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2008 Mexico Articles

2008 Global Factory Reports

2008 Global Development & Poverty

2008 Codes of Conduct

2008 China Factory Reports

2008 China Articles

2007 Mexico Articles

2007 Global Factory Reports

2007 Global Development & Poverty

2007 Codes of Conduct

2007 China Factory Reports

2007 China Articles

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 “3^rd 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.

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