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2008 Mexico Articles

Anna de Ita, Fourteen Years of NAFTA and the Tortilla Crisis,” Americas Policy Program Special Report (Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, January 10, 2008).

National Geographic "Mexico's Other Border." Feb. 2008: 60-79.

Roberts, Sarah. “Crossing the Line: Human Rights Abuses of Migrants in Short-Term Custody on the Arizona/Sonora Border.” No More Deaths, Tuscon, AZ, September 17, 2008. http://www.nomoredeaths.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38:goingtodc&catid=9:releases&Itemid=15

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2008 Global Factory Reports

Anicama, Cecilia. “State Responsibilities to Regulate and Adjudicate Corporate Activities under the Inter-American Human Rights System. Report on the American Conventions on Human Rights.” April 2008.

Chan, Jenny, Esther de Haan, Sara Nordbrand and Annika Torstensson. “Silenced to Deliver: Mobile Phone Manufacturing in China and the Philippines.” SOMO and Swedwatch. Make IT Fair. September 2008.

Clean Clothes Campaign. “Who pays for our clothing from Lidl and Kik?: A study into the impact of buying practices of the discounters Lidl and KiK in Bangladesh and the precarisation of working conditions in German retailing.” July 2008. http://www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/LIDL_KIK_ENG.pdf

The Degradation of Work Solidarity Center. “The True Cost of Shrimp: How Shrimp Industry Workers in Bangladesh and Thailand Pay the Price for Affordable Shrimp.” 2008. http://www.solidaritycenter.org/files/pubs_True_Cost_of_Shrimp.pdf

FinnWatch. “Connecting Components, Dividing Communities. Tin Production for consumer electronics in the DR Congo and Indonesia.” Make IT Fair. December 2007.

International Labour Organization. “Working Conditions Laws 2006-2007: A Global Review.” Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (ILO), July 31, 2008. http://www.laborrights.org/files/work_laws.pdf

International Labor Rights Forum. “2007 ILRF Annual Report.” August 01, 2008. http://www.laborrights.org/about-ilrf/resources/1665

International Labor Rights Forum. “SweatFree School Uniforms Informational Packet.” October 01, 2008. http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/sweatshops/sweatfree-school-uniforms/resources/1755

International Labor Rights Forum. “Child Labour in Football Stitching Activitity in India.” BBA and ILRF, October 06, 2008. http://www.laborrights.org/stop-child-labor/foulball-campaign/resources/1733

International Labor Rights Forum. “Sweatshop Solutions?” SweatFree Communities, October 10, 2008. http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/wal-mart-campaign/resources/1753

Lawson, Aurora, Bjorn Skorpen Claeson “Subsidizing Sweat Shops: How our tax dollars fund the race to the bottom and what cities and states can do.” Sweat Free Communities, July 2008. http://sacom.hk/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/subsidizing_sweatshops_lr_bw.pdf

Maquila Solidarity Network. “Clearing the Hurdles: Steps to Improving Wages and Working Conditions in the Global Sportswear Industry.” Play Fair 08. April 2008.

Marston, Ama “Labor Monitoring in Cambodia’s Garment Industry: Lessons for Africa.” Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative, May 1, 2007. http://www.realizingrights.org/pdf/Labor_Monitoring_in_the_Garment_Industry_May2007_A_Marston.pdf

Merk, Jeroen. “The Structural Crisis of Labour Flexibility Clean Clothes Campaign
Strategies and Prospects for Transnational Labour Organising in the Garment and Sportswear Industries.” Clean Clothes Campaign, May 2008. http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/08-09-05_structural_crisis.htm

National Labor Committee. “Toyota: Auto Industry Race to the Bottom.” June 2008. http://www.nlcnet.org/reports.php?id=562

Play Fair 2008. “No medal for the Olympics on labour rights.” Cleanclothes.org.

SACOM, Pain Pour le Prochain, Action de Careme. “High Tech- No Rights? One Year Follow Up Report on the Working Conditions in the Electronic Hardware Sector in China.” May 2008.

Sethi, S. Prakash. “Mattel Inc. Company Managed Plants in Asia.” International Center for Corporate Accountability. October 3, 2008.

SOMO. “Mobile Connections: Supply Chain Responsibility of 5 Mobile Phone Companies.” September 2008. <http://somo.nl/publications-en/Publication_2728/view>

Steinweg, Time and Esther de Haan. “Capacitating Electronics: The corrosive effects of platinum and palladium mining on labour rights an communities.” Make IT Fair. November 2007.

SwedWatch. “Powering the Mobile World: Cobalt Production for batteries in the DR Congo and Zambia.” November 2007.

SwedWatch, SOMO, IHLO. “Improving Working Conditions at Chinese Natural Stone Companies.” January 2008. <http://somo.nl/publications-en/Publication_2459>

Todd, Lori A, Kathleen Mottus and Gary J. Mihlan. “A Survey of Airborne and Skin Exposures to Chemicals in Footwear and Equipment Factories in Thailand.” Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. March 2008.

Trade Union Conference. “Fair Play? The global sporting goods industry and workers’ rights: A TUC Fact File and activities pack for trade union tutors.” June 2008.

Weyzig, Francis, and Irene Schipper. Philips Electronics: Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2007. SOMO. Amsterdam, 2008.

Wick, Ingeborg. “Aldi’s clothing bargains- discount buys discounting standards? Working conditions in Aldi’s suppliers in China and Indonesia suggestions for consumer and trade union action.” Suedewind Institut. May 2007. <http://www.suedwind-institut.de/downloads/ALDI-publ_engl_2007-08.pdf>

Workers’ Rights Consortium. “WRC Assessment re PCCS Garment Co. Ltd. (Cambodia). Findings, Recommendations and Status Report.” January 15, 2008.

Workers’ Rights Consortium. “Factory Investigation PCCS Garment.” January 15, 2008

Workers’ Rights Consortium. “Assessment re New Wide Garment (Cambodia). Findings, Recommendations and Status Report.” March 6, 2008.

Workers’ Rights Consortium. “Factory Investigation New Wide Garment Cambodia.” March 16, 2008.

Workers’ Rights Consortium. “Factory Investigation Jerzees Choloma and Jerzees de Honduras.” May 1, 2008.

Workers’ Rights Consortium. “WRC Assessment re Confecciones Mazara (Mexico), Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report.” SEPTEMBER 11, 2008. <http://browser.grik.net/workersrights.org/freports/WRC%20Findings%20and%20Recommendations%20Report%20re%20Confecciones%20Mazara%20-%209-11-08.pdf.

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2008 Global Development & Poverty

Akyüz, Yilmaz. “Managing Financial Instability in Emerging Markets: A Keynesian Perspective.” Third World Network, Geneva, February 2008. http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/par/Yilmaz.pdf.

Akyüz, Yilmaz. “The Current Global Financial Turmoil and Asian Developing Countries.” Third World Network, April 2008. http://www.twnside.org.sg/pos.htm

Bais, Karolien. “Corporate Social Responsibility: Whose Voice is Heard?” MVO Platform, September 2008. http://www.corporatejustice.org/IMG/pdf/CSR_Whose_Voice_Is_Heard.pdf

Bacon, David. "The Political Economy of International Migration." News Labor Forum 16 (Fall 2007).

Barlow, Maude. "The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water." Foreign Policy in Focus 25 Feb. 2008. <www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5016>.

BBC World Service "Widespread Unease About Economy and Globalization--Global Poll." Jan. 2008.

Bello, Walden.  “Can Capitalism Survive Climate Change?” Foreign Policy in Focus.  1 April, 2008.  <http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5114>.

Bloic, Carl.  “An Uncertain Time for Capitalism.”  The Black Commentator.  17 April, 2008.  <http://www.blackcommentator.com/273/273_lm_uncertain_time_for_capitalism.html>.

Dr. Buttle, Martin, Dr. Alex Hughes, Professor Neil Rigby. “Organising Ethical Trade: a UK- US comparison: Stakeholder Report 2007.” Clean Clothes Campaign. http://www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/07-ESRCStakeholderReport.pdf

Cannon, James S. U.S. Container Porta and Air Pollution: a Perfect Storm. Energy Futures Incorporated. 2008.

Carroll, Chris. "High-Tech Trash." National Geographic Jan. 2008.

Civil Society Statement on the World Food Emergency.  “No More ‘Failures as Usual’”

Cobbing, Madeleine. Toxic Tech: Not in Our Backyard- Uncovering the Hidden Flows of E-Waste. Greenpeace. Amsterdam, February 2008.

Deibert, Michael. “A Glittering Demon: Mining, Poverty and Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” Special to CorpWatch, June 26th, 2008. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15118

Dr. Dollar.  “Poverty in the Developing World.” Jan/Feb 2008

Edwards, Michael. “Philanthrocapitalism: After the Goldrush.” openDemocracy. 20 March, 2008. <http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/2008/0320philanthro.htm>.

Fair Labor Association Annual Report 2007, November 2007, Washington D.C. http://www.fairlabor.org/var/uploads/File/2007%20Annual%20Public%20Report.pdf

Foek, Anton. “Norilsk Nickel: A Tale of Unbridled Capitalism, Russian Style.” Special to CorpWatch, October 9th, 2008. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15215

Gabirondo, Gales.  “A New Philanthro-Capitalist Alliance in Africa?” Pambazuka.  31 March 2008.

Gallagher, Kevin P. and Roberto Porzecanski. “Taking Away the Ladder: China and the Competitiveness of Mexican Exports.” Americas Policy Program Report. September 3, 2008.

Gewen, barry.  “What Ails the American Economy? Everything, and There’s Worse to Come.”  21 April, 2008.  <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/books/21gewen.html?sq=China&st=nyt...>.

Global Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. “Child Soliders, Global Report 2008.” May 20, 2008. http://www.hrw.org/pub/2008/children/Child_Soldiers_Global_Report_Summary.pdf
http://www.childsoldiersglobalreport.org/

Gould, Ellen. “Financial Instability and the GATS Negotiations.” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Vol. 9 No. 4 July 2008.

Hamilton, Katherine, Ryan Schuchard, Emma Stewart, Sissel Waage. “Offsetting Emissions: A Business Brief on the Voluntary Carbon Market (Second Edition).” Business for Social Responsibility, February 2008. http://www.bsr.org/reports/BSR_Voluntary-Carbon-Offsets-2.pdf

Helper, Susan. "Renewing U.S. Manufacturing Promoting a High-Road Strategy." EPI Briefing Paper #212 (February 13, 2008).

Hricko, Andrea. "Global Trade Comes Home: Community Impacts of Goods Movement." Environmental Health Perspectives Feb. 2008, 116 ed., sec. 2.

Holstein, William. “Next President should visit factories in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh…” Yale Global. July 17, 2008.

Human Rights Watch. “Burma’s Gem Trade and Human Rights Abuses.” updated July 2008. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/01/11/burma17729.htm

Hurtado, Immaculada and Patricia Argery. “Social Dumping: The Debate on a Multilateral Social Clause.” Global Economy Journal. Issue 1 Article 6.

Hwang, Linda, Anu Yegnasubramanian, Rich Liroff “Word from the Street: Toxicity and Health.” Business for Social Responsibility, April 2008. http://www.bsr.org/reports/Word_From_St_Toxicity_Health.pdf

Hwang, Linda, Emma Stewart “Drinking it In: The Evolution of a Global Water Stewardship Program at The Coca-Cola Company.” April 2008. http://www.bsr.org/reports/Coke_Water_Study_March_2008.pdf

Hwang, Linda, Anu Yegnasubramanian, Remco Fisher “Word from the Street: Water.” Business for Social Responsibility, May 2008. http://www.bsr.org/reports/Word_From_The_Street_Water.pdf

Independent Concerned Citizens’ Fact finding Team. “Interim Report: Concerned Citizens’ Independent Fact-Finding Mission, Kandhamal.” October 17, 2008. http://focusweb.org/india/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1074&Itemid=2

International Food Policy Research Institute.  “High Food Prices: The What, Who, and How of Proposed Policy Actions.”  May 2008.

International Labor Rights Forum. “The Cocoa Protocol: Success or Failure?” (Newest analysis of the implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol), June 30, 2008. http://www.laborrights.org/stop-child-labor/cocoa-campaign/resources/1552

International Labor Rights Forum. “Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan’s 2008 Spring Agricultural Season.” International Labor Rights Forum and Human Rights Defenders in Uzbekistan, October 10, 2008. http://www.laborrights.org/stop-child-labor/cotton-campaign/resources/1751

International Labor Rights Forum. “The Sour Taste of Pineapple.” October 20, 2008. http://www.laborrights.org/creating-a-sweatfree-world/resources/1758

Khor, Martin. “Food Crisis, Climate Change and the Importance of Sustainable Agriculture.” Third World Network, June 2008. http://www.twnside.org.sg/pos.htm

Krugman, Paul. “Running Out of Planet to Exploit.” 21 April, 2008. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/opinion/21krugman.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=...>.

Ladou, Joe, and Sandra Lovegrove. "Export of Electronics Equipment Waste." International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 14 (Jan/Mar 2008).

Lopez Villar, Juan, and Bill Freese. "Who Benefits From GM Crops? the Rise in Pesticide Use." Friends of the Earth International 112 (January 2008).

Medeiros, Carlos Aguiar de. “Growth Patterns, Income distribution, and poverty: Lessons From the Latin American Experience.” February 2008.

Mouawad, Jad.  “The Big Twist.”  The New York Times. 20 April, 2008.  <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/weekinreview/20mouawad.html?sq=China&st=nyt&...>.

Oxfam Australia. “Submission to Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities.” 3 June 2008. http://www.oxfam.org.au/campaigns/submissions/Regional-Indigenous-Submission-to-the-Senate-Select-Committee.pdf

Oxfam Australia. “Trade Agreements and Development in the Pacific: A submission to the Australian Government.” July 2008. http://www.oxfam.org.au/campaigns/submissions/PACER-plus-submission-2.pdf

Oxfam Australia. “Partnering with Our Neighbors: Realising the potential of Pacific Partnerships for Development.” August 2008. http://www.oxfam.org.au/campaigns/submissions/Oxfam-Australia-Partnering-with-our-neighbours.pdf

Salazar, Milagros. “Business Fights Restrictions on Outsourcing.” Labour-Peru. June 5, 2008.

Scott, Robert E. "The Importance of Manufacturing: Key to Recovery in the States and the Nation." EPI Briefing Paper #211 (February 13, 2008).

Solidarity Center. “Workers’ Freedom of Association Under Attack in Mexico.” August 2008.

Union View. “Guatemala: Trade Unions at the heart of the fight against impunity.” March 2008. ITUC #08

Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe.  “A Nation in Debt.”  Dollars and Sense.  11 June, 2008.  <http://www.the-american-interest.com/ai2/article.cfm?ID=458&MId=20>.

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2008 Codes of Conduct

Andrew, Michael S.  “Occupational Health in International Factories: Examination of Standards, Enforcement, Conditions, and Available Resources.”  3 June, 2008.

Baker, Mallen.  “Corportate Social Responsibility – Looking Five Years Forward and Back.”  Ethical Corporation.  7 January, 2008.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=5630>.

Baker, Mallen. “Getting to Small Companies Through the Supply Chain.” 30 April, 2008.  Ethical Corporation.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContenID=5872>.

Ballinger, Jeff. “No Sweat? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Dilemma of Anti-Sweatshop Activism.” Global Labor Organizing. Summer 2008.

Barber, Brendan. “TUC General Secretary Wilton Park Conference Speech on Trade and Labour Standards.” October 21, 2008.

Bartlett, Donald L. and James B. Steele.  “Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear.”  Vanity Fair.  May 2008

Brown, David.  “Maker of Vioxx is Accused of Deception.”  16 April, 2008. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR200...>.

Brown, Garrett. “Corporate Social Responsibility Brings Limited Progress on Workplace Safety in Global Supply Chains”

Casals, Ruth.  “Smart Regulation: legislative Opportunity for the Eu to Improve Corporate Accountaability.”  European Coalition for Corporate Justice.  29 May 2008.

China Labor Watch.  “The Relationship between a Corporation and It’s Workers.” April 2008.

China Labor Watch.  “:Puma’s Failure in CSR: Supplier’s Critical Conditions.” 15 June, 2008.  <http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/2008615.htm>.

Davis, Peter. “Rebalancing the Market – how Government Can Better Encourage Responsible Business.”  10 April, 2008. Ethical Corporation.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=5830>.

Davis, Gerald F., Marina V.N. Whitman, and Mayer N. Zald.  “The Responsibility Paradox.”  Stanford Social Innovation Review.  Winter 2008.

Dreier, Peter. “Democratic Candidates Debate Sweatshop Labor.” Huffington Post. December 6, 2007.

Ethical Corporation Newsdesk. “North America – News in Brief April 2008.”  16 April 2008.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=5855>.

Ethical Corporation Newsdesk.  “UN Global Compact – Is the Compact Raising Corporate Responsibility Standards?”  10 May 2008.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=5898>.

European Coalition for Corporate Justice. “Legislative opportunities to improve corporate accountability at the EU level.” May 2008.

Fair Labor Association.  “Scope Report: How a Functioning Grievance Procedure May Positively Impact Performance.”  March 2008.

Food and Water Watch.  “Cargill: A Corporate Threat to Food and Farming.”  May 2008.

Frank, T.A. “Confessions of a Sweatshop Inspector.” WA Monthly. April 2008.

Gregor, Filip and Hannah Ellis. “Fair Law: Legal Proposals to Improve Corporate Accountability for Environmental and Human Rights Abuses.” ECCJ 2008.

Hohnen, Paul. "By Invitation: a Prediction for 2008: We'Ll See More Action From Governments on Corporate Social Responsibility." Ethical Corporation. 2 Jan. 2008. <www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp>.

Holland, Diana.  “Is There Slavery in Your Supply Chain?” TUC.  1 May, 2008.

Hong, Vu Tien. “10,000 Workers Strike at Vietnam Plant.” Associated Press. November 11, 2007.

International Trade Union Confederation.  “Internationally Recognized Core Labor Standards in the Peoples’ Republic of China.” 23 May, 2008.

International Trade Union Confederation. “Internationally Recognized Core Labour Standards in Madagascar.” April 4, 2008.

International Trade Union Confederation. “Internationally Recognized Core Labour Standards in Mauritius.” April 25, 2008.

Lindsay, Anne.  “Report Highlights Workers’ ‘Abuse’.”  CAFOD.  7 February, 2008.  <http://www.cafod.org.uk/news/report-2008-02-07>.

Maquilla Soildarity Update.  “Clearing the Hurdles: Play Fair Report sets Target for Improved Working Conditions by 2010 Olympics.”  June 2008.

McDougall, Dan. “Gap Plans ‘Sweatshop Free’ Labels.” The Observer. November 4, 2007.

Merkel, Angela.  “PUMA Supplier’s Unchanged Dreadful Conditions.”  March 2008.

Ministry of Environment and Forests Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi. “Guidelines for Environmentally Sound Management of E-Waste.”  12 March 2008.

MSN. “Who’s got the Universal Code?” April 2008.

Neal, Allan C. “Corporate Social Responsibility: Governanace Gain or Laissex-Faire Figleaf.” HeinOnline, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal. Vol 29:459.

Nike. “Innovate for a Better World: Nike China 2008 Corporate Responsibility Reporting Supplement.”  2008

Oregonlive.com. “CNBC feature on Nike renews labor questions.” February 2008.

Project Kaleidoscope.  “A Collaborative and Dynamic Approach to Code of Conduct Compliance.”  March 2008

Read, Richard. “Nike looks into workers’ rights breaches.” The Orgonian Staff. August 2, 2008.

Reuters. “Toymakers Back ‘Sensible’ Global Safety Standard.” New York Times. April 9, 2008.

Roner, Lisa. "North America: Supply Chains--Indian Child Labour Slips Through the Gap." Ethical Corporation. 8 Jan. 2008. <www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp>.

Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.  “Should Corporations Have a Soul?”  19 May, 2008.  <http://www.bus.umich.edu/NewsRoom/ArticleDisplay.asp?news_id=12891>.

Ruggie, John.  “Business and Human Rights, Treaty Road Not Travelled.”  Ethical Corporation.  6 May 2008.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=5887>.

“Sector Wide Solutions for the Shoe and Apparel Industry in Indonesia.”  Oxfam Australia and the Clean Clothes Campaign.  2008.

Senser, Robert A.  “Who Cares About Bangladesh?”  Human Rights for Workers Too.  11 June 2008. <http://humanrightsforworkers.blogspot.com>.

Smith, Sandy. “Earth Day: Is the Green Movement in the Workplace Fact or Fiction?” Occupational Hazards. April 22, 2008.

Trades Union Conference. “Strategic Framework Partnership Arrangement, Second Year Report.” June 2008.

Webb, Tony.  “Textiles – Time for Ethical Sourcing Mk II.”  Ethical Corporation.  8 January, 2008. <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=5637>.

Williams, Amy Bennet.  “Tomato Pickers Feeling Spied On.” 12 April, 2008

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2008 China Factory Reports

Asia Monitor Resource Centre. Report on Industrial Relations and Working Conditions in IMF-Related TNCs in China. International Metalworker's Federation. 

Business for Social Responsibility. “Pilot Summary Report: Building Capabilities to Implement CSR Management Systems at ICT Suppliers in China.” July 2008.http://www.bsr.org/reports/BSR_ICT_Capability_Building_in_China.pdf 

Chan, Jenny, Esther de Haan, Sara Nordbrand and Annika Torstensso “Silenced to Deliver: Mobile phone manufacturing in China and the Philippines.” SOMO and SwedWatch, September 2008. http://sacom.hk/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/mobile-phone-report_makeitfair_080924.pdf 

China Labor Bulletin, “No Way Out: Worker Activism in China’s State-Owned Enterprise Reforms” September 2008. 

China Labor News Translations “Women Workers Repeatedly Fired for Applying to Set Up a Union” Shendong Evening Press, February 19, 2008. 

China Labor News Translation “Workers Fight to Save their union activists: the case of Ole Wolff (Yantai) Electronics Ltd.” October 2008. 

China Labor Watch.  Academic Research Report on Lever Style Inc.  30 April, 2008. 

China Labor Watch.  PUMA Supplier’s Unchanged Dreadful Conditions.  21 April, 2008. 

China Labor Watch. “The Relationship between a Corporation and its Workers.” April 2008. 

China Labor Watch. “PUMA’s failure in CSR: Supplier’s Critical Conditions. June 15, 2008. 

China Labor Watch, “Domination of World’s Leading Retailer Wal-Mart, ‘Save Money, Live Better’; Workers’ Nightmare. Hantai Shoe Production Ltd, Dongguan Chengda Shoe Co. Ltd., Chang Ye Long.” July 15, 2008. 

China Labor Watch. “Wal-Mart Response to China Labor Watch report.” July 29, 2008. 

China Labor Watch. “Response to PUMA about Surpassing Shoe Co. Ltd.” August 11, 2008. 

China Labor Watch. “Adidas, Real Winner of the 2008 Olympics.” August 18, 2008. 

China Labor Watch. “Response to Adidas Statement.” August 21, 2008. 

China Labor Watch. “FoxConn Corporation” August 28, 2008. 

China Labor Watch. “Shenzhen Jitian Textile Co. Ltd.” September 2008. 

FLA “3rd Party Complaint Regarding Taiway Sports, China” July 23, 2008. 

Globalization Monitor “Chronology of the Ole Wolff (Yantai) Trade Union’s Struggle” 

Hwang, Linda. “Water Management in China’s Apparel and Textile Factories.” Business for Social Responsibility, April 2008. http://www.bsr.org/reports/ChinaWater_IssueBrief_042908.pdf 

ICCA. Company Managed Plants in China. Mattel, Inc. New York, 2008. 

ICCA. Mattel's Vendor Plants: Compliance with Mattel's Global Manufacturing Principles. Mattel, Inc. New York: 2008. 

Parry, Simon.  “The Day China’s Sweatshop Workers Rose up in Mutiny and Looted the Plant.”  The Daily Mail.  February 9, 2008.  <http://www.dailymail.co.uk:80/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=1811>. 

Parry, Simon. “Human Cost of a Trendy Phone.” South China Morning Post, October 5, 2008. 

Policy Matters Ohio. “Conditions Violate Labor Law, raise health concerns at Chinese Supplier of energy-efficient light bulbs to G.E.” March 25, 2008. 

SACOM. "Disney-to End Sweatshops in China Today!" 19 Sept. 2007. To: International Labor Standards of the Walt Disney Company. 

SACOM.  “High Tech, No Rights?  One Year Follow Up Report on the Working Conditions in the Electronic Hardware Sector in China.”  May 2008.  

SACOM: Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior. “Hong Kong Listed Enterprises in the 1st Quarter 2008 Report on Sweatshops in Mainland China: The exploitation of Chinese workers of Nine Dragons Paper owned by the ‘richest woman’ Zhang Yin and the poor working conditions of four other HK-invested enterprises.”

SACOM, The Student Union of The Hong Kong Baptist University, The Student Union of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 2008. http://sacom.hk/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/report-on-mainland-sweatshops-of-hk-listed-companies-by-sacom_12apr08.pdf 

Wong, May “Wuxi Matsushita Battery Contaminated Hundreds of Chinese Workers with Cadmium” Globalization Monitor, July 24, 2008. 

Zhang, Union Committee Advisor. “Ole Wolff Trade Union’s Short Video Interlude” June 10, 2008.

 

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2008 China Articles

Albert Shanker Institute. A Cry for Justice: the Voices of Chinese Workers. 2008.

Albo, Gregory. “China and the World Market: Thirty Years of the ‘Reform’ Policy.” Relay by the Socialist Project. August 14, 2008.

Ballinger, Jeff.  “Nike Reports Persistent Problems at China Factories.” Reuters. March 14, 2008.

Barboza, David.  “In Chinese Factories, Lost Fingers and Low Pay.” New York Times.  5 January, 2008.  <http://www/nytimes.com/2008/01/05/business/worldbusiness/05sweatshop.html?_r=2&oref...>.

Barboza, David.  “China Says Abusive Child Labor Ring is Exposed.”  The New York Times.  1 May, 2008.  <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/world/asia/01china.html?ref+world&pagewanted=print>.

Barboza, David. “China says Abusive Labor Ring is Exposed.” New York Times. May 1, 2008.

Barboza, David.  “Chinese Factories, Flouting Labor Laws, Hire Children From Poor, Distant Villages.” 10 May, 2008.

Chhabara, Rajesh.  “Adidas in China, Giving Supply Chains a Sporting Chance.”  Ethical Corporation.  10 June 2008.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=5948>.

Chan, Anita. “Challenges and Possibilities for Democratic Grassroots Union Elections in China: A Case Study of Two Factory- Level Elections and Their Aftermath.” Australian National University, Canberra Labor Studies, Journal Online First. June 19, 2008.

Chan, Jenny Wai-ling. “Legalization of Labor Relations in China: The Labor Contract Law as Double-Edged Sword.”

China Labor Bulletin.  “From Shanxi to Dongguan, Slave Labor is Still in Business.”  May 2008.

China Labor Bulletin.  “Help or Hinderance to Workers: China’s Institutions of Public Redress.”  23 April, 2008.  <www.clb.org.hk>.

China Labor Bulletin. “New Shenzhen labor regulations offer hope for the future.”

China Labor Bulletin. “Migrant Workers in China.” July 2008.

China Labor Bulletin. “New Study Exposes the human cost of China’s economic miracle.” September 24, 2008.

China Labor Bulletin. “Those Left Behind.” October 2008.

China Labor News Translations. “Labor NGOs in Guangdong Province At a Crossroads.” January 2008.

China Labor News Translations. “Migrant Workers and the Chronic Problem of Owed Wages.” February 2008.

China Labor News Translations. “The Emergence of Real Trade Unionism Wal-Mart Stores. May 5, 2008.

China Labor News Translations. “A struggle between a store union chair and Wal-Mart at the Nanchange Bayi store.” March 2008.

China Labor News Translations. “Systematic Government Theft of Migrant Workers’ Retirement Pensions.” July 2008.

China Labor News Translations. “Promising Wal-Mart Trade union Chair Resigns over Collective Contract Negotiations.” September 2008.

China Labor News Translations. “A Grassroots Union’s Struggle with Wal-Mart. September 17, 2008.

Chmielewski, Dawn C.  “Disney and McDonalds Move to Improve Labor Conditions in China.”  Los Angeles Times.  13 May 2007.  <http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney13-2008may13,0,2090152.story>.

Chmielewski, Dawn C.  “Disney Taking Heat over China.”  Los Angeles Times. 10 March 2008. <http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disneychina10mar10,0,3833613,print.story>.

Cockrell, Cathy. “The Second-class workers behind China’s urban construction boom.” UCB press release. August 14, 2008.

Cody, Edward. “In China, Protestors clash with Police over Dangerous Factory.” Washington Post. March 3, 2008.

Collier, Robert. “China’s Black Hole.”  California Magazine.  May/June 2008.  <http://alumni.berkeley.edu/California/200805/collier.asp>.

Collins, Dave. “Report: GE supplier in China subjects workers to toxins.” Newsday.com March 26, 2008.

Dongfan, Han.  “June 4: A Time for Unity, a Time for Reconciliation.”  China Labor Bulletin.  2008.

Editorial Comments: Out of Sight, Out of Mind.  February 1, 2008.
<http://www.ishn.com/copyright/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000247842?view...>.

Fan, Maureen. “A Desperate Search for Stolen Children: Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable to Human Trafficking.” Wasington Tpost March 10, 2008.

Fong, Mei and Sky Canaves. “Many Factories in China’s South Sound Last Whistle: Plants Shut, Move Amid Competition From Asian Rivals.” February 22, 2008.

Fong, Mei and Sky Canaves. “World News: Factories on China’s South Coast Lost Their Edge; Thousands Close As Increased Costs Alter the Equation.” Wall Street Journal February 22, 2008.

Global Labor Strategies. “Why China Matters: Labor Rights in the Era of Globalization.” March 2008.

Global Labor Strategies. “When Global Labor and China’s Union Talk.” April 2008.

Global Labor Strategies. “China’s Challenge: Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases.” May 2008.

Global Labor Strategies. “The Crisis in Chinese Industrial Relations. June 2008.

Global Labor Strategies. “Labor Chart a new Course on China.” July 2008.

Greenlees, David. “Toy Makers Mount Drive to Salvage China’s Safety Reputation” January 10, 2008.

Holmes, Brian. “One Word, One Dream.” January 8, 2008.

Human Rights Watch. “Walking on Thin Ice: Control, Intimidation and Harassment of Lawyers in China.” April 29. 2008. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/china0408/china0408web.pdf

Hurtzler, Charles. “China safety official wants public help” January 22, 2008.

Hwang, Linda. “Water Management in China’s Apparel and Textile Factories.” Business for Social Responsibility, April 2008. http://www.bsr.org/reports/ChinaWater_IssueBrief_042908.pdf

“New Labor Contract Law: Myth and reality six months after implementation.” June 2008. www.ihlo.org/LRC/WC/270608.html

International Trade Union Confederation. “Internationally Recognized Core Labor Standards in the People’s Republic of China.” May 23, 2008.

Jiang, Wenran. “Revolution from Below.” Globe and Mail. August 8, 2008.

Kurtenbach, Elaine. “Chinese Factories No Longer Cheapest.” China Labor News February 22, 2008.

Leslie, Jacques. "The Last Empire: Can the World Survive China's Rush to Emulate the American Way of Life?" Mother Jones Jan.-Feb. 2008.

Loong-yu, Au, Nan Shan, Zhang Ping “Women Migrant Workers under the Chinese Social Apartheid.” Committee for Asian Women, May 2007. http://www.cawinfo.org/pdf/final_10.pdf

Mickleburgh, Rod. “Sweatshop goods banned from Games After 80 Audits of mostly Chinese factories, six have been turfed as manufacturers of Olympics-related goods” Olympic Initiative. April 1, 2008.

Nocera, Joe.  “Horatio Alger Multiplied by 1.3 Billion.”  The New York Times.  26 April, 2008.  <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/business/26nocera.html?sq=Joe Nocera&st=nyt&scp...>.

Play Fair 2008. “Play Fair 2008 Lays Concrete Steps to Improving Working Conditions.”  21 April, 2008. <http://en.maquillasolidarity.org/en/node/785>.

Parry, Simon. “The day China’s sweatshop workers rose up in mutiny and looted the plant.” Mail Online. February 9, 2008.

Rasmusen, Peter. “Danish factory accused of union busting in China.” Fagligt Faelles Forbund.

Sheridan, Michael and Claire Newell.  “Adidas Workers on $22.16 a Week in China.” Times Online.  March 30, 2008.  <http://www.timesonlines.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3646424.ece?print=yes&randnum=...>.

Spencer, Jane and Juliet Ye.  “Toxic Factories Take Toll on China’s Labor Force.”  15 January, 2008.

Yardley, Jim. “Worried Parents in China Wait for Answers on Tainted Formula.” New York Times. September 18, 2008.

White, Chris.  “Labor Law Challenges for Australian Companies in China.”  Legal Wise Law Conference Rendezvous Hotel, Melbourne, 21 May 2008. 

White, Chris. 2008 China Labor Reforms.

White, Chris. “China’s New Labor Laws: Employment Contract Reforms.” August 30, 2008.

WWW.XINHUANET.COM. "China to Further Co-Op with Foreign Trade Unions." 7 Jan. 2008. <news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/07>.

WWW.XINHUANET.COM. "Hu: China to Promote Sustainable Development, Protect Worker's Rights and Interests." 7 Jan. 2008. <news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/07>.

“China hushes up Olympic deaths, at least ten workers have been killed while working on the Olympic stadium but, in a rush to complete the project, Chinese officials have denied the deaths.” The Sunday Times. January 20, 2008.

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2007 Mexico Articles

Barajas, Jorge. Electronics Multinationals and Labour Rights in Mexico. CEREAL. CEREAL, 2007.

Carlsen, Laura. “NAFTA Inequality and Immigration” CIP Americas Policy Program (Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, Oct. 31,2007).

Carlsen, Laura. “Standing Up to NAFTA,” Americas Policy Program Congressional Briefing (Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, December 18, 2007).

Center for Reflection and Action on Labour Issues (CEREAL).  “Electronics Multinationals and Labour Rights in Mexico.”  October 2007.  <www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/Cereal-Report-English-Oct-2007.pdf>.

CIP Americas Policy Program (Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, May 30, 2007).

Faux, Jeff. "Citi's Mexican Cronies." The Nation (Dec. 17, 2007). <www.thenation.com/doc/20071217/faux>.

Frontera NorteSur "Commerce/Immigration News." 20 Dec. 2007.

Tilly, Chris, and Marie Kennedy. "Supply, Demand, and Tortillas." Dollars and Sense 2007.

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2007 Global Factory Reports

CEREAL Electronics, “Multinationals and labor Rights in Mexico.” October 2007.

Global Witness, “Oil and Mining in Violent Places: Why Voluntary codes for companies don’t guarantee human rights.” 2007.

National Labor Commission, “Today Workers Bear the Cross: Crucifixes made under horrific sweatshop conditions.”

Nova, Scott. “RE: WRC Report on TOS Dominicana.” Workers Rights Consortium: Washington DC, June 14, 2007.

Todd et. al.  Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2008 52(3): 195-205.  “Health Survey of Workers Exposed to Mixed Solvent and Ergonomic Hazards in Footwear and Equipment Factory Workers in Thailand.” <http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/3/195?etoc>. 

Todd, Lori A., Kathleen Mottus, and Gary J. Mihlan.  “A Survey of Airborne and Skin Exposures to Chemicals in Footwear and Equipment Factories in Thailand.”  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 5: 169-181.  March 2008.

Workers Rights Consortium. “Re: WRC Analysis of Severance Dispute at BJ&B.” Washington DC, March 27, 2007.

Workers Rights Consortium, “Assesment re: Jerzees Choloma (Honduras) Report of Finding and Records.” October 3, 2007.

Workers Rights Consortium. WRC Assessment: re Tos Dominicana Findings and Recommendations.Washington, DC. June 6, 2007.

Zeldenrust, Ineke and Tessel Pauli, “Expectations in Relation to Factory Closures and Mass Dismissals.” Clean Clothes Campaign e-bulletin, September 2007.

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2007 Global Development & Poverty

ACTSA, Traidcraft, TUC. New Deals, New Danger - EPAs: a Threat to Workers. 2007.

Anderson, Sarah, and Sara Grusky. Challenging Corporate Investor Rule. Institute for Policy Studies and Food & Water Watch. April 2007.

Agarwala, Rina. "Resistance and Compliance in the Age of Globalization: Indian Women and Labor Organizations." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 610 (March 2007).

Bivens, L. Josh. "Globalization and American Wages Today and Tomorrow." EPI Briefing Paper #196 (October 10, 2007).

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Gates's Grandest Challenge: Transcending Technology as Public Health Ideology." The Lancet (March 11, 2007). <www.thelancet.com>.

Brecher, Jeremy, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith. "Globalizing Workers Rights." New Labor Forum 16 (Spring 2007).

Brofenbrenner, Kate. "Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital." UCS Labor Books Catalog. <https://ssl30.pair.com/unionist/ccp51/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?usr=51F7499391&rnd=9272301&rrc=N&affl=&cip=72.83.0.172&act=&aff=&pg=prod&ref=global&cat=&catstr=>.

Brooks, Ethel C., “Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work.” University of Minnesota Press, December 7, 2007.

Cavanagh, John, John Feffer, and Daphne Wysham. "Just Climate Policy." Foreign Policy in Focus 28 June 2007. <www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4347>.

Cevallos, Diego. "DEVELOPMENT: Latin America Ahead on MDGs-Except for Poverty." Inter Press Service News Agency 30 July 2007. <www.ipsnews.net/print.asp>.

Chappel, M. Jahi. "Shattering Myths: Can Sustainable Agriculture Feed the World?" Food First Backgrounder Fall 2007, 13 ed., sec. 3.

Chea, Terence. "America Ships Electronic Waste Overseas." AP News Wires 18 Nov. 2007. <http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/18/1106074-america-ships-electronic-waste-overseas>.

Davies, Penny. "China and the End of Poverty in Africa--Towards Mutual Benefit?" Diakonia Dec. 2007.

Davila, Patricia. "Free Trade, Migration and Corn Crises." Frontera NorteSur 30 Oct. 2007.

Davos. Labour and the Shifting Power Equation: Statement of the Labour Leaders to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. January 24-28, 2007.

Deparle, Jason. "Border Crossings: a Global Trek to Poor Nations, From Poorer Ones." The New York Times 27 Dec. 2007. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/world/americas/27migration.html>.

Faux, Jeff. "Globalization That Works for Working Americans." EPI Briefing Paper #179 (January 11, 2007).

Garrett, Laurie. "The Challenge of Global Health." Foreign Affairs Feb. 2007. <www.foreignaffairs.org>.

Glass-Hess, Laura, “Ready or Not, Here comes DR –CAFTA: Comparing the Right of Association in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador.” Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Winter 2007.

Global Policy Forum,  Whose Partnership for Whose Development? Corporate

Accountability in the UN System Beyond the Global Compact, 4 July 2007, Hearing At the United Nations. Geneva. August 2007.

Greider, William. "The Establishment Rethinks Globalization." The Nation 30 Apr. 2007. <www.precaution.org/lib/07>.

Holstein, William J. "Have and Have-Nots of Globalization." The New York Times 8 July 2007. <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD6133EF93BA35754C0A9619C8B63>.

International Monetary Fund. The IMF and Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa. Independent Evaluation Office. Washington, DC, 2007.

IUF. New IUF Publication: a Workers' Guide to Private Equity. May 23, 2007.

Kenfield, Isabella. Brazil's Ethanol Plan Breeds Rural Poverty, Environmental Degradation. Americas Program Discussion Paper. IRC Americas, March 6, 2007. <americas.irc-online.org>.

Labour Behind the Label "Let's Clean Up Fashion: the State of Pay Behind the UK High Street." (2006). <www.labourbehindthelabel.org/>.

Lerner, Stephen. "Global Unions: a Solution to Labor's Worldwide Decline." New Labor Forum 16 (February 2007).

Lerner, Stephen. "May Day Alert: Only Global Unions Can Stop the Race to the Bottom." Alternet 1 May 2007. <www.alternet.org/story/50495>.

Levinson, Jerome I. "Globalization: What is to Be Done?" Foreign Policy in Focus 4 Oct. 2007. <www.fpif.org>.

Mumford, Todd, “Voluntary International Standards: Incorporating ‘Fair Trade’ within Multilateral Trade Agreements.” Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, 2007.

Nielsen, Jesper. "Export Processing Zones or Free Zones- the Experience Seen From a Trade Union Point of View." United Federation of Danish Workers (January 29, 2007).

Oddone, Francesco. Debt Sustainability or Defensive Deterrence? the Rise of New Lenders and the Response of the Old. EURODAD. January 2007.

Oxfam International. “Signing Away the Future: How Trade and Investment Agreements Between Rich and Poor Countries Undermine Development”, Oxfam Briefing Paper (March 2007).

Petras, James. "Rethinking the Development of Latin America and the Caribbean for the 21st Century." CLNews July-Aug. 2007. <clnews@lists.clnews.org>.

Piller, Charles, Edmund Sanders, and Robyn Dixon. "Dark Cloud Over Good Works of Gates Foundation." Los Angeles Times 7 Jan. 2007. <www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world>.

Philion, Stephen. "The Social Costs of Neoliberalism in China (Interview with Economist Han Deqiang)." Dollars and Sense July-Aug. 2007.

Polaski, Sandra. U.S. Living Standards in an Era of Globalization. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Washington, DC: Policy Brief 53, July 2007.

Rights Action. "A Cry From the Bottom a Daughter's Heart." www.rightsaction.org (June 2007).

Scientific American. "World's Top 10 Most Polluted Places." 13 Sept. 2007. <http://sciam.com>.

Stallings, Barbara. "Globalization of Capital Flows: Who Benefits?". Section Three: Regionalization and the Foray on Primary Goods, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 610 (March 2007) <LexisNexisAcademic>.

The Working Group.  Does the IMF Constrain Health Spending in Poor Countries? Evidence and an Agenda for Action. Report of the Working Group on IMF Programs and Health Spending. Center for Global Development, July 20, 2007.

TUC. International Development Issues. Trade Union Digest of Organisations and Resources. January 2007.

UN Water. Coping with Water Scarcity: Challenge of the Twenty-First Century. 2007 World Water Day. 2007. <www.worldwaterday07.org>.

Van Leeuwen, Fred, and Guy Ryder. "Social Dialogue and a Rights-Based Framework-At the Heart of Migration." Council of Global Unions, Statement to the Global Forum on Migration and Development and the Civil Society Day(9-11 July, 2007).

Wichterich, Christa. Fair and Unfair Competition- the EU-China Trade Race and Its Gener Implications. WIDE. Brussels, 2007. <www.wide-network.org>.

Yashar, Deborah J. "Resistance and the Identity Politics in an Age of Globalization." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 610 (March 2007).

Zibechi, Raul. "The Inevitable Decline of the American Empire (Interview with Immanuel Wallerstein)." Americas Program 20 Sept. 2007. <http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4567>.

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2007 Codes of Conduct

Barber, Brendan. Responding to the Government's Agenda. Centre for Corporate  Accountability Conference on Directors Duties and Safety Enforcement, 19 Nov. 2007, TUC. <www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-13977-f0.cfm>.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre."Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Business and Human Rights 2007: Report to UN Human Rights Council." 9 Mar. 2007. <www.business-humanrights.org>.

Business for Social Responsibility. Beyond Monitoring: Mapping Report. www.bsr.org.

Casey, Roseann. Meaningful Change: Raising the Bar in Supply Chain Workplace Standards. Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. Harvard University, Nov. 2006.

Chan, Anita, “A New Step Forward: Corporate-facilitated Trade Union Elections involving Trade Unions.” Australian National Union, October 15, 2007

Doane, Deborah, and Alison Holder. Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Failing Children. Corporate Responsibility, Save the Children. London, 2007.

D’Innocenzio, Anne, “Toys R Us chief says he’ll work to promote toy safety.” SF Chronicle, Decmber 16, 2007.

Earth Rights International Report, “Chevron Financing, Profiting from and liable for Human Rights Abuses in Burma.” April 29, 2008.

ECD Watch Quarterly Case Update Vol.3 ISS1. Spring 2008. ECD Watch Newletter, April 2008.

Egels-Zanden, Nikas, and Peter Hyllman. "Evaluating Strategies for Negotiating Workers' Rights in Transnational Corporations: the Effects of Codes of Conduct and Global Agreements on Workplace Democracy." Journal of Business Ethics (2007).

Engardio, Pete. "Beyond the Green Corporation." Business Week 29 Jan. 2007.

Ethical Corporation Newsdesk.  “The Ethical Supply Chain: Monitoring Misconceptions and Some Solutions.”  Ethical Corporation. 5 December, 2007.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=5554>.

Ethical Corporation “Editorials Review of the year- 2007: getting on the right side of history.”

Ethical Trading Initiative "ETI Annual Review 2006-7." Rev. of Ethical Trade Measuring Up?. 2007.

Ethical Trading Initiative. Getting Smarter At Auditing: Tackling the Growing Crisis in Ethical Trade Auditing. ETI Forum, Nov. 16, 2006.

Ethical Trading Initiative: “Purchasing Practices: Case studies to addess impacts of purchasing practices on working conditions,” November 29, 2007.

European Network on Debt and Development. "Untying the Knots- How the World Bank is Failing to Deliver Real Change on Conditionality." 9 Nov. 2007. <www.eurodad.org/whatsnew/reports.aspx>.

FIAS. DRAFT: Corporate Social Responsibility in China's Information and Communications Technology Sector. Capacity-Building Workshop.  May 21, 2007.

Fair Labor Association 2007 Anuual Report.

Global Labor Strategies."Globalization and Its Discontents." 4 Aug. 2007. <clnews@lists.clnews.org>.

Global Unions. The Role of the IFIs in Supporting Decent Work and Countering the Risks of Financial Globalisation. Global Unions to the 2007 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank. Washington, DC, Oct. 2007.

Hohnen, Paul, “Governmental Soft Power: How governments can use soft power art of encouragement and persuasion to advance corporate engagement on social and environmental issues.” Global Compact.

Human Rights Watch. "Discounting Rights: Wal-Marts Violation of US Worker's Right to Freedon of Association." May 2007. <www.hrw.org>.

ILO. "ILO, IFC Link with Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) to Promote Better Work in Global Supply Chains." ILO/09/48 (Sept. 17, 2007).

International Labour Office. The United Nations and Reform: Developments in the Multilateral System. Geneva, Nov. 2007.

Jones, Nick. "NGO Campaigns-Campaigners Scrutinised But Unrepetant." Ethical Corporation. 5 June 2007. <Ethical Corporation>.

Kryvoi, Yaraslau, “Enforcing Labor Rights against Multinational Corporation Groups in Europe. Industrial Relations, Vol. 46 No. 2, April 2007.

Leong, Apo and Chan Ka-wai.  “Critical Reflection on CSR: a Labor’s Perspective.”  AMRC.  12 December, 2007.  <http://www.amrc.org.hk/node/762/print.

Levi Strauss and Company, Beyond Monitoring Convening. 12 June 2007, Business for Social Responsibility.

Locke, Richard M. "The Promise and Perils of Globalization: the Case of Nike." Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science, MIT.

Locke, Richard, Fei Qin, and Albert Brause. Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards?: Lessons From Nike. MIT Sloan School of Management. July, 2006.

Makin, Jennifer. Cambodia: Women and Work in the Garment Industry. ILO Better Factories Cambodia and World Bank, Justice for the Poor Program. Phnom Penh, Dec. 2006.

Maquila Solidarity Network. "Codes Memo 22: the Next Generation of CSR Reporting." Dec. 2007.

Marston, Anna, “Labor Monitoring in Cambodia’s Garment Industries: Lessons for Africa.” Realizing Rights, the Ethical Globalization Initiative, May 1, 2007.

McDougall, Dan.  “Child Sweatshop Shame Threatens Gap’s Ethical Image.”  Oberserver.  28 October, 2007.  <http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oct/28/ethicalbusiness.india>.

Moore Odell, Anne. "Making Toys is Not Child's Play." World Group, Inc. 14 Nov. 2007. <socialfunds.com/news/print.cgi>.

MVO Platform. “CSR Frame of Reference”.(Aug. 2007).

Nair, Chandran.  “Coprorate Responsibility – An Industry that has Lost Its Way.”  Ethical Corporation.  14 Dec, 2007.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=5582>.

OpenSRI. "The First Worldwide SRI Collaborative Web Platform." Nov. 2007. <www.opensri.com>.

O'Rourke, Dara. Opportunities and Obstacles for Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in Developing Countries. World Bank Group. 2004.

Philo, John C. Health and Safety Rights and Transnational Liability for Harm. Diss. McGill Univ. Montreal: Faculty of Law, the Institute of Comparative Law, Aug. 2006.

PlayFair 2008. No Medal for the Olympics on Labour Rights. www.playfair2008.org/. 2007.

Public Citizen, “Santa’s Sweatshop: “Made in DC” with Bad Trade Policy,” December 19, 2008.

Schuwerk, Mike. "Nicer or Shrewder: Can Corporate Social Responsibility Resolve Its Own Contradictions?" 18 May 2007. <ima.hunter.cuny.edu>.

Shelley, Toby. Exploited: Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy. Sussex: Zed Books, 2006.

Shunda Trade Union. “Reebok’s Chinese Trade Union Experiment: Five Years On.”

Suziani, Jenny. Globalization..., Don't Take Away Our Rights..." Trade Union Rights Centre. Jakarta: International Labor Rights Fund, 2007.

United Nations General Assembly. Business and Human Rights: Mapping International Standards of Responsibility and Accountability for Corporate Acts. Human Rights Council Fourth Session, Item 2. Special Representative of the Secretary-General, 2007.

United Nations. State Responsibilities to Regulate and Adjudicate Corporate Activities Under the United Nations' Core Human Rights Treaties. Report No. 4: Individual Report on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Geneva, Sept. 2007.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. World Investment Report 2007. “Transnational Corporations, Extractive Industries and Development.”

Van Niekerk, Andre. "Are Human Rights the Concern of Business?" Business Day 29 May 2007. <www.businessday.co.za>.

Walter, Laura. "FLA Annual Report Reveals Health and Safety Violations." Occupational Hazards 6 Dec. 2007. <www.occupationalhazards.com/Classes/Article/ArticleDraw_P.aspx>.

Wells, Don. "Too Weak for the Job: Corporate Codes of Conduct, Non Governmental Organizations and the Regulation of International Labour Standards." Global Social Policy 7 (April 2007).

Zeldenrust, Ineke and Pauli, Tessel. "Expectations in Relation to Factory Closures and Mass-Dismissals." Clean Clothes Campaign E-Bulletin. Sept. 2007.

Zeldenhurst, Ineke. 23 Mar. 2007. CCC International Secretariat. Amsterdam: Clean Clothes Campaign E-Bulletin.

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2007 China Factory Reports

AFP “Workers Toil with few rights to maker the world’s toys.” October 8, 2007.

Barboza, David. “Shanghai Bribery Inquiry Ensnares Big Firms.” The New York Times, January 19, 2007. www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19.

China Labour Bulletin Falling Through the Floor: Migrant Women Worker' Quest for Decent Work in Dongguan, China. CLB Research Series: No. 2, 2006.

China Labour Bulletin Small Hands: a Survey Report on Child Labour in China. Report No. 7: CLB Research Series. 2007. <www.clb.org.hk>.

China Labor Watch. Protect the Rights of American Eagle and Wal-Mart Supplier Factory Workers. June 12, 2007.

China Labor Watch. The Long March: Survey and Case Studies of Work Injuries in the Pearl River Delta Region. February 2007.

China Labor Watch. “Wage/Unemplyment Standards in selected Provinces/ Municipalities/ Cities.” August 2007.

China Labor Watch. “Statement in Response to Adidas’ reply towards China Labor Watch’s Recent Report.” December 13, 2007. <http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/20071213statement.htm>

China Labor Watch. Recent Report December 13, 2007.

CLWVolunteer.”Hundreds of Workers Protest Company Beatings.” January 19, 2007.

Chung-Yan, Chow.  “Guangzhou Factory is Abusing Workers: Report.” SCMP.COM, Shenzhen: February 5, 2007.

Evans, Jonny. “Reports on Chinese iPod Sweatshop Suppressed Report details howt eh Chinese government suppressed news coverage of poor working conditions in an iPod factory run by Foxconn.” Macworld. October 11, 2007.

Feickert, David Gordon. Tensions of Transition: the Safety Problems of the Chinese Coal Industry. Diss. Victoria Univ. of Wellington, June, 2007.

Manhart, Andreas. “Key Social Impacts of Electronics Production and WEEE-Recycling in China.” Oeko-Institut. June 2007.

Newell, Claire and Simon Parry. “Disney Toys Made in ‘Sweatshops’.” The Sunday Times. December 23, 2007.

Qiang, Li. "Investigations on Toy Suppliers in China; Workers are Still Suffering." China Labor Watch. Aug. 2007.

Reebok's Chinese Trade Union Experiment: Five Years On. Fuzhou City, China

SACOM, DELL: the Manufacturing of Sweatshop Computers, Behind Zero-Inventory Strategy. Hong Kong and China, Nov. 2007. <www.sacom.hk>.

SACOM. “Disney Cutting & Running.” February 6, 2007.

SACOM. Meeting Between HIVAC and SACOM. March 26, 2007.

SACOM “Wal-Mart’s Swatshop Monitoring Fails to Catch Violations: The story of Toys Made in China for Wal-Mart.” June 2007.
<http://sacom.hk/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/walmart_reportsacomjun2007.pdf>

SACOM. “Haowei Toys brings you… Mickey Mouse: A Survey of Conditions at a Disney Supplier in China.” September 2007.

SACOM. “Tianyu Toys brings you… Winnie the Pooh: A Survey of Conditions at a Disney Supplier in China.” October 2007.

SACOM. Yonglida Toys Brings You...X'Mas Gifts: a Survey of Conditions At a Disney Supplier in China. Hong Kong and China, Nov. 2007. <www.sacom.hk>.

Simons, Craig. “New Labor Movement Afoot in China: Activists Employing Shame in an Effor to Bring About Shame.” Austin American-Statesman, February 4, 2007. http://statesman.printthis.clickability.com.

The Economist. “Manufacturing in China: The Problem With Made in China.” January 15, 2007.www.financialexpress.com.

Tofani, Loretta. "American Imports, Chinese Deaths: Losing Life and Limb." The Salt Lake Tribune 22 Oct. 2007. <www.sltrib.com/prtlet/article/html/fragments/>.

Qiang, Li. “Textile Sweatshops; Adidas, Bali Intimates, Hanes brands Inc., Plege CO. (Felina Lingerie), Quicksilver, Regina Miracle Speedo, Walcoal America Inc. and Wal-mart Made in China.” China Labor Watch. November 21, 2007.

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2007 China Articles

AFP. “Chinese workers toil with few rights to make the world’s toys.” October 8, 2007.

AFP.  “China has 345,000 Millionaires: Study.”  18 October, 2007.

Amnesty International. People’s Republic of China, Internal Migrants: Discrimination and Abuse, The Human Cost of an Economic Miracle. March 2007.

Amosu, Akwe. “China in Africa: It’s (Still) the Governance, Stupid.”  Foreign Policy in Focus, March 9, 2007. www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4068.

An, Huang. Workers' "Self-Help" Efforts Under Globalization. China Labor News Translations. November 2007.

Asia Monitor Resource Centre. Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations: a Portrait of Struggle. Hong Kong, 2006.

Balfour, Frederik. “Shanghai Rising: China Struggles to Build a Livable City Inside a World-Class Capital.” BusinessWeek, February 19, 2007.

Barboza, David and Louise Story. “Toymaking in China, Mattel’s Way.” New York Times. July 26, 2007.

Barboza, David. "Report Cites Brutal Conditions in Chinese Factories." The New York Times 22 Aug. 2007. <www.nytimes.com/2007/8/22/>.

Bello, Walden. “The End of the Affair? High-Speed Industrialization, the Party and the Peasantry in China.” February 23, 2007. www.focusweb.org/index2.php.

Bian, Can. "The True Story of Migrant Workers At Dongfeng." China Labor Bulletin. 23 Apr. 2007. <iso.clb.org.hk>.

Bin, Ma, et al. Our Views on the Black Brick Kiln and Other Incidents and Recommendations for the 17th Party Congress. July 12, 2007.

Bodeen, Christopher. “Amnesty Report: China’s Internal Migrants Face Employee Abuse, Legal Discrimination.” Associated Press, March 1, 2007.

Bradsher, Keith. "A Revisionist Tale: Why a Poor China Seems Richer." The New York Times 21 Dec. 2007. <www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/>.

Buzzel, Colby. "Digging a Hole All the Way to America." Esquire Aug. 2007.

Chan, Anita. “Organizing Wal-Mart: The Chinese Trade Union at a Crossroads.” Japan Focus, September 8, 2006.

Chan, Anita. “Organizing Wal-Mart in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for China’s Unions.” New Labor Forum, 16(2): Spring 2007.

Chan, Anita.  “Blood, Tears, Toys, and NGOs.”  Yale Global Online.  13 December 2007.  <http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/article.print?id=10094>.

China Labour Bulletin. Breaking the Impasse: Promoting Worker Involvement in the Collective Bargaining and Contracts Process. CLB Research Report No. 4. (November 2007) www.clb.org.hk

China Labour Bulletin. Small Hands: A Survey Report on Child Labour in China. CLB Research Reports No.7. (Sept. 2007) www.clb.org.hk.

China Labour Bulletin. Speaking Out: the Workers' Movement in China (2005-2006). CLB Research Reports No.5. (Dec. 2007) www.clb.org.hk.

CLNews. "New Post At "Global Labor Strategies"" 23 Oct. 2007. <clnews@lists.clnews.org>.

China Labor News Translations. “The All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) uses new grassroots organizing techniques to take on resistant foreign enterprises.”

China News. “China Labor Department: Increase the speed and scope of Minimum Wage standard adjustment.” October 4, 2007.

Cooney, Sean, Sarah Biddulph, Li Kungang, Ying Zhu. “China’s New Labour Contract Law: Responding to the Growing Complexity of Labour Relations in the PRC.” UNSW Law Journal Vol. 30(3).

Dee, Jonathon. “A Toy Maker’s Conscience.” New York Times. December 23, 2007.

Dibbel, Julian. "The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer." The New York Times 17 June 2007. <www.nytimes.com/2007/6/17/>.

Fallows, James. “Mr. Zhang Builds His Dream Town.”The Atlantic, March 2007.

Fallows, James. "Why China's Rise is Good for Us." The Atlantic July-Aug. 2007.

Fallows, James. "Win in China!" The Atlantic Apr. 2007.

French, Howard W. "As China's Economy Roars, Consumers Lack Defenders." The New York Times 8 July 2007. <www.nytimes.com/2007/7/8/>.

Frost, Stephen. "Who's to Blame for Unsafe Chinese Products?" CSR Asia Weekly. 4 July 2007.

Global Labor Strategies. “Behind the Great Wall of China: U.S. Corporations Opposing New Rights for Chinese Workers.” 2007.

Global Labor Strategies. "New Approaches to Promoting Labor Rights in China." 8 June 2007.

Global Labor Strategies. "The Battle for Labor Rights in China: New Developments." 14 Nov. 2007 <laborstrategies.blogs.com>.

Global Labor Strategies. Undue Influence: Corporations Gain Ground in Battle Over China’s New Labor Law—But Human Rights and Labor Advocates are Pushing Back. March 2007.http://laborstrategies.blogs.com.

Global Labor Strategies. “Why Labor can and Should Lead a Reassessment of Approaches to China.” May 23, 2007.

Goodman, Charles A., Krishna B. Kumar, and Ying Liu. Education and the Asian Surge: a Comparison of the Education Systems in India and China. Center for Asia Pacific Policy. RAND International Programs, February 21, 2008.

Hart-Landsberg, Martin; Burkett, Paul. “China, Capitalist Accumulation, and Labor.” Monthly Review, May 2007.

Johnson-Freese, Joan. "America's China Worries-Part 1." YaleGlobal Online. 6 Feb. 2007. <yaleglobal.yale.edu>.

Jones, Daniel. “Price of an Xmas Toy.” Highbeam Research. Decmber 17, 2007. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172484321.html

Junqin, Zhang. Debate Over the Pros and Cons of Citizens' Agents. China Labor News Translations. October 30, 2007.

Kim, Song-Yi, and Louis Kuijs. Raw Material Prices, Wages, and Profitability in China's Industry-How Was Profitability Maintained When Input Prices and Wages Increased So Fast? World Bank China Research Paper No. 8. October 2007.

Kahn, Joseph, and Jim Yardley. "As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes." The New York Times 26 Aug. 2007. <www.nytimes.com/2007/8/26>.

Labor Strategies. "The Battle for Labor Rights in China: New Developments." 19 Nov. 2007. <laborstrategies.blogs.com>.

Lee, Don. "China to Join Top 3 Economies." Los Angeles Times 20 July 2007. <www.latimes.com/business>.

Lee, Don. "New Workers' Rights Being Undermined in China." Los Angeles Times 27 Dec. 2007. <www.latimes.com/business>.

Liu, Chenyan; Wu, Jacky. “Minimum Wages in the Yangtze River Delta.” CSR Asia Weekly. Vol.3: March 14, 2007.

Loong-Yu, Au, Nan Shan, and Zhang Ping. Women Migrant Workers Under the Chinese Social Apartheid. Bangkok: Committee for Asian Women, May 2007.

Lu, Haina. “New Developments in China’s Labor Dispute Resolution System: Better Protection for Workers’ Rights?” Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal.

Magnier, Mark. "Letter Accuses China's Party of Drift." Los Angeles Times 18 July 2007. <www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world>.

Manhart, Andreas. Key Social Impacts of Electronics Production and WEEE-Recycling in China. Institute for Applied Ecology. Freiburg, 2007.

McGregorin, Richard. "China's Prosperity Brings Income Gap." The Financial Times 9 Aug. 2007.

Navarro, Peter. “Deconstructing the China Price.” The Berkeley Electronic Press, February 2007. www.bepress.com/ev.

Petras, James. “China:  Is High Growth- High Risk Liberalization the Only Alternative?” September 2007.

Philion, Stephen. "The Social Costs of Neoliberalism in China (Interview with Economist Han Deqiang)." Dollars and Sense July-Aug. 2007.

Public Citizen. New Report, "Santa's Sweatshop: Made in D.C. with Bad Trade Policy," Documents Root Causes of Imported Toy Crisis. Washington, DC, Dec. 19, 2007. <www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm>.

Qingqing, Hewu and Jin Yangwang. “Tracing the Causes of Owed Wages in the Construction Industry.” China Labour News Translations. September 4, 2007.

Ranis, Gustav. "Capitalism with Special Chinese Characteristics." YaleGlobal Online. 19 June 2007. <yaleglobal.yale.edu>.

Reebok. Reebok’s Chinese Trade Union Experiment: Five Years On-Update on the Democratically Elected Union at the Shun Da Sporting Goods Corporation. Fuzhou City, China, March 3-5, 2007.

Reuters. “Group Finds China Toy Factory Conditions ‘Brutal’.” New York Times. August 21, 2007.

Roner, Lisa ed.  “Labor Rights in China – Double Think and Double Standards.”  Ethical Corporation. 8 March 2007.  <http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content_print.asp?ContentID=4921>.

Simons, Craig. “New labor movement afoot in China: Activists employing shame in effort to bring about change.” Austin American-Statesman. February 4, 2007.

Smith, Brendan; Costello, Tim; Brechter, Jeremy. “Undue Influence; Corporations Gain Ground in Battle Over China’s New Labor Law—But Human Rights and Labor Advocates are Pushing Back.” Common Dreams News Center, April 3, 2007. <commondreams.org>.

Spencer, Jane. "Ravaged Rivers: China Pays Steep Price as Textile Exports Boom." The Wall Street Journal 22 Aug. 2007. <online.wsj.com>.

The Associated Press."China Faces Rising Costs From Pollution." The New York Times 17 July 2007. <www.nytimes.com/apoline/world>.

The National Labor Committee. "Sweatshop Christmas Press Release." 12 Dec. 2007. <www.nlcnet.org/article_print.php>.

The National Labor Committee. "Press Release: Today Workers Bear the Cross." 20 Nov. 2007. <www.nlcnet.org/article_print.php>.

TUC. Two Systems, One Challenge. EUIRD. February 2008.

Wang, Houli, Tengda Xu, and Jin Xu. "Factors Contributing to High Costs and Inequality in China's Health Care System." American Medical Association: JAMA 298 (October 24/31 ,2007).

White, Chris. China's New Labor Laws: Employment Contract Reforms. November 23, 2007.

Wu, Bin; Guanbao, Shen; Li, Ling. The Transformation of the Chinese Labour Market for Seafarers. Seafarers International Research Center, Cardiff.  December 2007.

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2006 China Factory Reports

Chan, Jenny Wai-ling. Chinese Women Workers Organize In the Export Zone. New Labor Forum, 15 (1): Spring 2006.

China Labour Bulletin. “More Than 1000 Workers Riot at a Factory Producing Toys for McDonald’s, US-Based Labour Rights Group Reports.” July 28, 2006. http://www.china-labour.org.hk/en/node/38852.

China Labour Bulletin. “Woman Migrant Worker Dies From Overwork at Guangzhou Factory.”  September 8, 2006.

China Labor Watch and National Labor Committee. “Hua Tai 4K Factory Where Bratz Dolls Are Being Made.”December 21, 2006.

China Labor Watch. “Report on Labor Unrest at the Merton Plastics and Electronics Factory.” August 1, 2006.

Frost, Stephen. “China View- A Roundup of Stories Making the Chinese Press Last Week.” CSR Asia Weekly Vol. 2,.

Ho, Brian. “Report on Female Migrant Workers in China.” CSR Asia Weekly Vol. 2: November 8, 2006.

Ho, Brian. “Report of Quality of Life of Migrant Workers in China.” CSR Asia Weekly Vol. 2: November 1, 2006.

McDonald, Joe. “Groups Faults China’s Wal-Mart Suppliers: Group Accuses Chinese Suppliers to Wal-Mart of Underpaying, Mistreating Workers.” The Associated Press.  December 8, 2006. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Groups+faults+China's+Wal-Mart+suppliers-a01610663314.

National Labor Committee and China Labor Watch. New Balance Goes to China: A Rare Glimpse Inside the Emerging New Corporate World Order. New York: February 2006.

Pocha, Jenhagir S. “On the Back of China’s Workers: Economic Lift is Tainted By Exploitation.” EyePress. October 15, 2006.

Public Interest Times. “Pear River Delta Work Injury Investigation.” CLWVolunteer. February 5, 2006.

Roberts, Dexter; Engardio, Pete. “Secrets, Lies, and Sweatshops: How Chinese Suppliers Hide the Truth From U.S. Companies.” BusinessWeek. November 27, 2006..

The Associated Press. “Activist Criticize China Toy Factory.” The New York Times. December 22, 2006.www.nytimes.com/aponline/world.

The Associated Press. “Labor Group Slams Bratz Doll Factory in China—Workers Making Popular Toy Seen Working Long Hours, Benefits Denied.” December 22, 2006.

Turner, Douglas. “U.S. Ignores Abuse of Chinese Workers.” China Labor Watch. December 18, 2006.

Wilde, Joseph; de Haan, Esther. The High Cost of Calling: Critical Issues in the Mobile Phone Industry. SOMO, Amsterdam: November 2006.

Yardley, Jim. “Chinese Workers Protest at Factory Making Toys for McDonald’s.” The New York Times. July 28, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/world/asia/28china.html.

*SOURCE UNKNOWN: Report: Whose Miracle? How China’s Workers Are Paying For the Price for Its Economic Boom.

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2005 China Factory Reports

Bloomberg News. “Report Rips China Factories Used by Wal-Mart.” CLW. December 16, 2005.

China Labour Bulletin. Deadly Dust: The Silicosis Epidemic Among Guangdong Jewellery Workers and the Defects of China’s Occupational Illnesses Prevention and Compensation System. CLB Research Series: No.1. December 2005.

China Labour Bulletin. Protecting Workers Rights in a Marketizing Economy. China Labour Bulletin Research Series, 2005.

China Labour Bulletin. The Toy Industry in China: Undermining Workers’ Rights and Rule of Law. New York: September 2005.

China Labor Watch and National Labor Committee. Blood and Exhaustion: Behind Bargain Toys Made in China for Wal-Mart and Dollar General. December, 21, 2005. http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/upload/Huangwu.pdf.

China Labor Watch and National Labor Committee. Holiday Cards of Abuse, Wal-Mart in China: What They Do Not Want Us to Know. December 2005.

China Labor Watch. “Kingmaker Footwear (Timberland Made in China).” December 18, 2004. www.chinalaborwatch.org.

China Labor Watch. The Kohler Company’s Factory in Foshan, China: Dangerous Working Conditions, Long Hours and Little Pay. New York: June 2005.

China Labor Watch. Proctor and Gamble In China: Workers Fall Through the Cracks. December 1, 2005. www.chinalaborwatch.org/upload/ProctorandGambleInvestigation.pdf.

China Labor Watch and National Labor Committee. Wal-Mart Sweatshop Toys Made in China:  “Always Low Prices” Means Rolling Back Respect for Human Rights. December 2005.

Jeffreyd@mindspring.com. “FW(Nike-related) Survey: Non-Adherence to China’s Labor Laws.” December 29, 2005.

National Labor Committee. Disney’s Children’s Books Made with the Blood, Sweat and Tears of Young Workers in China. August 18, 2005.

National Labor Committee. Disney in China: Making Children’s Books at the Nord Race Factories. August 2005.

Pareles, Michael. “Crushed: A Survey of Work Injuries and Treatment in the Pearl River Delta.” China Labour Watch, September 2005.

SACOM. “Looking for Mickey Mouse’s Conscience—A Survey of the Working Conditions of Disney Factories in China.” August 12, 2005.

Svenska Metall.The Challenge of China. Stockholm: August 2005.

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November 2005

MAJOR REPORTS AND NEW RESOURCES ON GLOBAL WORKPLACES

Mexico

- "Economic Opportunities and Challenges posed by China for Mexico and Central America," by Enrique Dussel Peters, 2005. Available at: http://dusselpeters.com

- "Unions and Social Benefits in the Maquiladoras," article by Cirila Quintero Ramirez, 2005. Available from: cquintero@riogrande.net.mx

- "Trade Unionism on the Northern Mexico Border: Its National and Local Heritage;" and "Effect of Unions in the Mexican Maquiladoras: A comparative analysis between Matamoros and Ciudad Juarez," two papers by Cirila Quintero Ramirez, August 2005. Available from: cquintero@riogrande.net.mx

- "Mexican Workers Since NAFTA": "The Escalating Struggles Over Mexico's Labor Law," by Dan LaBotz and Robin Alexander, "The Decline of the Decent Job," by Carlos Salas, "Stories from the Borderlands," by David Bacon, "A Generation of Migrants: Where They Leave, Where They End Up," by Leigh Binford, and "Landmarks in U.S. Immigration Policy," by James T. Kimer," NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 39, No. 1, July/August 2005. Available at: http://www.nacla.org/issue_disp.php?iss=39|1

- "Alcoa's High Tech Sweatshops in Mexico & Honduras: The Race to the Bottom from NAFTA to CAFTA," by the National Labor Committee in New York City, July 2005.  Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org

- "A Compact for North American Competitiveness: A Strategy for Building Competitiveness Within North America," by U.S. Council of the Mexico-U.S. Council of the Business Committee (MEXUS), a committee of the Council of the Americas, April 2005. Available at: http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/publications/Papers/MEXUS%20Compact%20on%20Competitiveness.pdf

- "Health and Safety Rollback in the Maquiladora Industry; Declining health and safety reflects intensified attack on labor rights," by Julia Quinonez and Ricardo Hernandez (of the Comite Fronterizo de Obreros and the American Friends Service Committee, respectively), April 2005.  Available at: http://cfomaquiladoras.org 

- "Cross-Border Campaign Wins Maquila Demands," Citizen Action in the Americas, No. 16, report by the Americas Program of the International Relations Center (IRC), February 2005.  Available at: http://www.americaspolicy.org

- "Public Communication to the U.S. NAO (National Administrative Office)," submitted by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and twenty labor organizations from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, a legal challenge to Mexican Labor Law Reforms under NAFTA Labor Side Agreement, February 17, 2005. Available at: http:// www.wola.org/economic/nafta_naalc_final_jsv.pdf

- "Globalization at the Crossroads, ten years of NAFTA in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region," a report from the Environmental Health Coalition in January 2005. Available at: http://www.environmentalhealth.org

- "Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration project," edited by Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey, September 2004. Available at: http://www.russellsage.org

- "Downsizing the State: Privatization and the Limits of Neoliberal Reform in Mexico," by Dag MacLeod, May 2004. Available at: http://www.psupress.org

China

- "New Practices of Labor Organizing: Community-based Organization of Migrant Women Workers in South China," by Pun Ngai, President of the Chinese Working Women Network and Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Available from: Pun Ngai at sonpun@ust.hk

- "China Social Compliance For Textile & Apparel Industry: Principles and Guidelines (2005)," by China National Textile & Apparel Council, 2005. Available at: http://www.ctmtc.com/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/InfoContent.html?InfoContent150_action=show&InfoPublish_InfoID=c373e9045b26189d8fefcfdba4e0e475

- Occupational Safety and Health in China, Part I: U.S.-China Symposium on ÔIntegrating Occupational and Environmental Health," by Margaret Quinn, Ken Geiser, and Li Lin, New Solutions, Vol. 15(2) 181-183, 2005. Available at: http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?id=dp6ar65dvqh8h63r

- "Occupational Safety and Health in China, Part II: Three-Tier Prevention and Control for Occupational and Agricultural Hazards in Hebei Province," by Xu Ying, Li Lin, Cui Lizheng, and Margaret Quinn, New Solutions, Vol. 15(2) 184-198, 2005. Available at: http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?id=dp6ar65dvqh8h63r

- "China: The Colossus Rises," by Asad Ismi, published in Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor, October 2005. Available at: http://www.policyalternatives.ca

- "China's ÔPeaceful Rise' to Great-Power Status," by Zheng Bijian, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005, Volume 84, Number 5. Available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/2005/5.html

- "China's Global Hunt for Energy," by David Zweig and Bi Jianhai," Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005, Volume 84, Number 5. Available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/2005/5.html

- "China's Search for Stability With America," by Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005, Volume 84, Number 5. Available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/2005/5.html

- "Understanding China," by Kishore Mahbubani, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005, Volume 84, Number 5. Available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/2005/5.html

- "China could become world's largest exporter by 2010," by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) September 2005. Available at: http://www.oecd.org

- "OECD Policy Brief: Economic Survey of China, 2005," by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), September 2005. Available at: http://www.oecd.org

- "Economic Survey of China, 2005," by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), September 2005. Available at: http://www.oecd.org

- "Crushed: A Survey of Work Injuries and Treatment in the Pearl River Delta," by Michael Pareles, China Labor Watch, September 2005. Available at http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/upload/workinjuryreport.pdf

- "The Toy Industry in China: Undermining Workers' Rights and Rule of Law," report by China Labor Watch, September 2005. Available at http://www.chinalaborwatch.org

- "The Challenge of China—trade union and industrial perspectives," by Josefine Larsson, Research Department of Svenska Metall, August 2005.

- "Looking for Mickey Mouse's Conscience – A survey of the working conditions of Disney factories in China," series of reports by the Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) in Hong Kong and the National Labor Committee in New York City in August 2005.  Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org

- "Disney's Children's Books Made with the Blood, Sweat and Tears of Young Workers in China," report by the National Labor Committee, August 2005. Available at http://www.nlcnet.org or in Chinese at http://www.sacom.org.hk

- "Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons," by Pete Engardio, BusinessWeek, August 22-29 2005. Available at: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_34/b3948411.htm

- "China & India," Special Report, BusinessWeek, August 22-29, 2005. Available at: http://www.businessweek.com

- "Waking Up to Their Rights: A grassroots movement of activists and lawyers is helping increasingly assertive workers get their due," by Dexter Roberts, BusinessWeek, August 22-29, 2005. Available at http://www.businessweek.com

- "Land of 74,000 Protests (but Little Is Ever Fixed), by Howard W. French, New York Times, August 24, 2005. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com

- "Warning of unrest over income gap," South China Morning Post, August 23, 2005. Available at: http://daga.dhs.org/daga/readingroom/newsclips/2005/wto/

- "The Key to Eliminating Coalmine Accidents is to Get Workers Involved in Monitoring Occupational Health and Safety: Some Thoughts after the 7 August Daxing Mine Disaster," China Labour Bulletin NewsFlash No. 56 (August 16, 2005). Available from http://www.china-labour.org.hk

- "China Worries that Foreign NGOs are Importing a Color Revolution," by Central News Agency Reporter Lin Yuguo, Hong Kong, August 6, 2005. Available at http://www.chinalaborwatch.org

- "A Chinese City's Rage at the Rich And Powerful: Beating of Student Sparks Riot, Looting," by Edward Cody, Washington Post, August 1, 2005. Available at http://washingtonpost.com

- "Chinese Labour Struggles," an interview with Han Dongfang, New Left Review, July/August 2005. Available at http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR26803.shtml

- "Global Production and Corporate Business Ethics: Company Codes of Conduct Implementation and its Implication on Labour Rights in China," by Pun Ngai (of Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), China Journal, July 2005. Available from: Pun Ngai at sonpun@ust.hk

- "China Warns Citizens It Won't Tolerate Threats to Stability," by Jim Yardley, New York Times, July 31, 2005. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com

- "Anger in China Rises Over Threat to Environment," by Howard W. French, New York Times, July 19, 2005. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com

- "A Chinese Riot rooted in Confusion: Lacking a Channel for Grievances, Garment Workers Opt to Strike," by Edward Cody, Washington Post Foreign Service, July 18, 2005. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com

- "Rural Poor Aren't Sharing in Spoils of China's Changes: Costs of Goods Rise, Standard of Living Falls," by Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post Foreign Service, July 12, 2005. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com

- "Mao's Legacy in China's Current Development," by Pao-yu Ching, June 28, 2005. Available at: http://www.chinastudygroup.org/article/113

- "Workplace Safety in China," China Labour E-Bulletin No. 26 (June 20, 2005) from the China Labour Bulletin in Hong Kong. Available at: http://www.clb.org.hk

- "Gender and Global Labor Organizing: Migrant Women Workers of Garment Industry in South China," by Jenny Wai-ling Chan, May 2005. Available from: Jenny Wai-ling Chan at wlchan@cwwn.org or wailing@hkusua.hku.hk

- "'Easy to Manage': A report on Chinese Toy Workers and the Responsibility of the Companies" by Kristina Bjurling of SwedWatch and the Fair Trade Centre,  in Sweden, May 2005.  Available at: http://www.swedwatch.org

- "Kingmaker Footwear (Timberland made in China), report by China Labor Watch in New York City, May 2005.  Available at: http://www.chinalaborwatch.org

- "Alcoa Joint Venture with Chinese General," by National Labor Committee, July 2002, updated March 2005. Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org/news/5_AlcoaChinaComplete.pdf

- "New Points of Production: Homework and Shoemaking in Asia," by Pia Markkanen and Charles Levenstein, New Solutions, Vol. 14(4) 301-318, 2004. Available at: http://baywood.metapress.com

- "The Changing Nature of Corporate Global Restructuring: the Impact of Production Shifts on Jobs in the U.S., China, and Around the Glove," a report for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, by Kate Bronfenbrenner and Stephanie Luce, October 2004. Available at: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/international/downloads/News/UsccCornell-umassReport.pdf

- "My Journey to Hong Kong and China: A labor activist and sweatshop worker revisits his home country," by Lee Siu Hin, Z Magazine, July/August 2004. Available at: http://zmagsite.zmag.org/JulAug2004/hin0804.html

- "Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China," by Pun Ngai, Gender and Development Vol. 12, No. 2, July 2004. Available at: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/resources/downloads/gendevtrade-5.pdf

- "China's Distribution Service Market Entering Phase of Full-Scale Opening," by Tatsuki Onda, Nomura Research Institute, May 2004. Available at: http://www.nri.co.jp/english/opinion/papers/2004/pdf/np200476.pdf

USA

- "Occupational Medicine: the Case For Reform," article by Joseph LaDou, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005. Available at: http://occ-env-med.mc.duke.edu/oem/ladou.htm

- "Truth and Consequences of Offshoring: Recent studies overstate the benefits and ignore the costs to American workers," by L. Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute, 2005. Available at: http://epinet.or

- "Reinforcing the Seams: Guaranteeing California's Landmark AntiSweatshop Law, An Evaluation of Assembly Bill 633 Six years Later," report by Sweatshop Watch and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, September 2005. Available at: http://www.swatshopwatch.org/

- "Not Walking the Talk: DuPont's Untold Safety Failures," report by the United Steelworkers International Union, September 2005. Available at: http://www.uswa.org

- "Globalization: Numerous Federal Activities Complement U.S. Business's Global Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts," report by U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), September 7, 2005. Available at: http://www.gao.gov

- "Immigrant Workers at Risk: The Urgent Need for Improved Workplace Safety and Health Policies and Programs," by AFL-CIO, August 2005. Available at: http://www.aflcio.org

- "Free and Fair?: How Labor Law Fails U.S. Democratic Election Standards," report by Gordon Lafer, American Rights at Work, June 2005. Available at: http://www.americanrightsatwork.org

- "A Systematic Approach to Occupational and Environmental Health," by Skip Spitzer, Rachel's Environment & Health News #817, May 12, 2005. Available at: http://www.rachel.org

- "Freedom Denied: Forced Labor in California," by Human Rights Center, University of California Berkeley, February 2005. Available at: http://www.hrcberkeley.org

- "Crisis or Opportunity? The Future of Los Angeles' Garment Workers, the Apparel Industry and the Local Economy," report by Sweatshop Watch and Garment Worker Center, November 2004. Available at: http://www.sweatshopwatch.org

- "The McDonaldization of Society," book by George Ritzer, identifies the four rationalist principles of efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control, describes how they have become nearly ubiquitous through society, notes dehumanization, January 2004. Available at: http://www.pineforge.com

- "The Rise and Fall of Occupational Medicine the United States," by Joseph LaDou, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2002. Available at: http://www.sfms.org/sfm/sfm104b.htm

Occupational health and safety

- "Introductory Report: Decent Work – Safe Work," report from the International Labor Organization released in April is a global status report on workplace safety and health around the world.  It has the latest statistics and analysis of trends, most of them not good. Available at: http://www.ilo.org/publns

- "Working for Life: Sourcebook on Occupational Health for Women," is published by the Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC) in Hong Kong is a "how-to" manual for women workers and unionists to "develop action-oriented strategies based on the realities in their own workplace." Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk

- "Prevention: A global strategy: Promoting Safety and Health at Work," the International Labour Organization Report for World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Geneva, 2005. Available at: http://www.ilo.org

- "Organising for Health and Safety: A TUC Resource for use in the workplace," by Trades Union Congress (TUC), September 2005. Available at: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-10626-f0.cfm

- "OSH Disparities in Developing Countries; The SH&E professional as an agent of change," by Michael Findley and June Gorski, in the April 2005 issue of "Professional Safety," journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE).  Available at: http://www.asse.org

- "Occupational Health and Safety and the Poorest: Final report of a consultancy for the Department for International Development," by Francie Lund and Anna Marriott, School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, March 31, 2005. Available from: Francie Lund at lundf@ukzn.ac.za and Anna Marriott at 204507782@ukzn.ac.za

- "Enlarging the power of occupational safety and health in the European Union," by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2004 annual report. Available at: http://agency.osha.eu.int/OSHA

Reports from factories around the world

- "Public Report for the period July 2004 – August 2005," by the Independent Monitoring Team of Honduras (EMIH), September 29, 2005. Available from: EMI Honduras

- "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment of Easy Group (Mariveles/ BEZ, Philippines): Easy Fashion Corporation, Allen Garments, & Kasumi Apparel Ltd. Corporation," by Worker Rights Consortium, September 20, 2005. Available at: http://www.workersrights.org

- "Lear in Honduras: Violation of Workers' Rights and Below-Subsistence Wages," by National Labor Committee, July 2005. Available at http://www.nlcnet.org

- "Alcoa's Sweatshops in Honduras," by the National Labor Committee in New York City, July 2005.  Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org

- "NFL and NBA Workers in Honduras," by the National Labor Committee in New York City, July 2005. Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org

- "Auto Parts Workers in Nicaragua Denied their rights & Paid just 41 cents an hour," by the National Labor Committee in New York City, July 2005. Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org

- "'Easy to Manage': A report on Chinese Toy Workers and the Responsibility of the Companies" by Kristina Bjurling of SwedWatch and the Fair Trade Centre,  in Sweden, May 2005.  Available at: http://www.swedwatch.org

- "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: The Cut Flower Industry," Case Study, Northern Sierra of Ecuador, by Norma Mena and Silvia Proano, for the International Labor Rights Fund, April 2005. Available at: http://www.laborrights.org/publications/Sexual%20harassment%20Ecuador.pdf

- "Assessment of PT Busana Prima Global, Gunung Putri, Bogor, Indonesia," by Mr. Fransiskus X. Supiarso, Independent Investigator, March 31, 2005. Available at: http://www.oxfam,org.au/campaigns/nike/action/busanaprima.html

- "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment at Far East Garment Textile and First Apparel (Thailand)," by Worker Rights Consortium, February 8, 2005. Available at: http://www.workersrights.org

- "Tae Hwa Indonesia – a case study of labour conditions in the sportswear industry," by the Play Fair at the Olympics campaign (Oxfam, Global Unions, Clean Clothes Campaign), August 2004. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/04-09-fila_casestudy.pdf

Globalization issues

- "What Do Wal-Mart's Low Prices Mean for Women Globally?," by STITCH. Available at: http://www.stichonline.org/archives/womenandwalmart.asp

- "Research on Garment Industry subcontracting Chains In Nine Countries," by women Working Worldwide. Available at: http://www.poptel.org.uk/women-ww

- "Fact Sheet #1: Multi-Fibre Arrangement," "Fact Sheet #2: Glossary," "Fact Sheet #3: Proposed Program of Action: Fair Labour Practices in the Post Quota World," Fact Sheet #4: The Cambodia Experiment," Fact Sheet #5: What Does CAFTA Mean for the Central American Garment Industry?," by Maquila Solidarity Network. Available at: http://www.maquilasolidarity.org

- "Mapping the End of the MFA," report by AccountAbility. Available at: http://www.accountability.org.uk

- "Managing the Transition to a Responsible Global Textiles and Garment Industry," report by AccountAbility, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and the World Bank. Available at: http://www.accountability.org.uk

- "The Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) Strategic Sourcing Impact: The Private Sector Perspective," report on results of a BSR survey of company views on the effect of the phase-out on future sourcing decisions. Available at: http://www.accountability.org.uk

- " Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: the Anti-sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice," by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, 2005. Available at http://wox.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/4/464

- "Asian multinationals in Africa: Information and strategy guide," "Organising and Campaigning: Developing union strategy and capacity," and "A story of organizing: A shopfloor workbook," a booklet series for garment workers in Africa, by IRENE, CSRSC, SOMO, EED and FNV, 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/05-africa-booklet.htm

- "A Global Alliance Against Forced Labour," by International Labour Organization, 2005. Available at: http://www.ilo.org

- "Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power," book by Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark, 2005. Available at: http://www.globalexchange.org

- "Pushing Back... Workers Speak Out on Free Trade," book from STITCH: Women Organizing for Worker Justice, Chicago, IL, 2005.  Available at: http://www.stitchonline.org

- "Challenging the Chip: labor rights and environmental justice in the global electronics industry," book edited by Ted Smith, David Sennenfeld and David Pellow, Temple University Press, 2005.  Available at: http://www.svtc.org

- "We Can Change the World," book by David Stratman, New Democracy Books, Boston, 2005.  Available at: http://www.newdemocracyworld.org

- "Asian Transnational Corporation Outlook 2004: Asian TNCs, workers, and the movement of capital," by Asian Transnational Corporation Monitoring Network and Asian Monitor Resource Center, 2005. Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk/

- "Struggle for Justice: Workers' Compensation Systems in the Asia Pacific Region," by Asia Monitor Resource Centre, 2005. Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk/

- "CSR issues in the ICT hardware manufacturing sector," report by Irene Schipper and Esther de Haan, SOMO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005.  Available at: http://www.somo.nl

- "Blood , Sweat & Tears: Asia's Poor build U.S. Bases in Iraq," by David Phinney, CorpWatch, October 3, 2005. Available at: http://www.corpwatch.org

- "The Price of a Sample," by Joseph McCafferty, CFO, August 2005. Available at: http://www.cfo.com

- "Wages in Turkey's Textiles and Garment Sector" and "Overtime and Excessive Overtime in the Turkey garment industry," by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights, July 2005. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org/pub/turkey.shtml

- "Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America: 1994-2004," by Gilette Hall and Harry Anthony Patrinos, The World Bank, July 2005. Available at: http://www.worldbank.org

- "Overtime and excessive overtime: Legal requirements, compliance situations and opportunities for the Turkish (Istanbul) garment industry," by Sjef Stoop, Fair Wear  Foundation, submitted July 2005 for a Jo-In seminar at MIT Boston. Available at: http://www.fairwear.nl

- "Trade Union Statement to the Gleneagles G8 summit," by the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), July 2005. Available at: http://www.tuac.org/statemen/communiq/StG8Gleneagles2005_E_Whp.pdf

- "After the FTAA; Lessons from Europe for the Americas," report by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC., June 2005.  Available at: http://www.ips-dc.org

- "Trade Wars – Revenge of the Myth: Deals for Trade Votes Gone Bad," report by Public Citizen, June 2005. Available at: http://www.citizen.org

- "In the Balance: Why Debts Must be Cancelled Now to Meet the Millennium Development goals," joint NGO briefing paper by Jubilee Debt Campaign, ActionAid UK and Christian Aid, June 2005. Available at: http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk

- "Central American Sugar Reports: Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica reports," by the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF), June 29, 2005. Available at: http://www.laborrights.org/projects/linklabor/index.html

- "Manufacturing Global Challenges and Opportunities," by Ian Brinkley, chief Economist, Trades Union Congress (TUC), United Kingdom, June 28, 2005. Available at: http://www.tuc.org.uk

- "The Wal-Mart Effect: The World Trade Organization and the Race to the Bottom," by Ellen Israel Rosen, Chapman Law Review v. 8 (Spring 2005) p. 261-282. Available at: http://www.laborstandards.org

- "Defending Sweatshops: Too Much Logic, Too Little Evidence," by Richard Rothstein, Spring 2005. Available at: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/articles/sp05/rothstein.htm

- "Real Aid: An Agenda for Making Aid Work," report by ActionAid International, May 2005. Available at: http://www.actionaid.org

- "Building International Solidarity: African Asian Networking," Report on the Solidarity Workshop for African Garment workers held in Swaziland, by the Clean Clothes Campaign, May 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/pub.htm

- "The Real Pirates of the Caribbean: U.S. High Tech Industry's False CFTA Promises Disguise Bad Policy," by Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WASHTECH), Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), and American Ingenuity Alliance (AIA), May 2005. Available at: http://www.washtech.org/reports/pirates/PiratesOfTheCaribbean.pdf

- "Gender and Labour Codes in Export Value Chains," paper by Stephanie Barrientos, DFID Labour Standards and Poverty Forum, April 2005. Available from: info@maquilasolidarity.org

- "The Good Neighbor Policy—A History to Make Us Proud," by Tom Barry, Laura Carlsen, and John Gershman, April 2005. Available at http://www.irc-online.org

- "Global Supply Chains and the world of Capitalist Work," by Chang Dae-oup, Asian Labour Update Issue Number 54, January – March 2005. Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk

- "Textile and apparel sourcing: the complexity behind low-cost labour in supply chains," by Dennis Arnold, Asian Labour Update Issue Number 54, January – March 2005. Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk

- "Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Labor Markets in Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia, and South Africa," edited by Tony Virgan, L. Josh Bivens and Srah Gammage, Economic Policy Institute, Global Policy Network, March 2005. Available at: http://www.epinet.org

- "NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Cases: Lessons for the Central America Free Trade Agreement," report by Public Citizen, February 2005. Available at http://www.citizen.org

- "Trade Union Guide to Globalisation," by ICFTU, January 2005. Available at - http://www.icftu.org/pubs/globalisation

- "Garment Industry Supply Chains: a resource for worker education and solidarity," by Women Working Worldwide, 2004. Available at: http://www.poptel.org.uk/women-ww/resources.html

- "Womens's work in Export Processing Zones and in the informal economy," report by Sudwind, German CCC, 2004. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/05-01-25.htm

- "Auto Report 2004," by International Metalworkers' Federation, 2004. Available at: http:// www.imfmetal.org/main/files/AR2004_english.pdf

- "Behind the Brand Names: Working Conditions and Labour Rights in Export Processing Zones," report by ICFTU, December 2004. Available at: http://www.icftu.orgwww/PDF/EPZreportE.pdf

- "Understanding  ÔGlobalization' as a Determinant of Health Determinants: A Critical Perspective," by Jerry M. Spiegel, Ronald Labonte, and Aleck S. Ostry, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, V. 10, N. 4, October/December 2004. Available at: http://www.ijoeh.com/archive_01.html

"Globalization and the Health of the Health Care Workforce," by Annalee Yassi, Gustav J. Wickstrom, and Marisa Palacios, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, V. 10, N. 4, October/December 2004. Available at: http://www.ijoeh.com/archive_01.html

- "The Changing Nature of Corporate Global Restructuring: the Impact of Production Shifts on Jobs in the U.S., China, and Around the Glove," a report for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, by Kate Bronfenbrenner and Stephanie Luce, October 2004. Available at: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/international/downloads/News/UsccCornell-umassReport.pdf

- "Attracting FDI through the Spread of Free Trade Agreements: Unravelling the Rationale and Impact on Labour Conditions in ASEAN," by Dennis Arnold (of Thai Labour Campaign) and Asian TNC Monitoring Network, May 2004. Available from http://www.thailabor.org

Codes of conduct

- "Workers' tool or PR ploy? A guide to codes of international labour practice," by Ingeborg Wick; Sudwind Institute, 4th revised edition; 2005; available at: www.cleanclothes.org

- "MFA Forum Updates," from the Maquila Solidarity Network. Available at: http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/resources/post_mfa/MFA%20Forum/framework.htm

- "CSR Training: Corporate Social Responsibility, From Ideas to Action," an introductory course by CSR Asia in Hong Kong, December 2-3 2005. http://www.csr-asia.com

- "Brand Campaigns & Worker Organizing: Lessons from Lesotho, Thailand and Honduras," profiling three successful brand campaigns that helped defend workers' right to organize, by Maquila Solidarity Network, October 2005. Available from: info@maquilasolidarity.org

- "WTO Panel Condemns Breaks for Some Firms," by the Associated Press, September 2005. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com

- Global NGO Coalition calls for tighter regulation of multinational corporations: Five Year Review by OECD Watch concludes OECD Guidelines are failing to deliver corporate accountability," by OECD Watch, September 2005. Available at: http://www.oecdwatch.org

 "Codes Memo," Number 19, examines developments in voluntary codes of conduct, as well as government action on corporate social responsibility and labour rights, by Maquila Solidarity Network, September 2005. Available at: http://www.maquilasolidarity.org

- "Sweatshop Workers on Four Continents Sue Wal-Mart in California Court," Press Release contact: Ira Arlook, September 13, 2005. Available at: http://laborrights.org/press/wal-Mart/lawsuit_pressrelease_091305.htm

- "Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement," edited by Deborah Eade (Editor of the Development in Practice Journal) and Alan Leather (Deputy Secretary General of Public Services International), July 2005. Available at: http://www.kpbooks.com

- "Variations in codes of conduct," "Wages in the Apparel industry: what constitutes a Decent Standard," "Work hours, overtime and codes of conduct," and "Report of MIT / Jo-In Forum, July 11th and 12th, 2005," by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights, July 2005. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org/pub/turkey.shtml

- "2004 Social Responsibility Report," by Gap Inc., July 2005. Available at: http://www.gapinc.com

- "The Play Fair at the Olympics Campaign: an evaluation of the company responses," by Jeroen Merk, Clean Clothes Campaign, ICFTU, Oxfam, June 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/campaign/olympics2004-eval-company-response.htm

- "Collaborative Framework and Research Reports," on the predicted impacts of the elimination of import quotas for the apparel and textile sectors on January 1, 2005, by the MFA Forum, June 2005. Available at: http://www.mfaforum.org

- "Low pay, factory needs defeat efforts to limit OT: Nike says it's trying to prevent overtime abuse, but workers seek out the extra hours to survive," by Richard Read, June 2005. Available at: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1119089300131700.xml&col=7

- "Report of Jo-In / ILO Technical meeting of social auditors operating in Turkey, May 18th, 2005" by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights, May 2005. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org/pub/turkey.shtml

- "Quick fix or lasting solution? Dealing responsibly with typical non-compliance," Ethical Trade: shaping a new agenda, Briefing paper No. 1, by Ethical Trading Initiative, May 2005.  Available at: http://www.ethicaltrade.org

- "Draft Code of Labour Practice," by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights," May 2005. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org

- "The Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI): A Critical Perspective," by the Clean Clothes Campaign, May 2005. Available at: : http://www.cleanclothes.org/codes/05-05-bsci-report.htm

- "Fair Purchasing Practices? Some Issues for Discussion," by Jeroen Merk, paper written for CCC Round Table on Purchasing Practices in London, May 11, 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/05-05-purchasin_practices.htm

- "Corporate Responsibility Report: Part I," by Nike, Inc, April 2005. Available at: http://www.nikeresponsibility.com

- "2nd ICT Round Table Guadalajara, Mexico: strategies for campaigning," organized by SOMO and Cereal, April 2005. Available at: http://www.somo.nl or http://www.sjsocial.org/fomento/

- "Guias de Buenas Practicas de Contratacion, Terminacion, Procedimientos Disciplinarios y Solucion de Quejas," by Fair Labor Association, April 2005. Available at: www.fairlabor.org/all/reports/FLA_GGP_v2-0_esp.pdf

- "Gender and Labour Codes in Export Value Chains," by Stephanie Barrientos, DFID Labour Standards and Poverty Forum, April 2005. Available from: info@maquilasolidarity.org

- "Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa," by Esther de Haan of Center for research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and Michael Koen of Civil Society research and Support Collective (CSRSC), March 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/05-03-africa_action_research.htm

- "Report of the Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Right: report of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and related business enterprises with regard to human rights," by the 61st Commission on Human Rights, February 2005. Available at: http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/sessions/61/lisdocs.htm

- "Report of the seminar on ÔCampaigning strategies on informal labour in the global garment industry," by the Clean Clothes Campaign, December 2004. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/04-12-informal_labour_seminar_report.pdf

- "The Global Garment Industry and Informal Employment: Critical Issues for Labour Rights Advocates," by Nina Ascoly, September 2004. Available at: http://www.lceanclothes.org/publications/04-09-informal_labour_seminar01.htm

- "Background Study on Labor Conditions and Social Auditing in the Turkish Garment Industry," by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights, July 2004. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org/pub/turkey.shtml

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April 2004 – March 2005 comprehensive list

MAJOR REPORTS AND NEW RESOURCES ON GLOBAL WORKPLACES

February 2005 Newsletter Listings:

Multi-Fiber Arrangement

- Sweatshop Watch, Globalization & the Apparel Industry web page with numerous reports and analysis; www.sweatshopwatch.org

- Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) web page with fact sheets, reports and analyses; www.iccr.org

- IRC Americas Program, Todd Tucker, "Why CAFTA Can’t Save Central America from the Textile Quota Expiration;" January 2005; www.americaspolicy.org

- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), "Disaster Looms with the end of the Quota System," November 2004; www.icftu.org

- Sweatshop Watch, "Crisis of Opportunity? The Future of Los Angeles’ Garment Workers, the Apparel Industry and the Local Economy," November 2004; www.sweatshopwatch.org

- Ethical Trading Initiative, "MFA Phase-Out: Who gains? Who loses?; October 2004; www.ethicaltrade.org

- Asia Monitor Resource Center, Asian Labour Update magazine, special issue on the MFA, Issue No. 52, July-September 2004; www.amrc.org

- SUDWING Institute, Sabine Ferenschild and Ingeborg Wick, "Global Game for Cuffs and Collars: The Phase-Out of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing Aggravates Social Divisions," July 2004; www.suedwind-institut.de

- Richard Applebaum, "Assessing the Impact of the Phasing Out of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing on Apparel Exports on the Least Developed and Developing Countries," May 2004; posted at www.sweatshopwatcch.org

- SOMO, "Bulletin on Issues in Garments and Textiles," No. 5, April 2004; www.somo.nl

- Oxfam International, "Stitched Up, How rich country protectionism in textiles and clothing trade prevents poverty alleviation," April 2004; www.oxfam.org

- Oxfam Hong Kong, "Turning the Garment Industry Inside Out; Purchasing Practices and Workers’ Lives," April 2004; www.oxfam.org.hk

- World Trade Organization, Hildegunn Kyvik Nordas, "The Global Textile and Clothing Industry Post the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing," 2004; www.wto.org

- ICFTU, "Disaster looms with the end of the quota system," IDM Autumn 2004, Issue No. 33, November 23, 2004; www.icftu.org

- Labor Notes, #311, February 2005; www.labornotes.org

Selected Reports and Articles

- Environmental Health Coalition, "Globalization at the Crossroads: Ten Years of NAFTA in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region," November 2004; available at: www.environmentalhealth.org

- David Bacon, "The Toxic Border," IRC Americas Program, December 2004; available at: www.americaspolicy.org/reports/2004/0412toxic.html

- Kathryn Kopinak, editor, "The Social Costs of Industrial Growth in Northern Mexico," Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego; October 2004; available from usmpubs@ucsd.edu

- Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, "Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice," 2005; available at: www.antisweatshopmovement.org

- Jill Esbenshade, "Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers and the Global Apparel Industry," July 2004; available at: www.temple.edu/tempress

- Maquila Solidarity Network, Codes Memo Numbers #17 and #18, Labor Standards Reporting (#17) and Special Issue on Code Compliance Processes (#18), July 2004 and December 2004/January 2005; available at: www.maquilasolidarity.org

- Ellen R. Shaffer, Howard Waitzkin, Joseph Bremmer and Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar, "Global Trade and Public Health," American Journal of Public Health, January 2005, Vol. 95, No. 1.

- "Project Kaleidoscope, A Collaborative Project to Encourage Sustained Code Compliance," report from 10 project partners including McDonald’s Corporation and the Walt Disney Company; January 2005; available at: www.asyousow.org

- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), "Behind the brand names: Working conditions and labour rights in export processing zones," December 2004; available at: www.icftu.org

- Verite, "Excessive Overtime in Chinese Supplier factories; Causes, Impacts, and Recommendations for Action," September 2004; available at: www.verite.org

- International Forum on Globalization (IFG), "Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible," second edition, October 2004; available at: www.ifg.org

- Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, "The Ten Worst Corporations of 2004," December 2004, available from monitor@essential.org

Mexico

- Huberto Juarez Nunez, "La Industria Maquiladora de Confeccion de Prendas de Vestir en Mexico," Centro de Investigacion y Estudios de Posgrado, Cuidad Universitaria, Puebla; November 2002.

- Amnesty International, "Mexico," covering events January — December 2003, Report 2004; available at www.web.amnesty.org/report2004/index-eng

- David L. Markell and John H. Knox, editors, "Greening NAFTA: The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation," Stanford University Press, 2003, available from www.sup.org

- David Bacon, "The Toxic Border," IRC Americas Program, December 2004; available at: www.americaspolicy.org/reports/2004/0412toxic.html

- Kathryn Kopinak, editor, "The Social Costs of Industrial Growth in Northern Mexico," Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego; October 2004; available from usmpubs@ucsd.edu

- Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, "Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice," Routledge, September 2004; available at www.antisweatshopmovement.org

- Environmental Health Coalition, "Globalization at the Crossroads: Ten Years of NAFTA in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region," 2004; available from www.environmentalhealth.org

- James M. Cypher, "Socioeconomic Characteristics and Impacts of Mature Maquilization: Is Mexico at a Turing Point?," paper delivered at the 2004 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association in Las Vegas, Nevada; California State University at Fresno; available from James M. Cypher at jamesc@csufresno.edu

- Jonathan Fox, "The Politics of North American Economic Integration," University of California at Santa Cruz, Latin American Research Review, University of Texas Press, Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2004; available at www.utexas.edu/utpress/

- Nuria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde, "Globalization and Health at the United States-Mexico Border," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 93, No. 12, December 2003; available from Nuria Homedes at nhomedes@utep.edu

- Benjamin William Mkapa, "Cancun’s False Promise: A View from the South," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004; available at www.foreignaffairs.org

- Elaine Michelle Chalmers, "Environmental Crimes Sin Fronteras: The Grave Legacy of Hazardous Waste and Free Trade Along the Texas-Mexico Border," University of Texas at San Antonio, 2004.

- Solidarity Center, "Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Mexico," 2003; available at www.solidaritycenter.org

- Gordon H. Hanson, "Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico," NBER Website, Friday, January 28, 2005; available at apers.nber.org/papers/W11027

- FEMAP Foundation, "Profile of the Northern Mexican Border and Indexes of Development, Well Being, and Quality of Life along the Northern Mexican Border, 2004," 2004; available from www.femapfoundation.org

- BANAMEX, "The Maquiladora Export Industry: A General and Sectoral Description," Vol. LXXX, No. 946, October 2004; available at www.banamex.com

- IRC Americas Program, "Border Clean Energy Advocates Grab for Power," Citizen Action in the Americas, No. 15, December 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org

- Human Rights Watch, "Mexico: Workers’ Rights at Risk Under Fox Plan," December 9, 2004; available at www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/12/09/mexico9814.htm

- Monica Schurtman, "Los ‘Jonkeados’ and the NAALC: The Autotrim/Customtrim Case and its Implications for Submissions Under the NAFTA Labor Side Agreement," University of Idaho College of Law; available from Monica Schurtman at monicas@uidaho.edu

- Kevin P. Gallagher, "Trading away the environment?", September 23, 2004; available at www.sfgate.com/ and www.globalpolicy.org

- IRC Americas Program, Kevin P. Gallagher, "Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond," September 17, 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org

- IRC Americas Program, Laura Silvan, "Resolving Environmental Problems and Fostering Citizen Participation," October 15, 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org

- IRC Americas Program, Marisa Jacott, "Environmental Recommendations Insufficient to Offset Trade Priorities," October 19, 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org

- IRC Americas Program, Alexandra Spieldoch, "How Have Women Fared?," December 17, 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org

- TRAC, "Ten Years of Environmental Cooperation in North America," 2004; Americas Program summary available at www.irc-online.org; full report available at www.cec.org/

- Laura Carlsen and Hilda Salazar, "Alternative Proposals for a Sustainable Model of Economic Integration," 2004; available at www.irc-online.org

- Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe, "Oportunidades y retos economicos de China para Mexico y Centroamerica," September 2004; available at www.cepal.org

- Mark Weisbrot, David Rosnick, and Dean Baker, "Getting Mexico to Grow With NAFTA: The World Bank’s Analysis," Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 20, 2004; available at www.cepr.org

- Environmental Health Coalition, "Globalization at the Crossroads: Ten Years of NAFTA in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region," November 2004; available at: www.environmentalhealth.org

- Maquila Solidarity Network, "Will the NAFTA Side Agreement Hold the Mexican Government Accountable?," documents Puebla NAO complaint, 2005; available at www.maquilasolidarity.org/campaigns/NAO/index.htm

- Steven Shrybman, "NAFTA illegal?: CUPW, Council of Canadians, launch constitutional challenge against NAFTA in Ontario Superior Court, January 22, 2005; available at www.straightgoods.com

- Chris Hawley, "Mexico’s economic boom fails workers: Many jobless despite bull market," January 10, 2005; available at www.azcentral.com

China

- ILO, "Globalization and Decent Work — an Employment Agenda for China," 2004; available at: www.ilo.org

- Meei-shia Chen and Anita Chan, "Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories," 2003; available from Meei-shia Chen at mschen@mail.ncku.edu.tw and from Anita Chan at anita@coombs.anu.edu.au

- IRC Americas Program, Raul Zibechi, "Privatizations: The End of a Cycle of Plundering," November 1, 2004; www.americaspolicy.org

 

March 15, 2005

- Verite, "Excessive Overtime in Chinese Supplier Factories: Causes, Impacts, and Recommendations for Action," September 2004; www.verite.org

- Oxfam, ""Turning the Garment Industry Inside Out: Purchasing Practices and Workers’ Lives," Oxfam Hong Kong Briefing Paper, April 2004; available at www.oxfam.org

- Oscar Berger, "Balance is the name of the game: The Legitimacy Seeking of a Chinese Civil Organization and the Existence of a Civil society in China," Lund University Department of Political Science, Spring 2004.

- Dr. Robert Scott, Economic Policy Institute, "U.S.-China Trade, 1989-2003: Impact on Jobs and Industries, Nationally and State-by-State," prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, January 11, 2005; available at www.uscc.gov

- Leslie T. Chang, "Company Town: In Chinese Factory, Rhythms of Trade Replace Rural Life; New Generation of Migrants, Increasingly Demanding, Powers Giant Shoemaker; A Movie Theater for Workers," Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2004; available at www.wsj.com

- Joseph Kahn, "China’s ‘Haves’ Stir the ‘Have Nots’ to Violence," The New York Times, December 31, 2004; available at: www.nytimes.com

- Abigail Goldman, "Sweat, Fear and Resignation Amid All the Toys: Despite Mattel’s efforts to police factories, thousands of workers are suffering," Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2004; available at www.latimes.com

- Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song, and Qingjie Xia, "Contrasting Paradigms: Segmentation & Competitiveness in the Formation of the Chinese Labour Market," Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Vol. 2 Issue 3, September 2004; abstract available at www.laborstandards.org, full article available at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14765284.asp

- Anita Chan, "Globalized Chinese Labors and its Impact on International Labor," paper presented at the Conference on Sharing Experiences and Strategies: Peoples Forum on Labor Rights, March 12-13, 2004; available from Anita Chan at anita@coombs.anu.edu.au

- The Solidarity Center, "Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in China," 2004; available at www.solidaritycenter.org

USA

- U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform–Minority Staff Special Investigations Division, "A Special Interest Case Study: The Chemical Industry, the Bush Administration, ad European Efforts to Regulate Chemicals," prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman, April 1, 2004; available at www.reform.house.gov/min

- Massachusetts AFL-CIO, MassCOSH, and Western MassCOSH, "Dying for Work in Massachusetts: The Loss of Life and Limb in Massachusetts Workplaces," April 28, 2004; available at www.massaflcio.org

- AFL-CIO, "Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect: A National and State-by-state Profile of Worker Safety and Health in the United States," 13th Edition, April 2004; available at www.aflcio.org

- Environmental Integrity Project and Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, "America’s Dirtiest Power Plants: Plugged into the Bush Administration," May 2004; available at www.environmentalintegrity.org and www.citizen.org

- Philip Mattera and Anna Purinton with Jeff McCourt, Doug Hoffer, Stephanie Greenwood and Alyssa Talanker, "Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth," Good Jobs First, May 2004; available at www.goodjobsfirst.org

- Carol Zabin, Arindrajit Dube, and Ken Jacobs, "The Hidden Public Costs of Low-Wage Jobs in California," Center for Labor Research and Education, UC Berkeley; prepared for The National Economic Development and Law Center, May 2004.

- Economy Policy Institute, Jared Bernstein, "Minimum Wage and Its Effects on Small Business," testimony given before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Workforce Empowerment and Government Programs, April 29, 2004; available at epinet.org

- Jeff Chapman, "Employment and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Recent State Labor Market Trends," May 2004; available at epinet.org

- Amy Chasanov, "No Longer Getting By: An Increase in the Minimum Wage is Long Overdue," May 2004; available at epinet.org

- sweatshopWATCH, "Free Trade’s Threat to California’s Garment Workers," Fact Sheet A, June 2004; available at www.sweatshopwatch.org

- sweatshopWATCH, "Policy Actions for Economic Justice," Fact Sheet B, June 2004; available at www.sweatshopwatch.org

- Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello, "Outscource This?: American Workers, the Jobs Deficit, and the Fair Globalization Solution," The North American Alliance for Fair Employment, April 2004; available at FairJobs.org

- Economic Policy Institute, Lawrence Mishel and Jared Bernstein, "Income Picture: Weak 2003 labor market leads to lower incomes and higher poverty," August 26, 2004; available at epinet.org

- "U.S. and International Job Protection and Enhancement Act," draft October 2004; available at nclnet.org

- Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Sylvia Allegretto, "The State of Working America 2004/2005," January 2005; available at epinet.org

- U.S. Government Accountability Office, "Safety in the Meat and Poultry Industry, while Improving, Could Be Further Strengthened," January 2005; available at www.gao.gov

- Confined Space, "Stronger Inspection and Monitoring by OSHA Recommended In Meatpacking Plants," January 29, 2005; available at spewingforth.blogspot.com/

- Human Rights Watch, "Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants," 2004; available at www.hrw.org

Occupational health and safety

- International Labor Office, Jeanne Mager Stellman, editor, "Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety," 4th edition 1998; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "The Global Seafarer: Living and Working Conditions in a Globalized Industry," 2004; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Workplace Violence in Services Sectors and Measures to Combat this Phenomenon, 2004; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Guidelines on Safety and Health in Shipbreaking in Asian Countries and Turkey," June 2004; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Security in Ports," June 2004; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, Kimberly Ann Rogers and Duncan Chappell, "Preventing and Responding to Violence at Work," 2003, available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Alcohol and Drug Problems at Work: The Shift to Prevention," 2003, available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Managing Disability in the Workplace," 2003; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "HIV/AIDS and the World of Work," 2002; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Helping Small Businesses Prevent Substance Abuse," 2003; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Safety and Health in the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry," 2003; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Implementing the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work: An Education & Training Manual + CD-ROM," 2002; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Guidelines for the Use of the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumonoconioses," 2002; available atwww.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, Benjamin Alli, "Fundamental principles of Occupational Health and Safety," 2001; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Safety in the Use of Synthetic Vitreous Fibre Insulation Wools (Glass Wool, Rock Wool, Slag Wool), 2001; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- ILO, "Guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems," 2001; available at www.ilo.org/publns

- Andrew Watterson and Rory O’Neill, "The Decline and Imminent Fall of U.K. Governmental Occupational Health: A Tale of Forgotten Lessons and Missed Opportunities," International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Vol. 10, No 3, Jul/Sep 2004; available at www.ijoeh.com

- ILO Socio-Economic Security Programme, "Fact Sheet No. 11: Work insecurity," available at www.ilo.org

- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, "Promoting health and safety in European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)," 2004; available at agency.osha.eu.int/sme/

- Melody Kemp, "Working for Life: Sourcebook on Occupational Health for Women," Isis International, 1999; available at www.isiswomen.org

- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, "Quality of the working Environment and Productivity," 2004; available at agency.osha.eu.int/publications/reports/211/en/Quality_Productivity.PDF

- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, "Monitoring occupational safety and health in the European Union," 2003; available at agency.osha.eu.int

Reports from workplaces around the world

- Bettina Musiolek, "Made in… Eastern Europe: The new ‘fashion colonies,’" 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org

- As You Sow Foundation; Center for Reflection, Education and Action; Connecticut State Treasurer’s Office; Domini Social Investments LLC, General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church; Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility; McDonald’s corporation; Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; and The Walt Disney Company; "Project Kaleidoscope: A Collaborative Project to Encourage Sustained Code Compliance," Interim Report, January 2005; available at www.asyousow.org

- CAFOD, "Clean Up Your Computer: Midterm Review," available at www.cafod.org.uk/policy_and_analysis/policy_papers/private_sector

- ILRF, "Chocolate and Child Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of the Coca Industry, June 2004; available at www.laborrights.org

- Human Rights Watch, "Turning a Blind Eye: Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation," June 2004; available at hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf

- South East Asia Research Centre, "The Situation of Burmese Migrant Workers in Mae Sot, Thailand," September 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org

- Oxfam, Global Unions and the Clean Clothes Campaign, "Tae Hwa Indonesia — a case-study of labour conditions in the sportswear industry," case study on a factory producing mainly for FILA Play Far at the Olypmics, August 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org

- China Labor Watch, "Kingmaker Footwear: Timberland made in China," December 2004; available at www.chinalaborwatch.org

- Sarah Perman, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), "Behind the brand names: Working conditions and labour rights in export processing zones," December 2004; available at www.icftu.org

- National Labor Committee, Education Fund in Support of Worker and Human Rights, "Gildan Production in El Salvador," April 2004; available at www.nlcnet.org

- Workers Rights Consortium, "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re PT Panarub (Indonesia): Summary of Findings and Recommendations," September 7, 2004; available at www.workersrights.org

- ILO, "Eighth Synthesis Report on the Working Conditions Situation in Cambodia’s Garment Sector, April 2004; available at www.ilo.org

- Gap, Inc., "Social Responsibility Report," May 12, 2004; available at www.gapinc.com

- Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Unique Garments International Ltd. (Swaziland): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report," November 9, 2004; available at www.workersrights.org

- Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Lian Thai Apparel (Thailand): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report," October 1, 2004; available at www.workersrights.org

- Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Far East Garment Textile Ltd. Co. and First Apparel Ltd. Co. (Thailand): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report," February 8, 2005; available at www.workersrights.org

- National Labor Committee, "Update: Maternity Leave in Bangladesh," January 13, 2005; available at www.nlcnet.org

Codes of Conduct

- The Conference Board of Canada, "The National Corporate Social Responsibility Report: Managing Risks, Leveraging Opportunities," a report assessing the CSR management practices of a sample of 53 large Canadian companies, including their public reporting practices, June 2004; available at www.conferenceboard.ca/GCSR/

- AccountAbility and Insight Investment, "Gradient: Promoting Best-Practice Management of Supply Chain Labour Standards," April 2004; available at www.gradient-index.net

- Gap, Inc., "Social Responsibility Report," May 12, 2004; available at www.gapinc.com

- Asia Monitor Resource Centre Ltd., "A critical guide to corporate codes of conduct," 2004; available at www.amrc.org.uk

- The Economist, "The good company: a sceptical look at corporate social responsibility," January 22, 2005; available at www.economist.com

- Ray Marshall, The Economic Policy Institute, "Labor Standards Human Capital, and Economic Development," December 23, 2004; available at www.epinet.org

- Maquila Solidarity Network, "Codes Memo: Special Issue on Labour Standards Reporting," Number 17, July 2004; available at www.maquilasolidarity.org

- Mattel, "Corporate Social Responsibility Report, 2004; available at www.mattel.com/about_us/Corp_Responsibility/cr_csreport.asp

- Sabine Ferenschild and Ingeborg Wick, Clean Clothes Campaign, "Global Game for Cuffs and Collars," August 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org/pub.htm

- Oxfam, Global Unions and the Clean Clothes Campaign, "Tae Hwa Indonesia — a case-study of labour conditions in the sportswear industry," case study on a factory producing mainly for FILA Play Far at the Olypmics, August 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org/pub.htm

- Samuel Grumiau, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), "Disaster Looms with the Ending of the Quota System," November 2004; available at www.icftu.org/www/PDF/rapporttextilEOK.pdf

- Simon Zadek, Harvard Business Review, "The Path to Corporate Responsibility," December 2004; www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0412J

- William A. Douglas, John-Paul Ferguson, and Erin Klett, "An Effective Confluence of Forces in Support of Workers’ Rights: ILO Standards, US Trade Laws, Unions and NGOs," Human Rights Quarterly Issue 26 (2004), available at www.laborstandards.org

- Stephen F. Diamond, "Bridging the Divide: An Alternative Approach to International Labor Rights After the Battle of Seattle," Pepperdine Law Review, Volume 29 (2001), available at www.laborstandards.org

- Amnesty International, "The UN Human Rights Norms for Business: Towards Legal Accountability," 2004; available at www.amnesty.org

- Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID); World University Service (German committee)-Forum Menschenrechte; the International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), "Draft Framework for Inputs to OHCHR Report on Human Rights Responsibilities of Business," July 2004; available at www.escr-net.org

- Gay Seidman, "Monitoring Multinationals: Citizens, Markets, and Transnational Labor Activism," prepared for presentation at LASA 2004, Las Vegas, October 2004; available from seidman@ssc.wisc.edu

- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, "Corporate social responsibility and safety and health at work," 2004; available at agency.osha.eu.int/publications/reports/210/en/index.htm

- Asia Monitor Resource Centre, "A Critical Guide to Corporate Codes of Conduct: Voices from the South," March 2004; available at www.amrc.org.uk

- New Internationalist, "The World Guide 2003/2004," 2004; available at www.newint.org

- International Forum on Globalization, "Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible," available at www.ifg.org and www.bkconnection.com

- CAFOD, "Clean Up Your Computer," a report detailing working conditions in electronics factories in China and Mexico, January 2004; available at www.cafod.org.uk

- Fair Labor Association, "Annual Public Report," Year Two, August 2004; available at fairlabor.org

- Ethical Trading Initiative, "Putting ethics to work: Annual report 2003/2004," available at www.ethicaltrade.org

- Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers’ Rights, "Report of stakeholder consultations in Turkey," November 2004; available at www.jo-in.org

- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, "Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Regulation," UNRISD Research and Policy Brief 1, March 2004; available at www.unrisd.org

Globalization issues

- Daniel W. Drezner, "Globalization Without Riots," The New York Times, April 18, 2004; available at nytimes.com

- World Bank, "A Better Investment Climate for Everyone," annual World Development Report, 2005; available at www.worldbank.org

- Raquel Partida, "Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global High Technology Industry," Labor Rights and Healthy Conditions in the Workers Electronics Industry in Jalisco, Mexico, February 2005; available from Raquel Partida at raqueludg@hotmail.com

- "Garment Industry Subcontracting and Workers Rights: Report of Women Working Worldwide Action Research in Asia and Europe 2003;" available at www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/Garment%Report-www.pdf

- Rafael Barajas Duran, "How to Succeed at Globalization: A Primer for the Roadside Vendor," Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, July 1, 2004; available at www.henryholt.com/metropolitanbooks.htm

- Ethical Trading Initiative, "Roundtable report on purchasing practices," June 2004; available at www.ethicaltrade.org/

- Annie Delaney, "Campaigns at Work: A guide to campaigning for omeworker organisations, unions, campaign groups and activists," HomeWorkers Worldwide, 2004; available at www.homeworkersww.org.uk/resources.htm and from info@homeworkers.org.uk

- Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Lian Thai Apparel (Thailand): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report," October 1, 2004; available at www.workersrights.org/Lian_Thai_Report.pdf and from WRC at wrc@workersrights.org

- Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, "Chinese Labour and the WTO," June 2004; available from HKTCU at hkctu@hkctu.org.hk

- Margaret McMillan, Selina Pandolfi, B. Lynn Salinger, "Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in Labor-Intensive, Manufacturing Exports in Developing Countries," July 1999; available at www.caer.unsw.edu.au

- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, "The Least Developed Countries Report, 2004," 2004; available at www.unctad.org

- International Forum on Globalization, "Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible," 2nd edition, October 2004; available at www.ifg.org and www.bkconnection.com

- Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, "The Ten Worst Corporations of 2004," available at multinationalmonitor.org

- Ben Moxham, "Milking Thailand: The Thai-Australia Freetrade Agreement," Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI), Focus on Trade, Number 106, December 2004; available at focusweb.org

- Peter Rossman, "Defending a Vanishing Moratorium: GMOs and the WTO," Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI), Focus on Trade, Number 106, December 2004; available at focusweb.org

- Robert J. S. Ross, "Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops," University of Michigan Press, 2004; available from bisbeeb@umich.edu

- Ashwani Saith, "Social protection, decent work and development," International Institute for Labour Studies, 2004; available at www.ilo.org/inst

- Jill Esbenshade, "Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers, and the Global Apparel Industry," Temple University Press, available at www.temple.edu/tempress

- Lawrence Mishel, "Unfettered markets, income inequality, and religious values," 2004; available at epinet.org

- Joseph E. Brenner and Ellen R. Shaffer, "US-Australia Free Trade Agreement: Implications for Prescription Drug Prices in the US and Australia," June 22, 2004 available at www.cpath.org

- Larry Cohen, Communications Workers of America, "Impact of Outsourcing on Development: Restoring Global Balance Together," speech at World Bank Conference, June 23, 2004; available at www.cwa-union.org

- Oxfam International, "Stitched Up: how rich-country protectionism in textiles and clothing trade and clothing trade prevents poverty alleviation," April 2004; available at oxfam.org

- Neil Kearney, International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation, Remarks to Industrifacket Congress, Sweden, August 2004; available at www.itglwf.org

- Dani Rodrik, "Feasible Globalizations," Harvard University, July 2002; available from Dani Rodrik at dani_rodrik@harvard.edu

- Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrik, "Labor Day 2004: Global Trade That Works for All," United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, September 6, 2004; available at www.usccb.org/sdwp/

- Walden Bello, "Dilemmas of Domination," Henry Holt and Company, March 2005; available at www.americanempireproject.com

- actionaid international, "Power hungry: six reasons to regulate global food corporations," available at www.actionaid.org

- Ellen R. Shaffer, Howard Waitzkin, Joseph Brenner, Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar, "Global Trade and Public Health," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 95, No. 1, January 2005; available at www.ajph.org

- National Conference of State Legislatures, "Trade, the Environment, and Environmental Health," September 2004; available at www.NCSL.org

- Pratap Chatterjee, "Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation," Seven Stories Press, September 2004; available at www.corpwatch.org

- The Seattle to Brussels Network, "From Cancun to Hong Kong: Challenging corporate led trade liberalisation," October 2004; available at www.foeeurope.org and www.weed-online.org

- IRC Americas Program, Alexandra Spieldoch, "Free Trade Agreements and Women," December 17, 2004; www.americaspolicy.org

- Public Citizen, "Poorest Countries’ Standards of Living Also Decline Under Current Global Trading Regime," January 11, 2005; available at www.citizen.org

- Public Citizen, "Global Justice Activists Celebrate New Year with FTAA Talks Dead in Water and CAFTA Facing Congressional Defeat," December 21, 2004; available at www.citizen.org

- Fair Wear Foundation, "Background Study Poland," April 2004; available at www.fairwear.nl

- Fair Wear Foundation, "Background Study on Turkey: Basic information on Labor conditions and Social Auditing in the Turkish Garment Industry," July 2004; available at www.fairwear.nl

- Fair Wear Foundation, "Background Study on China," available at www.fairwear.nl

- Fair Wear Foundation, "Background Study on Macedonia," April 2004; available at www.fairwear.nl

- STITCH, "Women Behind the Labels: Worker Testimonies from Central America," September 2000; available at www.stitchonline.org/order.asp

- CPATH, "Draft Public Health Statement on the U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)," 2004; available at www.cpath.org

- Sierra Club, "When Bad Things Happen to Good Laws: How International Trade Pacts Threaten California’s Environmental Laws," September 2004; available at www.sierraclub.org/trade/california

- Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, "Globalization and the Environment: Lessons from the Americas," Heinrich Boll Foundation, July 15, 2004; available at www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/WorkingGroup.htm

- Kate Bronfenbrenner and Stephanie Luce, "The Changing Nature of Corporate Global Restructuring: The Impact of Production Shifts on Jobs in the US, China, and Around the Globe," October 14, 2004; available from Stephanie Luce at sluce@econs.umass.edu

- Lyuba Zarksy, editor, "International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards," Earthscan Publications, 2004; available at www.earthscan.co.uk

- Ron French, "Driven Abroad," The Detroit News Special Report, 2004; available at detnews.com

- IRC Americas Program, Raul Zibechi, "Privatizations: The End of a Cycle of Plundering," November 1, 2004; www.americaspolicy.org

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October 2003 — April 2004

United States

"The Decline of U.S. Labor Unions and the Role of Trade"; Baldwin, Robert E.; Institute for International Economics; Globalization Balance Sheet Series; May 2003

"Awakening Monster: The Alien Tort Statute of 1789"; Hufbauer, Gary Clyde and Nicholas K. Mitrokostas; Policy Analyses in International Economics, July 2003, No 7

"Triangle: The Fire that Chased America"; VonDrehle, David; Atlantic Monthly Press; September 2003

"Shafted: Free Trade and America’s Working Poor"; Ahn, Christine, Ed.; Food First — Institute for Food and Development Policy

"Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Dismantling of Democracy"; Nace, Ted; Summer 2003

"The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003"; Information Office of the State; Council of the People’s Republic of China; March 1, 2004

"Everyday Low Wages: The Hidden Price We All Pay For Wal-Mart"; Committee on Education and the Workforce; Representative George Miller (D-CA), Senior Democrat; February 16, 2004

"Americans on Globalization, Trade, and Farm Subsidies"; Kull, Steven, Principal Investigator; The PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll; January 22, 2004

"Mending Manufacturing: Reversing Poor Policy Decisions is the Only Way to End Crisis"; Bivens, Josh, with Robert Scott and Christian Weller; Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper, January 2004

"The High Price of ‘Free Trade’: NAFTA’s Failure has Cost the United States Jobs Across the Nation"; Scott, Robert E.; Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper, November 17, 2003, No. 147

"When Workers Die: A Trench Caves In; A Young Worker Is Dead. Is It A Crime?" Barstow, David; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, December 21, 2003

"When Workers Die: U.S. Rarely Seeks Charges for Deaths in the Workplace"; Barstow, David; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, December 22, 2003

"When Workers Die: California Leads in Making Employer Pay for Job Deaths"; Barstow, David; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, December 23, 2003

Mexico

"Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy"; Preston, Julia and Samuel Dillon Farrar, Straus & Giroux; March 28, 2004

"The Jobs That Lure Mexican Workers to the United States are Killing"; Pritchard, Justin, Associated Press; Star Telegram, www.startelegram.com, Saturday, March 13, 2004

"Work and Health in Export Industries at National Borders"; Denman, Catalina A. with Leonor Cedillo and Sioban D. Harlow; Global Inequalities at Work: Work’s Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families, and Societies. Heymann, Jody, Ed.; Oxford University Press 2003

"U.S. Economic Recovery Begins to Trickle Into Mexico"; Malkin, Elisabeth; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, February 18, 2004.

"Farm Groups Reject Mexico Talks Proposal"; Associated Press; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com , January 27, 2003

"Free Trade Accord at 10: Growing Pains are Clear"; Weiner, Tim; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, December 27, 2003

"Workers at U.S. Plants in Mexico Seek Rights"; Ferriss, Susan; Arizona Republic, November 30, 2003

"Report Finds Few Benefits for Mexico in NAFTA"; Dugger, Celia W.; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, November 19, 2003

"Trade Brings Riches, But Not to Mexico’s Poor: NAFTA’s Critics Say Pact Has to Improve Lives of Impoverished Majority"; Jordan, Mary and Kevin Sullivan; Washington Post Foreign Service , March 22, 2003

"Mexico’s Forgotten Disappeared: The Victims of the Border Narco Bloodbath (Part I)" Getty, Mark; Frontera Norte Sur, March 3, 2004

"Mexico’s Forgotten Disappeared: The Victims of the Border Narco Bloodbath (Part II)" Getty, Mark; Frontera Norte Sur, March 4, 2004

"Mexico: Prisoners of Conscience — Indigenous Environmental Activists"; Baldenegro Lopez, Isidro and Hermegildo Rivas Carrillo; Amnesty International, December 2003

"The Politics of North American Economic Integration"; Fox, Jonathan; Latin American Research Review, Vol 39, No 1, February 2004

"The Women of Monclova"; Howard, Alan; Z Magazine, February 2004

"North or South, Benefits of NAFTA Add Up to Nada"; Bacon, David; Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2003

"The Maquiladora: A Changing Industry"; Banamex, December 2003, No 936 ; Pp 499 — 503

Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos; directed by Saul Landau and Sonia Angulo; 2000

Cross-Border Dialogues: U.S. Mexico Social Movement Networking; Brooks, David and Fox, Jonathan, eds.; La Jolla, Calif.: Center for U.S. Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego, 2002

"La Globalización en la Encrucijada: La Frontera San Diego/Tijuana después de Diez Años del TLCAN"; Environmental Health Coalition (Coalición de Salud Ambiental); Enero de 2004

"Evolución del empleo fronterizo en los noventas: Efectos del TLCAN y de la devaluación sobre la estructura ocupacional"; Coubès, Marie-Laure; El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Frontera Norte 30 Vol. XV, Julio-Deciembre 2003

 

China

"China’s Workers — and Ours"; Meyerson, Harold; Washington Post, March 17, 2004; p. A25

"China’s Growing Pains"; Becker, Jasper; National Geographic, March 2004; pp. 68-95

"The self-made ride stitches to riches"; Marquand, Robert; The Christian Science Monitor, January 22, 2004

"China’s peasants opt for urban grindstone"; Marquand, Robert;; The Christian Science Monitor, January 23, 2004

"Workplace Deaths Rise in China Despite New Safety Regulation"; Kahn, Joseph; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, October 24, 2003

"The World — Losing Ground;China’s Leaders Manage Class Conflict Carefully"; Kahn, Joseph; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, January 25, 2004; Section 4, p.5,Clmn. 1

"Chinese Workers Pay for Wal-Mart’s Low Prices"; Goodman, Peter S. and Pan, Philip P.; Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com, February 8, 2004, p.A01

"China’s Wealthy Live by a Creed: Hobbes and Darwin, Meet Marx"; Zhao, Yilu; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, February 29, 2004

"Women in China: Throwaway Workers"; Various; China Labour E-Bulletin, www.china-labour.org.hk, March 7, 2004

"AFL-CIO Goes After China on Labor: Petition Asks U.S. To Press for Deal On Workers Rights"; Crenshaw, Albert B.; Washington Post, www.washingtonpost.com, March 17, 2004; p.E02

"A.F.L.-C.I.O. to Press Bush for Penalties Against China"; Greenhouse, Steven and Becker, Elizabeth; The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, March16, 2004

"In China, gold rush wreaks toxic death"; Epstein, Gady A.; Sun Foreign Staff; www.sunspot.net, September 14, 2003

"The Liaoyang protest movement of 2002-2003, and the Arrest, Trial and Sentencing of the "Liaoyang Two""; Leung, Trini, adapted by CLB; China Labour Bulletin, July 2003

"Workplace Codes of Conduct in China and Related Labor Conditions"; Lum, Thomas Report for Congress, April 23, 2003

"World Focus"; Borden, Jennifer, ed.; American Society of Safety Engineers; www.asse.org; International Practice Specialty Newsletter, Fall 2002; Vol.2, No.1

"Raising Labor Standards, Corporate Social Responsibility and Missing Links — Vietnam and China Compared"; Chan, Anita and Wang, Hong-zen; Paper presented at conference "The Labor of Reform: Employment, Workers’ Rights, and Labor Law in China"; University of Michigan, March 21-22, 2003

"China’s economic boom hits home"; Schmid, John and Romell, Rick; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 27, 2003

"China turns the tables"; Schmid, John and Romell, Rick; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 28, 2003

"U.S. losing its connection"; Schmid, John and Romell, Rick; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 29, 2003

"China engineers its next great leap"; Schmid, John; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 30, 2003

"Out of work, seeking new land of opportunity"; Romell, Rick; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 27, 2003

"His code is ‘Buy American’ — but even he shopped in China"; Romell, Rick; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec.27, 2003

"Same bed, different dreams: With U.S. reliant on Chinese lending, two economies deeply linked"; Schmid, John; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 28, 2003

"Fishing villages to world-class port — in 10 years"; Schmid, John; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 29, 2003

"China puts firms across state in squeeze: Business owners must adjust to new competition or face closing their doors"; Romell, Rick; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec.29, 2003

"American drive to buy for less has a price"; Schmid, John; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 30, 2003

"In New Berlin, a glimpse of the knowledge economy: Firm plans to make tools in China but add engineers at the home office"; Romell, Rick; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec.30, 2003

"Hutong is home, but for how long?"; From the Journal Sentinel; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 30, 2003

"Editorial: The challenge from China"; From the Journal Sentinel; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com, Dec. 30, 2003

"Challenges in China: Experiences from Two CCC Pilot Projects on Monitoring and Verification of Code Compliance"; Ascoly, Nina and Zeldenrust, Ineke; SOMO, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, www.somo.nl, October 2003

"Labour Standards in China, The Business and Investment Challenge"; Frost, Stephen; Executive Summary, ASrIA, Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia

"Urban Poverty in China: Measurement, Patterns and Policies"; Hussain, Athar; International Labour Office, Geneva, www.ilo.org, January 2003

"Congressional-Executive Commission on China: Annual Report"; Congressional-Executive Commission on China, www.cecc.gov; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington: 2003

 

Occupational Health & Safety

"Workplace Health and Safety Worker Training Materials: An Electronic Multilingual Resource List"; Labor Occupational Health Program; Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California at Berkeley; for the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation; www.dir.ca.gov/CHSWC/MultilingualResourceSiteZfromLOHP.pdf

Trade Unions and Technical Standards (TUBS); www.etuc.org/tutb/uk/technicalstandards.html

"Compendium of Activities of the WHO Collaborating Centres in Occupational Health" Network of Collaborating Centres Work Plan 2001-2005; World Health Organizations, www.who.into/oeh, June 2003

"Occupational Safety and Health in a Neoliberal World"; Mogensen, Vernon, ed.; Working U.S.A.: The Journal of Labor and Society, Vol.7, No. 2, Fall 2003

"Harmonizing chemical classifications across the globe"; IPCS INTOX Programme, www.intox.org; Spanish: www.intox.org/firstpage.htm; Issue Four, Volume 1, April 2003

"Recurso Nacional Canadiense de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional"; Centro Canadiense de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety), www.ccsso.ca

"Safety is Seguridad: A Workshop Summary"; Committee on Communicating Occupational Safety and Health Information to Spanish-speaking Workers; Committee on Earth Resources, National Research Council; The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., www.nap.edu, 2003

"Workers’ Education in the 21st Century: Asia Pacific Workers’ Education Practitioners Exchange"; Asia Monitor Resource Centre, www.amrc.org.hk, September 2003

"Benzene Exposure Measurement in Shoe and Glue Manufacturing: A Study to Validate Biomarkers"; Qu, Qingshan; Cohen, Beverly S.; Shore, Roy; Chen, Lung Chi; Li, Guilan; Jin, Ximei; Melikian, Assieh A.; Yin, Songnian; Yan, Huifang; Xu, Bohong; Li, Yuying; Mu, Ruidong; Zhang, Xiaoling; Li, Kei

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, Volume 18, Number 12, December 2003

"SafeWork: Thirteenth Session of the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health"; International Labour Organization; Geneva, 9-12 December 2003

"ILO standards-related activities in the area of occupational safety and health: An in-depth study for discussion with a view to the elaboration of a plan of action for such activities"; International Labour Conference, 91st Session 2003; Report VI; International Labour Office, Geneva

"Thirteenth Session of the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health"; Review of Occupational Safety and Health Activities of the ILO; Information document, International Labour Office, Geneva, 9-12 December 2003

Syllabus: "Community Development for Local Capacity Building (GS323)"; Online Education, University of Connecticut, www.sp.uconn.edu/~ccsde/welc/gs323.html

"Safety in numbers: Pointers for global safety culture at work"; International Labour Organization; International Labour Office, Geneva, 2003; www.ilo.org/publns

ILO Publications Center; P.O. Box 753, Box EM4, Waldorf, MD, 20604-0753 USA; Tel: (301) 638-3152; Fax: (301) 843-0159; Email: ilopubs@tasco1.org

"Proving roving safety reps work"; Trade Union Congress; www.tuc.org.uk/h, April 2003

"Revised Classification System for Radiographs of Pneumoconioses"; International Labor Office, 1828 L Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington DC 20036

"The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals"; UNECE; United Nations, 2003

Reports from workplaces around the world

"Vietnam Update: Labor & CSR News"; Global Standards, June 17, 2003, Vol 8

"Annual Report on Indonesian Labor Update"; LIPS and Akatiga; March 2003

"Garment and Textile Production: Turkey"; SOMO and Clean Clothes ; www.somo.nl; www.cleanclothes.org; SOMO Bulletin on Issues in Garments and Textiles, November 2003, No 3

"Cambodia: Textile Workers Face a Gloomy Future"; International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (IFCTU); Trade Union World Briefing, January 2004, No 1

"Maquila en Nicaragua…Una Esperanza?: Conflictividad laboral en la maquila: Un analisis desde la practica de los de los derechos humanos"; Orozco, Patricia A., Ed.; Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Centro Nicaraguense de Derechos Humanos, CENIDH; www.cenidh.org; November 24, 2003

"Deliberate Indifference: El Salvador’s Failure to Protect Worker’s Rights"; Human Rights Watch, December 2003, Vol 15, No 5(B)

"Seventh Synthesis Report on the Working Conditions Situation in Cambodia’s Garment Sector"; ILO; October 2003

"Servitude in American Samoa" (First of five parts); Wong, Brad; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 17, 2003

"The U.S. Has Had Its Share of Sweatshops: New York, Los Angeles are the Leading Offenders, but Even Seattle Had Its Problems" (Part 2 of 5); Wong, Brad; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 18, 2003

"The U.S. Acted Too Slowly, Some Say: Some Say Delay Gave Vietnam Time to Pressure Workers" (Part 3 of 5); Wong, Brad; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 19, 2003

"Local Firms Monitor Overseas Factories: Some Do Audits and Inspections, but Labor Activists Want More" (Part 4 of 5); Frey, Christine; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 20, 2003

"Acts of kindness Showered on Sweatshop Workers" (Part 5 of 5); Wong, Brad; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 21, 2003

"Garment Industry Subcontracting and Worker’s Rights: Reports of Women Working Worldwide Action Research in Asia and Europe 2003"; Hurley, Jennifer, Ed.; Women Working Worldwide; 2003

"East and Southeast Asia Regional Labor Research Report"; Ascoly, Nina, and Ineke Zeldenrust; Novib; December 2003

"Garment Industry in Morocco"; Clean Clothes Campaign; 2003

"Garment Production in Malawi"; SOMO and Worker’s College

"Tehuacan: Blue Jeans, Blue Waters and Worker Rights"; Maquila Solidarity Network and Human and Labor Rights Commission of the Tehuacan Valley; February 2003

"A Canadian Success Story? Gildan Activewear: T-Shirts, Free Trade and Worker Rights; Maquila Solidarity Network and the Honduran Independent Monitoring Team; May 2003

"New Reports on the Bangladesh Garment Industry"; The Workers Rights Program of the LCHR (Lawyers Committee on Human Rights); www.lchr.org/workers_rights/wr_other/Bangladesh_Report.pdf; www.etiskhandel.no; 2003

Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network; training materials, www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/jakarta/publ/actrav.htm; 2003

Worker Rights Consortium Report on EPZ, Indonesia; The Worker Rights Consortium; 2003

FWF Study on Turkey; The Fair Wear Foundation (FWF); www.fairwear.nl/engelsframe1.htm

 

Codes of Conduct

ETI; 2003 annual report, www.ethicaltrade.org/Z/lib/annrep/2003/en/eti-annrep02-03.pdf

UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute on Sustainable Development); November conference, www.unrisd.org/unpublished_/tbs_/confsum/content.htm

The World Bank; CSR issues, report; www.worldbank.org/privatesector/csr/doc/Strengthening%20Implementation.pd

The World Bank; Multistakeholder codes, report; www.worldbank.org/privatesector/csr/doc/Company%20Codes%20of%20Conduct.pdf

"Considering Complaint Mechanisms: An Important Tool for Code Monitoring and Verification"; Ascoly, Nina and Zeldenrust, Ineke; www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/03-12complaints_paper.pdf; www.cleanclothes.org/codes/03-10-somo-complaints-workshop.htm;October 2003

"Monitoring and Verification Terminology Guide for the garments and sportswear industries"; SOMO; August 2003 www.somo.nl/somo_ned/publicaties/Monitoring%20&%20Verification%20duTerm%20guide.pdf

"WTO ignoring workers’ rights in a race to the bottom"; International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU); www.ictfu.org; January 9, 2003

"Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises with Regard to human Rights, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/12/Rev.2 (2003); University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, 2003

"Report on the Garment industry in Malawi"; SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, the Netherlands) and the Workers College (Durban, South Africa); www.cleanclothes.org/publications/03-09-malawi.htm; www.somo.nl/somo_ned/nieuws/Garment%20production%20in%20malawi.pdf

"New MSN Policy Paper on the Textile Labelling Act inn Canada"; The Maquila Solidarity Network; www.ppforum.ca/textile_labelling/submissions_e.htm

"FLA Releases First Annual Report"; Fair Labor Association (FLA); www.fairlabor.org/all/transparency; June 4, 2003

Workers’ Rights for the New Century; Asia Pacific Labour Law Review; Asia Monitor Resource Centre, www.amrc.org.hk; April 2003

"Transparency and Disclosure: A new policy brief"; Maquila Solidarity Network/Ethical Trading Action Group; www.maquilasolidarity.org\; www.ppforum.ca/textile_labelling/submissions_e.htm

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; www.business-humanrights.org

Ethical Globalization Initiative; www.eginitiative.org

"Rights Make Might: Ensuring workers’ rights as a strategy for economic growth; Bivens, Josh and Weller, Christian; Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Issue Brief #192; www.epinet.org; April 9, 2003

"Saipan Sweatshop Lawsuit Ends with Important Gains for Workers and Lessons for Activists"; Bas, Nikki F., Sweatshop Watch; Benjamin, Medea, Global Exchange; Chang, Joannie, Asian Law Caucus; www.sweatshopwatch.org; January 8, 2004

"Time for Equality at Work: Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work"; International Labour Conference, 91st Session 2003, Report I (B); Report of the Director-General, International Labour Office, Geneva, www.ilo.org/declaration, 2003

"The Role Global Labor Standards Could Play in Addressing Basic Needs"; Elliott, Kimberly Ann, and Freeman, Richard B.; Global Inequalities at Work: Work’s Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families, and Societies. Heymann, Jody, M.D., Ph.D., Oxford University Press, 2003

"Opportunities for Improving Working Conditions through International Agreements"; Pursey, Stephen; Baichoo. Pavan, and Takala, Jukka; Global Inequalities at Work: Work’s Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families, and Societies. Heymann, Jody, M.D., Ph.D., ed.; Oxford University Press, 2003

"Report of SOMO Workshop on Complaint Mechanisms in the Context of Monitoring and Verification of Codes of Conduct"; Clean Clothes Campaign,; www.cleanclothes.org; Amsterdam, October 17th 2003

"Considering Complaint Mechanisms: An Important Tool for Code Monitoring and Verification; Ascoly, Nina and Zeldenrust, Ineke; SOMO, December 2003

"Corporate social responsibility: Myth or reality?"; Labour Education 2003/1, No. 130; International Labour Organization (ILO); www.ilo.org; 2003

"Balancing Globalization with Social Responsibility: Perspectives on Work Security, Health, and Environment in the Global Economy"; Diether, John W., ed. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. Volume 13, No. 1, 2003

"Fundamental principles and rights at work: A labour law study (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua)"; International Labour Organization, International Labour Office, Geneva, 2003

"Transparency and Disclosure: New Regulatory Tools to Challenge Sweatshop Abuses"; Ethical Trading Action Group; Submission to Public Policy Forum’s National Consultation on Textile Labelling; www.maquilasolidarity.org; September 30, 2003

"International Standards and Voluntary Monitoring: The International Labor Organization’s (ILO’s) Garment Sector Project in Bangladesh; Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights; www.lchr.org; September 2003

"Labor Standards and the Free Trade Area of the Americas"; Elliott, Kimberly Ann; Institute for International Economics, August 2003

Monitoring International Labor Standards: Summary of Domestic Forums. McElrath, Roger, ed.; National Research Council of the National Academies , www.national-academies.org; The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., www.nap.edu; 2003

"Corporate Social Responsibility and Development: Towards a New Agenda?" Summaries of Presentations, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference, Salle XVI, Palais des Nations, Geneva; 17 November 1003-18 November 2003; www.unrisd.org

"Harnessing Difference"; Ethical Training Initiative (ETI); www.ethicaltrade.org; Annual report 2002/2003

"Strengthening Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains"; Jørgensen, Helle Bank; Pruzan-Jørgensen, Peder Michael (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Denmark); Jungk, Margaret (Danish Institute for Human Rights); Cramer, Aron (Business for Social Responsibility); The World Bank Group, Corporate Social Responsibility Practice; October 2003

"Key Challenges in Ethical Trade"; Report On the ETI Biennial Conference 2003; Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), www.ethicaltrade.org; ETI Reports 2003

"Promoting International Worker Rights Thought Private Voluntary Initiatives: Public Relations or Public Policy?"; Schrage, Elliot J.; UI Center for Human Rights,www.uichr.org; A Report to the U.S. Department of State on Behalf of The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights; January 2003

Setting Global Standards: Guidelines for Creating Codes of Conduct in Multinational Corporations. Sethi, Prakish S.

Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy. Jenkins, Rhys Owen (Editor), et al.

Information on Phase Out of Multi-Fiber Arrangement; Codes Memo of the Maquila Solidarity Network; www.maquilasolidarity.org; September 2003

"The Rights of Workers in Garment Industry Subcontracting Chians"; Women Working Worldwide (WWW); www.women-ww.org; 2003

"Women Working in the Informal Sector in Sri Lanka"; TIE-Asia and Women Working Worldwide (WWW); www.cleanclothes.org/publications/03-06-08.htm; www.tieasia.org/NEWSsection.htm; 2003

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO); bi-monthly publication; www.somo.nl; 2003

Globalization Issues

"Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Twist? The Impact of the Bush Doctrine on Canada" Clarkson, Stephen and Banda, Maria; Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), www.fpif.org, March 2004

"The Phase-Out of the Multifiber Arrangement"; Clean Clothes Campaign; SOMO, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, www.somo.nl ; SOMO Bulletin on Issues in Garments & Textiles, www.cleanclothes.org, Number 5, April 2004

"Trade and Investment Agreements"; Clean Clothes Campaign; SOMO, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, www.somo.nl; SOMO Bulletin on Issues in Garments & Textiles, www.cleanclothes.org, Number 4, February 2004

"Garment and Textile Production: Focus on Turkey"; Clean Clothes Campaign; SOMO, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, www.somo.nl ; SOMO Bulletin on Issues in Garments & Textiles, www.cleanclothes.org, Number 3, November 2003

"Pricing in the Global Garment Industry"; Clean Clothes Campaign; SOMO, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, www.somo.nl ; SOMO Bulletin on Issues in Garments & Textiles, www.cleanclothes.org, Number 1, May 2003

"Trading Away Our Rights: Women working in global supply chains"; Make Trade Fair, www.maketradefair.com; Oxfam International, 2004

Free Trade Area of the Americas: Demystifying the Corporate Jargon; The Alliance for Global Justice, Washington, D.C.

Children of NAFTA; Bacon, David; www.ucpress.edu

"Kicking Away the Ladder: The "Real" History of Free Trade"; Chang, Ha-Joon; Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), www.fpif.org, December 2003

"FTAA for Beginners Workshop"; United for a Fair Economy (UFE), www.Faireconomy.org, July 2003

Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry; Collins, Jane L.; University of Chicago Press, www.press.uchicago.edu, 2003

"Free Trade in the New Global Economy: A Discussion on the State of the U.S. Trade Policy"; Transcript. Panelists: Lael Brainard, Paul Craig Roberts, Thomas J. Donohue, Sen. Charles E. Schumer. Moderator: Ron Nessen; The Brookings Institution; www.brookings.edu, January 7, 2004

"Working Out of Poverty"; Somavia, Juan; International Labour Office, Geneva, www.ilo.org, April 2003

"Free Trade’s Looming Threat to the World’s Garment Workers"; Foo, Lora Jo and Bas, Nikki Fortunato; Sweatshop Watch, www.sweatshopwatch.org, October 30, 2003

Effective Strategies in Confronting Transnational Corporations; Choudry, Abdul Aziz, ed.; Asia-Pacific Research Network (APRN), www.aprnet.org, 2003

"Assessing the Impact of the Phasing-out of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing on Apparel Exports From Developing Countries"; Appelbaum, Richard P.; Center for Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003

"Another Lost Decade? Latin America’s Growth Failure Continues Into the 21st Century"; Weisbrot, Mark and Rosnick, David; Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), www.cepr.net, November 13, 2003

"Political and Moral Implications of Global Capital Mobility"; Faux, Jeff; Economic Policy Institute, www.epinet.org, November 6, 2003

"After Cancun: Possibilities for a New North — South Grand Bargain on Trade"; Palley, Thomas I.; Open Society Institute, November 2003

"Labor market protections and Unemployment: Does the IMF Have a Case? Baker, Dean and Schmitt, John; Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), www.cepr.net, November 12, 2003

"An evaluation of ‘Unemployment and labour market institutions: why reforms pay off’, Chapter IV IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2003"; Watt, Andrew; European Trade Union Institute, November 2003

"Wearing Thin"; Labour Behind the Label, www.labourbehindthelabel.org

"Labour Partnership for the Future of APEC: ICTFY/APLN Statement to the 2003 APEC Leaders’ Meeting"; International Confederation of Free Trade Unions/Asia Pacific Labour Network (ICTFU/APLN), www.icftu-apro.org, 2003

Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power; Danaher, Kevin and Mark, Jason; Global Exchange, www.globalexchange.org, October 2003

"ICTFU offers to assist World Bank’s IFC to activate labour standards proposal" International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU), ICTFU Online, www.ictfu.org September 26, 2003

Imagine There’s No Country: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization; Bhalla, Surjit; Institute for International Economics, October 2002

"Too Sunny in Latin America? The IMF’s Overly Optimistic Growth Projections and Their Consequences"; Baker, Dean and Rosnick, David; Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), www.cepr.net, September 16, 2003

Rights Make Might: Ensuring workers’ rights as a strategy for economic growth"; Bivens, Josh and Weller; ChristianEconomic Policy Institute, EPI Issue Brief, #192, April 9, 2003

Global Inequalities at Work: Work’s Impact on the Health of Individuals, Families and Societies; Heymann, Jody, ed.; Oxford University Press, www.oup-usa.org

Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity Pollin, Robert; Verso, 2003

International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade, and Public Policy; Flanagan, Robert J. and Gould, William B., ed.; Stanford University Press, www.stanford.edu, 2003

Global Workplace Bibliography; TUC, www.tuc.org.uk, 2003

"Economic Exploitation and the Health of Children: Towards a Rights-Oriented Public Health Approach"; Parker, David L. and Bachman, Sarah; President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2001

"Why the WTO Is Going Nowhere"; Greider, William; September 22, 2003

"Challenging Trade Liberalization in the Americas"; Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC); Citizen Action in the Americas, www.americaspolicy.org , No.8, September 2003

"Export Processing Zones — Symbols of Exploitation and a Development Dead-End"; International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU);www.ictfu.org, September 2003

Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization?; Elliot, Kimberly Ann and Freeman, Richard B.; Institute for International Economics, June 2003

Responses to Globalization in the U.S. Textile and Apparel Industries; Levinsohn, James; Institute for International Economics, 2003

"Globalization with Few Discontents?"; Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; YaleGlobal Online

"Free Trade Area of the Americas: Negotiations Progress, but Successful Ministerial; Hinges on Intensified U.S. Preparations";United States General Accounting Office (GAO); Report to the Chairman, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, and to the Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, www.gao.gov, April 2003

"Argentina’s IMF Agreement: A Squandered Opportunity"; Cibils, Alan and Farmelo, Martha; Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC),www.americaspolicy.org, May 2003

"Recommendations from the Sixth SEATINI Workshop For Trade Officials of Southern and Eastern Africa"; Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI); Impala Hotel, Arusha, Tanzania, 2-5 April 2003

Workers’ Rights for the New Century; Asia Pacific Labour Law Review; Asia Monitor Resource Centre, www.amrc.org.hk, April 2003

"When Rivers Flow Upstream: International Capital Movements in the Era of Globalization"; Morrissey, Monique and Baker, Dean; Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Issue Brief, March 22, 2003

"The Economics of Empire: Notes on the Washington Consensus"; Finnegan, William; Harper’s Magazine, May 2003

"Latin Sweatshops Pressed by U.S. Campus Power"; Gonzalez, David; The New York Times, April 4, 2003

"Whither the WTO?: A Progress Report on the Doha Round"; Sally, Razeen; Center for Trade Policy Studies, Trade Policy Analysis No.23, March 3, 2003

"Is Your Job Next?"; Engardio, Pete, Bernstein, Aaron, and Kripalani, Manjeet; BusinessWeek, February 3, 2003

"Feasible Globalizations"; Rodrik, Dani; Harvard University, July 2002

"The Economic Effects of Unions in Latin America: Draft"; Kuhn, P. and Marquez, G., ed.

"Derechos laborales y enterno macroeconomico en America Latina"; Salas; Reporte preliminar, September 2003

"Pull factors in International Migration of Health Professionals"; Meeus, Wilma, and Sanders, David; School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, 2003

 

CAFTA

"Central American Deal Ignites a Trade Debate"; Becker, Elizabeth; The New York Times; www.nytimes.com ; April 6, 2004

"Central American trade pact may limit access to generics: Critics say agreement puts profits ahead of public health"; Replogle, Jill; The Lancet. www.thelancet.com; Vol.363, May 15, 2004

"Fool’s Gold: Projections of the U.S. Import Market"; Baker, Dean, and Weisbrot, Mark; Center for Economic and Policy and Research (CEPR); www.cepr.net; January 8, 2004

"La competividad de la industria maquiladora de exportación en Honduras: condiciones y retos ante el CAFTA"; Peters, Enrique Dussel; www.cepal.org.mx; http://dusselpeters.com

California Coalition for Fair Trade and Human Rights; cacoalition@citizenstrade.org, Oakland, CA; (510) 663-0888;

"CAFTA Not Likely to Do Better Than NAFTA"; Weisbrot, Mark; Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), www.cepr.net; Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services — December 18, 2003; Chicago Tribune — Dec. 19, 2003

"Central American Migrants take Action on Trade and Regional Integration"; Chacón, Oscar; Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center, www.americaspolicy.org; July 13, 2003

"How CAFTA Will Undermine Access to Essential Medicines"; Weissman, Robert; Essential Action, www.essentialaction.org; March 2004

"CAFTA: Few Benefits, Many Costs"; McElhinny, Vincent; Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center, www.americaspolicy.org; Americas Program Policy Brief; January 29. 2004

"U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement: Leaping Without Looking?"; McElhinny, Vincent; Americas Program at IRC, www.americaspolicy.org; January 17, 2003

"CAFTA’S Weak Labor Rights Protections: Why the Present Accord Should be Opposed"; Human Rights Watch; A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, March 2004

"Labor Rights Protections in CAFTA"; Human Rights Watch; A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper; October 2003

"CAFTA: Free Trade vs. Democracy"; Engler, Mark; Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center, www.americaspolicy.org; January 30, 2003

"Labor Standards, Development, and CAFTA"; Elliott, Kimberly Ann; Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development, www.cgdev.org; International Economics Policy Briefs; Number PB04-2; March 2004

"Draft Public Health Statement on the U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)"; CPATH Draft Statement on CAFTA; www.cpath.org ; March, 2004

"Free Trade with Central America: Summary of the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement"; Office of the United States Trade Representative; www.ustr.gov; Trade Facts, December 17, 2003

Quest for Peace; P.O. Box 5206, Hyattsville, Maryland www.quixote.org; (301) 699-0042

"Central American Free Trade Agreement: Draft Texts (English)"; Office of the United States Trade Representative, www.ustr.gov

"Central American Deal Ignites a Trade Debate"; Becker, Elizabeth; The New York Times; www.nytimes.com; April 6, 2004

Office of the United States Trade Representative, "Trade-Facts", Dominican Republic FTA Texts: www.ustr.gov/new/fta/Dr/texts.htm ; General text of the CAFTA: www.ustr.gov/new/fta/Cafta/text/index.htm ; April, 2004

"A Step Toward CAFTA: The Dominican Republic could join the trade agreement with the United States"; Latinamerica Press; No. 3, February 11, 2004

"ITC Begins Assessment of U.S. Free Trade Agreement with Central America, Dominican Republic"; State News Service; U.S. International Trade Commission press release, www.usitc.gov; March 17, 2004

Major Reports

"Globalisation: A Positive Force or Source of World’s Woes?"; Capdevilla, Gustavo; InterPress Service News Agency (IPS); February 21, 2004

World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, report; February 2004

"2003 Year end review: Emerging trends in codes and their implementation"; Maquila Solidarity Network; www.maquilasolidarity.org; Number 16, January/ February 2004

"Trading Away Our Rights — Women Working in Global Supply Chains"; Oxfam International, www.oxfam.org; February 8, 2004

"Unfair Trade…Mexico’s Agriculture Crisis: How Free Trade, the United States and Transnational Corporations Made it Happen"; Public Citizen and the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE); www.citizen.org/cmep; Washington, D.C., November 2003

"Report of SOMO Workshop on Complaint Mechanisms in the Context of Monitoring and Verification of Codes of Conduct"; Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO); Amsterdam, October 17, 2003

"Considering Complaint Mechanisms: An Important Tool for Code Monitoring and Verification"; Ascoly, Nina and Zeldenrust, Ineke; SOMO December 2003

"Globalization & the Apparel Industry: Analysis, Studies & Reports; Sweatshop Watch; www.sweatshopwatch.org; October 28, 2003

"Play Fair at the Olympics: Respect Workers’ Rights in the Sportswear Industry"; Oxfam GB, Clean Clothes Campaign and ICTFU; www.fairolympics.org; 2004

"A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All"; The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization; 2003

"Challenges in China: Experiences from Two CCC Pilot Projects on Monitoring and Verification of Code Compliance"; Ascoly, Nina and Zeldenrust, Ineke; Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO); October 2003

"Global Inequalities at Work: Work’s Impact on the Health of Indviduals, Famililes, and Societies"; Heymann, Jody, ed.; 2003

"Clean Up Your Computer: Working Conditions in the Electronics Sector"; Astill, Katherine, and Griffith, Matthew; CAFOD, www.cafod.org.uk; January 2004

"Executive Summary: AFL-CIO Section 301 Petition Against China"; AFL-CIO, www.aflcio.org; March, 2004

"Section 301 Petition of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations"; Barenberg, Mark; AFL-CIO, 2004

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MAJOR REPORTS ON MEXICO AND GLOBAL SWEATSHOPS

There continues to be a river of informational and analytical reports on working conditions in the world’s factories released each month. What once was a paucity of "hard information" and a surplus of "anecdotal reports" has become an almost overwhelming torrent of materials. Here is a brief list of some of the latest reports.


Mexico

-"Occupational Health in Mexico," Tania Carreon, Carlos Santos-Burgoa, Sherry Baron, Sendy Hernandez," Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, Vol. 17, No. 3, July-September 2002,

— "Manufacturing Jobs are Exiting Mexico," Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, November 5, 2002.

— "Fox to fight U.S. farm subsidies," Associated Press, October 22, 2002.

— "Mexico’s Fox urges fair practices by NAFTA members," Reuters, October 8, 2002.

— "US-Mexico border industry transforming after blow from global crisis," Julie Watson, Associated Press, September 30, 2002,

— "Free-Market Upheaval Grinds Mexico’s Middle Class," Ginger Thompson, New York Times, September 4, 2002


United States

— "Dying for the Job: Workplace Health and Safety in the United States," interview with Lisa Cullen, Multinational Monitor, Vol. 23, No. 9, September 2002.

— "Coming to a town near you: Corporate globalization and its impact on Massachusetts workers," by Nancy Della Mattera and Jennifer Gaudet, New Solutions, Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall 2002.

— "Loose Threads: After a decade of organizing, anti-sweatshop activists say it’s time they pulled together," by Dan La Botz, 2002, available at: www.americas.org.

— "The Real Cost of ‘Free’ Trade: America Jobs, America Wages," by Congressman Bernie Sanders, available at: www.bernie.house.gov.

-"WRC Assessment re Complaint against New Era Cap Co., Inc (Derby, NY), final report of Workers Rights Consortium investigation, 2002, available at: www.workersrights.org

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Mexico-Related Materials

-"Mexico’s Haves and Have-Nots: NAFTA Sharpens the Divide," by Carlos Salas, NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, January/February 2002.

— "A New Giant Sucking Sound, China is taking away Mexico’s jobs, as globalization enters a fateful new stage," by William Greider, The Nation, December 31, 2001.

— "Monterrey’s Poor Sinking in Rising Economic Tide," by Tim Weiner, New York Times, March 21, 2002.

— "Death of the Rio Grande; NAFTA growth kills border ecosystem," by Colin Woodward, on-line article at: www.tompaine.com posted on February 22, 2002.

— "Balance Sheet: Tallying Up Fox’s Environmental Record," by Talli Nauman, Americas Program analysis, March 7, 2002, available at: www.americaspolicy.org/briefs/2002/0203foxenv.html

— "What’s Holding Up the Bank?" by Talli Nauman, Americas Program feature, February 1, 2002, available at: www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2002/0202beccnadb.html

— "Waiting on a Plan,?" by Talli Nauman, Americas Program feature, February 8, 2002, available at: www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2002/0202border21.html

— "Mexico to Even Score after U.S. Approval of Tough Trucking Access Law," by Jonathan Treat, Americas Program feature, February 8, 2002, available at: www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2002/0202trucking.html

— "Predicting the Worst for Mexico and Points South in 2002, by John Ross, Americas Program commentary, February 26, 2002, available at: www.americaspolicy.org/commentary/2002/0202predictions.html

— "Killings of women in Ciudad Juarez continue, revealing depth of human rights and justice system problems in Mexico, by Kent Paterson, February 28, 2002, Americas Program investigation, available at: www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2002/0202juarez.html

— "Off the Grid: Mexico’s Free Market Extremism, and Labor’s Challenge to Privatization," by David Bacon, Multinational Monitor, January/February 2002.

— "Update: Plan Puebla-Panama Seeks to Spread NAFTA Ills South," by David McClure, Report on Guatemala, Vol. 22, No.
4, Winter 2001.

— "Free Trade Area of the Americas; NAFTA Marches South," by Claudio Katz, NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, January/February 2002.

— "Military Injustice: Mexico’s Failure to Punish Army Abuses," by Human Rights Watch, December 2001, available at: www.hrw.org

Reports from the world

-"Report on the Working Conditions of Soccer and Football Workers in Mainland China," revised edition, May 2002, by the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee, available at: www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/china.PDF

-"China: Labour unrest and the suppression of the rights to freedom of association and expression – ‘workers want to eat – workers want a job," by Amnesty International, April 2002, available at: www.amnesty.org

-"Tainted Harvest: Human Rights Watch Report on child labor and workers’ rights abuse in Ecuador’s banana fields," Human Rights Watch, April 2002, available at: www.hrw.org

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