational business governance interactions
International Allies, Institutional Layering and Power in the Making of Labour in Bangladesh
The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh
Labour Networks under Supply Chain Capitalism
Governance of Labor Standards in Australian and German Garment Supply Chains
Reinforcing the State
Corporate Social Responsibility and Freedom of Association Rights
Global Governance and Labor Rights
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |