Selected Articles and Report on Global Working Conditions
August–November 2010


As You Sow Foundation, Toward a Safe, Just Workplace: Apparel Supply Chain Compliance Programs, October 2010, posted at www.asyousow.org

As You Sow Foundation, Best Current Practices in Purchasing: The Apparel Industry, September 2010, posted at www.asyousow.org

Cividep, Changing Industrial Relations in India’s Mobile Phone Manufacturing Industry, September 2010, posted at www.somo.nl

Jenny Chan and Ngai Pun, Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers: Foxconn, Global Capital, and the State, September 15, 2010, posted at www.japanfocus.org/-Jenny-Chan/3408

China Labor Watch, Code of Conduct is No More than False Advertising, Disney Suppliers Continue Exploiting Chinese Workers, November 2010, posted at www.chinalaborwatch.org

China Labor Watch, Investigation Report of Two Walt Disney Factories, November 2010, posted at www.chinalaborwatch.org

China Labor Watch, An Investigation Report of Adidas Suppliers, Focusing on the Corporate Code of Conduct of International Corporations, October 28, 2010, posted at www.chinalaborwatch.org

China Labor Watch, Investigation of Illegal Conditions at Four Dollar General Supplier Sweatshops in China, August 10, 2010, posted at www.chinalaborwatch.org

Robert Dreyfuss, China in the Driver’s Seat: Progressives debate a new world order, The Nation, September 20, 2010, posted at www.thenation.com 

Ergon Associates Limited, Better Work: Electronics Feasibility Study, August 2010, posted at www.ergonassociates.net

European Coalition for Corporate Justice, Principles and Pathways: Legal Opportunities to Improve Europe’s Corporate Accountability Framework, November 29, 2010, posted at www.corporatejustice.org

European Coalition for Corporate Justice, Rights for Whom? Corporations, Communities and the Environment, November 2010, posted at www.corporatejustice.org

European Coalition for Corporate Justice, The Powerful & the Powerless; A case study of Unión Fenosa’s Electricity Monopoly in Columbia, October 2010, posted at www.corporatejustice.org

European Coalition for Corporate Justice, Failure to Communicate; A case study of steel conglomerate ArcelorMittal in South Africa, October 2010, posted at www.corporatejustice.org

Friends of Nature, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, Green Beagle (three non-governmental organizations in China), Green Choice Consumers Urge the I.T. Brands to Break Their Silence [Investigative Report on I.T. Industry, Heavy Metal Pollution (Phase III)], November 8, 2010, posted at www.goodelectronics.org

Global Exchange, Green America, International Labor Rights Forum, Oasis USA, Time to Raise the Bar: The Real Corporate Social Responsibility for the Hershey Company, September 2010, posted at www.laborrights.org

GoodElectronics, GoodElectronics general meeting: Sweatshop conditions abound in electronics industry, November 8, 2010, posted at www.goodelectronics.org

GoodElectronics and makeITfair, Open Letter to Nokia at the occasion of Nokia’s human rights summit, September 27, 2010, posted at www.goodelectronics.org

William Greider, The End of Free-Trade Globalization, The Nation, November 4, 2010, posted at www.thenation.com

MakeITFair, Voice from the Inside; Local views on mining reform in Eastern DR Congo, October 2010, posted at www.makeitfair.org

MakeITFair, List of Principle on the Extractive Phase of the Electronics Supply Chain, (first version February 2008, revised October 2010), October 2010, posted at www.makeitfair.org

Maplecroft, Labour standards remain critical risk for firms manufacturing in China, July 28, 2010, posted at www.maplecroft.com

Maquila Solidarity Network, Advances and setbacks in the fight for worker rights, Maquila Solidarity Update newsletter, December 2010, posted at www.maquilasolidarity.org

David Michaels, OSHA at Forty: New Challenges and New Direction, speech on July 19, 2010, posted at www.osha.gov

David Michaels, OSHA’s Return to Basics, speech on October 6, 2010, posted at www.osha.gov

National Labor Committee, Systematic Gross Violation of Human and Worker Rights Continue under the US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement, November 10, 2010, posted at www.nlcnet.org

National Labor Committee and CEADEL, A test case for the Guatemalan Government & the Office of the United States Trade Representative: Alianza Fashion, September 17, 2010, posted at www.nlcnet.org

Oxfam Australia, Resources for Students (games, curriculum kits, reading materials), Fall 2010, posted at www.oxgfam.org.au

Donguk Park, et. al., A Comprehensive Review of Arsenic Levels in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry, The Annuals of Occupational Hygiene, Vol. 54, Issue 8, pp 869-879

Sam Pizzigati, New Tally of Global Wealth Illuminates Staggering Disparities, posted on October 21, 2010, on Alternet, at www.alternet.org/module/printversion/148549

Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer, Tulane University, Fourth Annual Report; Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Section in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, September 30, 2010, posted at www.payson.tulane.edu

SACOM – Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, Workers of Disney Supplier are illegally dismissed, November 25, 2010, posted at www.sacom.hk

SACOM – Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, Another Suicide case at Foxconn reveals predicament of workers remains, November 12, 2010, posted at www.sacom.hk

SACOM – Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, Disney, Wal-Mart and ICTI, Together Make Workers Rights Violations Normal and Sustainable October 22, 2010, posted at www.sacom.hk

SACOM – Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, Workers as Machines: Military Management in Foxconn, October 12, 2010, posted at www.sacom.hk

SACOM – Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, Wal-Mart Supplier Produces Severed Fingers and Hands, August 18, 2010, posted at www.sacom.hk

SACOM – Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, Tolerating Violations in the ICTI CARE Process: Tianyu Toys Keeps Failing to Meet Standards, August 10, 2010, posted at www.sacom.hk

Nicholas Schmidle, Inside the Knockoff-Tennis-Show Factory, New York Times, August 19, 2010, accessible at www.nytimes.com

Kim Scipes, AFL-CIO’s Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?, Lexington Books, August 2010, available from www.lexingtonbooks.com

Moritz Siebert (producer), Blue Elephants (documentary film about migrant workers in the Malaysian electronics industry, available from www.weed-online.org

Suedwind Institute for Economics and Ecumenism, Women Working in the Shadows, March 2010, posted at www.suedwind-institut.de

SweatFree Communities, Enemies of the Nation or Human Rights Defenders? Fighting Poverty Wages in Bangladesh, November 2010, posted at www.sweatfree.org

WEED – World Economy, Ecology and Development, Under Pressure: Working Conditions and Economic Development in ICT Production in Central and Eastern Europe, September 2010, posted at www.weed-online.org

Workers Rights Consortium, Living Wage Analysis for the Dominican Republic, September 20, 2010, posted at www.workersrights.org

 

November 26, 2010 – Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network