Paradoxes of Transnational Labour Rights Campaigns
The Case of Play Fair in Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3884468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felix Hauf (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 987-1006 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12321 |
| OpenAlex | W2740937556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 18 |
Neoliberal globalization has moved industrial production to low-wage countries such as China or Indonesia, fuelling rapid economic growth and rising national income. New employment opportunities, however, have been under-pinned by poverty wages and inhumane working conditions as states 'race to the bottom' in terms of labour rights and regulations in order to be competitive and attract capital investment. Labour agency at the bottom of transnational supply chains is often said to be structurally powerless because of the international mobility of capital. The 'boomerang effect' has often been presented as a remedy that increases local bargaining power in the global South by mobilizing consumer pressure in the global North through multi-stakeholder initiatives or transnational advocacy networks. The problem with this perspective is that it overstates the Northern dimension of this transnational politics and underestimates the local power base of Southern trade unions and labour movements. The incipient debate about Networks of Labour Activism (NOLA) aims to overcome this Northern bias. This article contributes to this debate by highlighting some of the limitations and unintended effects of multi-stakeholder initiatives and taking a closer look at the Play Fair alliance and the 'Freedom of Association Protocol' in Indonesia's athletic footwear industry
Agency (philosophy) · Bargaining power · Capital (architecture) · Economics · Freedom of association · Globalization · Human rights · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Race to the bottom · Sociology · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
Anxiety and Ambivalence
Promise and pitfalls of mandatory due diligence for enhancing worker power in global value chains
Multinationals, international business, and poverty
Rebalancing power between (civil) society and corporations
Sustaining transnational activism between Indonesia and Hong Kong
Advocating Workers' Collective Rights
Reflexive Grounded Theory
Forces of Labor
The Gentle Art of Retroduction
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
Towards a Cultural Political Economy
Workers’ rights and corporate accountability – the move towards practical, worker-driven change for sportswear workers in Indonesia
Adventures of Emancipatory Labour Strategy as the New Global Movement Challenges International Unionism
Local Worker Struggles in the Global South
Theory and practice of labour-centred development
Towards an International Social Movement Unionism
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
Global production networks
Beyond decoupling
Understanding the New Labor Movements in the 'Third World
Operationalizing cultural political economy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |