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2009 Mexico Articles

2009 Global Factory Reports

2009 Global Development & Poverty

2009 Codes of Conduct

2009 China Factory Reports

2009 China Articles

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

2009 Mexico Articles

Amnesty International. Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the in the USA. 2009. www.globalexchange.org.

Barry, Tom. Immigrant Crackdown Joins Failed Crime and Drug Wars. Center for International Policy America’s Program. April 2009. www.globalexchange.org.

Barry, Tom. “The New Political Economy of Immigration: Since Sept. 11, 2001, immigrants have become America’s Most Wanted.” Dollars & Sense. January/February 2009.

Bensusan, Graciela. “Norms, Practices and Perceptions: Labour Enforcement in Mexico’s Garment Industry.” Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Mexico; September 2008. www.maquilasolidarity.org .

Botz, Dan La. “Solidarity: The Only Effective Labor Policy.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 1. January/February 2009.

Engardio, Pete and Smith, Geri. “Business is Standing its Ground.” Business Week. April 20, 2009.

Faux, Jeff. “So Far From God, So Close to Wall St.” The Nation. August 3/10, 2009.

Feltz, Renee. “A New Migration Policy: Producing Felons for Profit.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 41, No. 6. November/December 2008.

Guskin, Jane and Wilson, David. “A Grassroots Vision for U.S. Immigration Policy—and Beyond.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 1. January/February 2009.

Hausmann, Ricardo; Austin, Emilio Lozoya; Mia, Irene. The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009. World Economic Forum, Harvard University; 2009.

Jusidan, Clara. “Desigualdad y politica social en Mexico.” Nueva Sociedad N. 220; Marzo-Abril 2009. www.nuso.org.

Lovato, Roberto. “Building the Homeland Security State.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 41, No. 6. November/December 2008.

Maquiladora Network. “Notes About the Crisis and Unemployment in Tijuana.” February 28, 2009.

Maquila Solidarity Network. “What Can Brands Do to Support Freedom of Association in Mexico?” June 2009. www.maquilasolidarity.com.

Monsivais, Carlos. “Mexico en 2009: la crisis, el narcotrafico, la derecha medieval, el retorno del PRI feudal, la nacion globalizada.” Nueva Sociedad N. 220; Marzo-Abril 2009. www.nuso.org.

Moreno-Brid, Juan Carlos. “La economia mexicana frente a la crisis internacional.” Nueva Sociedad N. 220; Marzo-Abril 2009. www.nuso.org.

Mychalejko, Cyril. “U.S. Military Funded Mapping Project in Oaxaca.” Z Magazine. April 2009.

Nathan, Debbie. “Sending Love and Money: A Photo Essay on Mexican Migration.” New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 2. Spring 2009.

Nevins, Joseph and Dunn, Timothy. “Barricading the Border.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 41, No. 6. November/December 2008.

O’Neil, Shannon. The Real War in Mexico: How Democracy Can Defeat the Drug Cartels. Foreign Affairs. July/August 2009.

Otero, Gerardo and Pechlaner, Gabriela. “Is Biotechnology the Answer? The Evidence from NAFTA. NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 3. May/June 2009.

Peters, Enrique Dussel. “El aparato productivo mexicano: Entre la crisis global y el caos de la politica nacional.” Nueva Sociedad N. 220; Marzo-Abril 2009. www.nuso.org.

Paterson, Kent. “The Crisis Slams Mexico.” Americas Program Report; February 24, 2009. http://americas.irc-online.org/am/.

Rosen, Fred. “The Immigrants: Do the Right Thing but Keep Your Head Down.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 1. January/February 2009.

Verite. Advancing Women’s Rights and Social Responsibility: Capacity Building in Mexico. Verite Works, August 2009. www.verite.org.

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2009 Global Factory Reports

Bacon, David. “A Radical Vision for Today’s Labor Movement: The Importance of Internationalism and Civil Rights.” Monthly Review: Vol. 60, No. 9. February 2009.

Boggs, Grace Lee. “Detroit: City of Hope. Building a Sustainable Economy Out of the Ashes of Industry.” In These Times. February 2009.

Bush, Jason. “Russia’s Factories Shift Gears.” Business Week. May 18, 2009.

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. “Response to Women Exploiting Women NLC Report: Kellwood Briggs and Nicotex.” March 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Bybee, Roger. “Auto Task Force Outsources Jobs.” In These Times. July 2009.

Bybee, Roger. “Corporate America’s Counter-Stimulus Strategy: Firms Decide to Shut Profitable Plants While Spurning Buyers.” Dollars & Sense. May/June 2009.

Bybee, Roger. “Is U.S. Labor Prepared to Fight?” Z Magazine. June 2009.

Bybee, Roger. “Lessons from the Big Auto Bailout: Big Finance Counts, Labor Rights Don’t.” Z Magazine. April 2009.

Bybee, Roger. “Pulp Friction.” In These Times. January 2009.

Byrnes, Nanette. “The Factory That Refused to Die.” Business Week. August 3, 2009.

Centre for Corporate Accountability (Bangladesh). Obtaining Compensation for Workplace Death and Injury in Bangladesh. June 7, 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Centre for Corporate Accountability (Bangladesh). Workplace Deaths in the Industrial, Service and Agricultural Sectors of Bangladesh, 2008. May 17, 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO). Computer Connections; Supply Chain Policies and Practices of Seven Computer Companies. May 2009. www.somo.nl.

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and the Philippine Workers’ Assistance Center (WAC). Configuring Labour Rights; Labour Conditions in the Production of Computer Parts in the Philippines. July 2009. www.somo.nl

Citizen’s Research Collective on SEZ. The Public Price of Success; The Costs of Nokia Telecom SEZ in Chennai for the Government and Workers. June 2009. http://icrindia.org.

Claeson, Bjorn and Dirnbach, Eric. Making City Hall Sweat: Using Procurement Power for Worker Rights. New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 1. Winter 2009.

Clean Clothes Campaign. Cashing In: Giant Retailers, Purchasing Practices, and Working Conditions in the Garment Industry. 2009. www.cleanclothes.org.

The Daily Star. “Victory for Safe Jobs and the Environment: High Court Halts Deadly Shipbreaking on the Beaches of Bangladesh.” March 17, 2009. www.shipbreakingplatform.com.

De Haan, Esther and Schipper, Irene. Computer Connections: Supply Chain Policies and Practices of Seven Computer Companies. SOMO Paper. May 2009. www.soo.nl.

Feeley, Diane. “On the Road to Ruin: Bailing Out Banks, Smashing Unions.” Against the Current, 138. January/February 2009.

Feeley, Diane. “Saving Corporations, Sacrificing Workers.” Against the Current, 140. May/June 2009.

Global Action on ArcelorMittal. ArcelorMittal: Going Nowhere Slowly. May 12, 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Hazards Magazine. “Dangerous Leads.” Hazards Special Report, Summer 2009. http://www.hazards.org/lead/.

Hazards Magazine. “While You Were Sleeping.” Hazards Special Report, Summer 2009. http://www.hazards.org/lead/.

Hindery Jr., Leo and Gerard, Leo W. “Our Jobless Recovery.” The Nation. July 13, 2009.

Human Rights Watch. United Arab Emirates—“The Island of Happiness”: Exploitation of Migrant Workers on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. May2009. www.hrw.org.

International Federation for Human Rights. Childbreaking Yards: Child Labour in the Ship Recycling Industry in Bangladesh. 2009.

International Labor Rights Forum. Firestone and Violations of Core Labor Rights in Liberia. July 24, 2009. www.laborrights.org.

International Labor Rights Forum. We Live Subject to Their Orders: A Three-Province Survey of Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan’s 2008 Cotton Harvest. June 4, 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Jacobs, Ken. A Tale of Two Tiers: Dividing Workers in the Age of Neoliberalism. New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 1. Winter 2009.

Jacoby, Sanford M. “The Wreckage of U.S. Auto: Who Was Behind the Wheel?” New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 2. Spring 2009.

Kernaghan, Charles. Is a Bargain on a Pair of Jeans Worth a Young Woman’s Life? President Obama Thinks Not. The National Labor Committee. May 14, 2009. www.nlcnet.org.

Kernaghan, Charles. U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement Stumbles: Human Trafficking, Abuse, Forced Overtime, Primitive Dorm Conditions, Imprisonment and Forcible Deportations of Foreign Guest Workers At the Muse Factory in Jordan. The National Labor Committee. July 24, 2009. www.nlcnet.org.

makeITfair. Out of Control—E-waste Trade Flows From the EU to Developing Countries. April 17, 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Maquila Solidarity Network. How will the global financial crisis affect
the garment industry and garment workers? February 2008. www.laborrights.org.

Maquila Solidarity Network. The apparel industry and the economic crisis: what is happening in the Americas? MFA Forum Americas Working Group session. April 24, 2009. http://en.maquilasolidarity.org.

Maquila Solidarity Network. The Crisis and Garment Production in Central America. March 2009.

McGregor, Jena. “Cutting Salaries Instead of Jobs.” Business Week. June 8, 2009.

Moberg, David. “Making the Feds Model Employers.” In These Times. January 2009.

National Labor Committee. High Tech Misery in China: The Dehumanization of Young Workers Producing Our Computer Keyboards. February 2009. www.nlc.net.

The National Labor Committee. “Metro Group Linked to Horrific Sweatshop Conditions in Bangladesh.” May 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

The National Labor Committee. “NLC Urges Metro Not to Cut and Run.” May 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

The National Labor Committee and the Center for Studies and Support for Local Development. “Update—Firings and Threats at the Nicotex Factory.” March 14, 2009. www.nlcnet.org.

The National Labor Committee and the Center for Studies and Support for Local Development. “Women Exploiting Women—Women in the U.S. Are Purchasing Clothing Sewn by Women Who Are Exploited in Guatemala.” February 25, 2009. www.nlcnet.org.

Oxfam Hong Kong. Transparency Report II: Have Hong Kong Garment Companies Improved Their Reporting on Labour Standards? March 2009.

Plank, Leonard; Staritz, Cornelia; Lukas, Karin. Labor Rights in Global Production Networks; An Analysis of the Apparel and Electronics Sector in Romania. June 2009. www.goodelectronics.org.

Poyhonen, P. Legal and Illegal Blured: Update on Tin Production for Consumer Electronics in Indonesia. FinnWatch. June 2009. www.somo.nl.

Rosenfeld, Herman. The North American Auto Industry in Crisis. Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

SACOM and WEED. “Fujitsu Siemens Computers Does Not Take Responsibility for Labor Rights Violations in Their Supply Chain in China.” April 1, 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Sepúlveda, Omaira Paez. 2008 Report on the Colombian Flower Sector: Labor Conditions and the Crisis in the Sector. Cactus Corporation. January 1, 2009. www.laborrights.org.

Schipper, Irene and de Hann, Esther. Configuring Labour Rights: Labour Conditions in the Production of Computer Parts in the Philippines. SOMO and makeITfair. July 2009. goodelectronics.org.

SOMO. “Contract Labour in the Electronics Sector Around the World.” 2009.

SOMO. Philips Electronics—Overview of Controversial Business Practices in 2008. April 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Yates, Michael D. “Why Unions Still Matter.” Monthly Review: Vol. 60, No. 9. February 2009.

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2009 Global Development & Poverty

Abramson, Evan. “Soy: A Hunger for Land.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 3. May/June 2009.

Akyuz, Yilmaz. The Management of Capital Flows and Financial Vulnerability in Asia. Third World Network Global Economy Series 17. March 2009. www.twnside.org.sg.

Alexander, Lindsay; Gündüz, Canan; Subedi, DB. What role for business in “post-conflict” economic recovery? Perspectives from Nepal. International Alert. March 2009. www.international-alert.org.

Altieri, Miguel A. Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty. Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Altman, Roger C. Globalization in Retreat: Further Geopolitical Consequences of the Financial Crisis. Foreign Affairs. July/August 2009.

Altman, Roger C. The Great Crash, 2008: A Geopolitical Setback for the West. Foreign Affairs. January/February 2009.

Amin, Samir. “Nepal, a Promising Revolutionary Advance.” Monthly Review: Vol. 60, No. 9. February 2009.

Amnesty International. Demand Dignity: Human Rights=Less Poverty. May 2009. www.amnesty.org.

Amnesty International. Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta. 2009. http://amnesty.org/.

Asia Resource Monitor Centre. Organizing for Change: Lessons and Strategies from Below. March 9-11, 2009. www.amrc.org.hk.

Balfour, Frederik. “The Surprising Strength of Southeast China. Business Week. June 8, 2009.

Basel Action Network (BAN). The EarthECycle Pittsburgh “Recycling” Scam. May 2009. www.ban.org.

Becker, Marc. “Snubbing Davos: The Presidents at the World Social Forum.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 3. May/June 2009.

Bello, Walden. “U-20: Will the Global Economy Resurface?” Foreign Policy in Focus. March 30, 2009. www.fpif.org.

Bello, Walden and Baviera, Mara. Food Wars. Focus on the Global South. July 8, 2009. www.focusweb.org.

Bello, Walden and George, Susan. “A New, Green, Democratic Deal.” New Internationalist. January/February 2009.

Benchmarks Foundation for Social Corporate Responsibility. Shoprite in Malawi, Swaziland and Zambia. April 1, 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Bernabe, Rafael. “The Battle for Puerto Rico’s Labor Movement: Teacher’s Union Repels SEIU Raid.” Against the Current, 139. March/April 2009.

Bertini, Catherine and Glickman, Dan. Farm Futures: Bringing Agricultures Back to U.S. Foreign Policy. Foreign Affairs. May/June 2009.

Bhandari, Ravi and Linghorn, Alex. “Reforming Land Reform: Nepal’s land-rights movement moves beyond failed market-based approaches.” Dollars & Sense. July/August 2009.

Bonfiglio, Olga. “Urban Agriculture and Social Justice.” Z Magazine. June 2009.

Bonilla, Yarimar. “Guadeloupe on Strike:A New Political Chapter in the French Antilles.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 3. May/June 2009.

Braxton, Nick. PACER Plus and its Alternatives: Which way for trade and development in the Pacific? Oxfam Australia and Oxfam New Zealand, July 2009. www.oxfam.org.au.

Bremmer, Ian. State Capitalism Comes of Age: The End of the Free Market? Foreign Affairs. May/June 2009.

Brenner, Robert. “The Economy in a World of Trouble.” Against the Current, 139. March/April 2009.

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy. “Sub-Saharan Africa’s Vanishing Peasantries and the Specter of a Global Food Crisis.” Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Burbach, Roger. “Treating Bolivia as a Sovereign Partner.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 1. January/February 2009.

Cahill, Damien. “The End of Neoliberalism.” Z Magazine. January 2009.

Chandrasekhar, CP. Financial Liberalization and the New Dynamics Growth in India. Third World Network Global Economy Series 13. January 2009. http://twnside.org.sg.

Cosar, Simten and Yegenoglu, Metin. The Neoliberal Restructing of Turkey’s Social Security System. Monthly Review: Vol. 60, No. 11. April 2009.

Crossing the Line. Documentary. www.crossingtheline.info.

Dangl, Benjamin. “Latin America Breaks Free.” The Progressive. February 2009.

Desmarais, Annette Aurelie and Navarro, Luis Hernandez. “Voices From Maputo: La Via Campesina Fifth International Conference.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 3. May/June 2009.

Donaghy, Rita. One Death is Too Many: Inquiry Into the Underlying Causes of Construction Fatal Accidents. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, July 2009. www.nce.co.uk.

Drum, Kevin. “Trading Up: How Obama Can Fix the Climate, Raise Billions for Clean Tech, and Send You a Fat Check.” Mother Jones. March/ April 2009.

Ellner, Steve. “A New Model With Rough Edges: Venezuela’s Community Councils.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 3. May/June 2009.

The Enough Project. A Comprehensive Approach to Congo’s Conflict Minerals. 2009. www.enoughproject.org.

European Environment Agency. Waste Without Borders in the EU? Transboundary Shipments of Waste. EEA Report No 1. March 2009. www.eea.europa.eu.

Faiola, Anthony. “A Global Retreat As Economies Dry Up: As World Trade Plummets, Bustling Ports Stand Idle and Foreign Workers Track Back Home.” The Washington Post. March 5, 2009. www.washingtonpost.com.

Fairtrade Labelling Australia & New Zealand and Oxfam Australia. Tackling poverty through trade - How Australians buying Fairtrade benefits producers in developing countries. April 2009. www.oxfam.org.au/.

Fitzgerald, Joan. “Cities on the Front Lines.” The American Prospect. April 2009.

Foster, John Bellamy and Magdoff, Fred. Financial Implosion and Stagnation: Back to the Real Economy. Monthly Review: Volume 60, No. 7. December 2008.

Friends of the Earth Europe, Global Action on ArcelorMittal, CEE Bankwatch Network. ArcelorMittal: Going nowhere slowly -A review of the global steel giant's environmental and social impacts in 2008-2009. May 1, 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Garrett, Nicholas and Mitchell, Harrison. Trading Conflict for Development. Resource Consulting Services - for UK Department for Intl. Development, London School of Economics & Ghent University. April 7, 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Ghilarducci, Teresa. “The Goldless Years: How to Save the Nation’s Retirees from Bankruptcy.” New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 2. Spring 2009.

Gill, Lesley; Grandin, Greg; Poole, Deborah; Weisbrot, Mark. “Progressive Policy for the Americas? A NACLA Roundtable.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 1. January/February 2009.

Goodman, Amy. “Around the World, the Workers Are Fighting Back.” Alternet. May 18, 2009. www.alternet.org.

Global Labor Strategies. “Globalization From Below Tackles the Great Recession.” A Global Labor Strategies Discussion Paper. 2009. www.globallaborblog.org.

Global Witness. Country for sale: How Cambodia’s elite has captured the country’s extractive industries. February 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Godnick, William and Klein, Diana. The challenges of supporting "alternative" economic opportunities for peacebuilding – Perspectives from Colombia. International Alert. March 2009. www.international-alert.org.

Goldberg, Michelle. “Rights Versus Rites.” The American Prospect. May 2009.

Goldstein, Dana. “Pink-Collar Blues: Does the Recession Provide an Opportunity to Remedy Occupational Gender Segregation?” The American Prospect. June 2009.

Gupta, Arun. “The Early History of the New Depression.” Z Magazine. April 2009.

Habel, Janette. “A New Model of Socialism? Cuba in Search of Renovation.” Against the Current, 141. July/August 2009.

Heintz, James. “The Grim State of the States: The Fiscal Crisis Facing State and Local Governments.” New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 2. Spring 2009.

Herman, Edward S. “Corporate Reform in an Age of Intensified Class Warfare.” Z Magazine. June 2009.

Holland, Joshua. “The Spectacular, Sudden Crash of the Global Economy.” Alternet, February 27, 2009. www.alternet.org.

Holleman, Hannah; McChesney, Robert W.; Foster, John Bellamy; Jonna, R. Jamil. The Penal State in an Age of Crisis. Monthly Review: Volume 61, No. 2. June 2009.

Holt-Giménez, Eric. From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty: The Challenge of Social Movements. Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Howard, April. Saying No to Soy: The Campesino Struggle for Sustainable Agriculture in Paraguay. Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Howard, April. “The Battle Over Bolivia’s Lithium and the Future of Energy.” Globalization Monitor. June 15, 2009. www.globalmon.org.hk.

Howard, April. “Salt of the Earth.” In These Times. May 2009.

Human Rights Watch. "Are You Happy to Cheat Us?" Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Russia. February 10, 2009. www.hrw.org.

Human Rights Watch. Diamonds in the Rough: Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe. June 26, 2009. www.hrw.org.

Human Rights Watch. Not Yet a Workers’ Paradise: Vietnam’s Suppression of the Independent Workers’ Movement. May 4, 2009. www.hrw.org.

Human Rights Watch. United States: The Employee Free Choice Act,

A Human Rights Imperative. January 27, 2009. www.hrw.org.

Human Rights Watch. Well Oiled: Oil and Human Rights in Equatorial Guinea. July 9, 2009. www.hrw.org.

Human Rights Watch. Workers in the Shadows: Abuse and Exploitation of Child Domestic Workers in Indonesia. February 11, 2009. www.hrw.org.

Human Rights Watch. World Report 2009: Events of 2008. 2009.www.hrw.org.

Hurst, Rosey; Buttle, Dr. Martin; Lehrer, Michelle; and Sandars, Jonathan. Getting Smarter: Ethical Trading in the Downturn: Annual Report 2008. Impactt. April 2009. www.impacttlimited.com.

Hylton, Forrest. “Containing Multitudes: Death, Destruction, and Rebirth in Brooklyn.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 41, No. 6. November/December 2008.

Inglehart, Ronald and Welzel, Christian. How Development Leads to Democracy: What We Know About Modernization.” Foreign Affairs, Volume 88, No. 2. March/April 2009.

Infochange India. “Cyber-coolies.” News and Features. April 2009. http://infochangeindia.org.

International Council on Mining and Metals. Minerals taxation regimes: A review of issues and challenges in their design and application. February 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

International Labor Office. Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining, Towards Policy Coherence. 2008. www.ilo.org/publns.

International Labor Rights Forum. Labor Considerations Regarding the US-Colombia Free-Trade Agreement. May 12, 2009. www.laborrights.org.

International Labor Rights Forum. Precarious Work: How Temporary Jobs and Subcontracting Undermines Women, Migrants and Workers’ Rights to Decent Work. July 7, 2009. www.laborrights.org.

International Monetary Fund. The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low-Income Countries. March 2009.

International Trade Union Confederation. Internationally Recognised Core Labour Standards in Guatemala: Report for the WTO General Council Review of the Trade Policies of Guatemala. February 2-4, 2009.

International Trade Union Confederation. Internationally Recognised Core Labour Standards in Guyana: Report for the WTO General Council Review of the Trade Policies of Guyana. July 8-10, 2009.

International Trade Union Confederation. ITUC Report--A Recipe for Hunger: How the World is Falling on Food. 2009. www.ituc-csi.org

International Trade Union Confederation. ITUC Report—Gender (In)equality in the Labour Market: An Overview of Global Trends and Developments. March 2009. www.ituc-csi.org

International Trade Union Confederation. Trade Unions and Climate Change: Equity, Justice & Solidarity in the Fight Against Climate Change. 2009. www.ituc-csi.org

ITUC CSI IGB, TUAC, and Global Unions. Statement to the London G20 Summit: Global Unions London Declaration. April 2009.

IUF. “IUF Presses Union Agenda for Solutions to Global Crisis/ ILO Workshop Marks Advance.” March 21, 2009. www.iuf.org.

Kar, Dev and Cartwright-Smith, Devon. Developing Countries: 2002-2006 Global Financial Integrity. Global Financial Report- Executive Summary. 2009. http://americas.irc-online.org.

Kapstein, Ethan B. Africa’s Capitalist Revolution: Preserving Growth in a Time of Crisis. Foreign Affairs. July/August 2009.

Khor, Martin. Financial Policy and Management of Capital Flows: The Case of Malaysia. Third World Network: Global Economy Series 16. May 2009. www.twnside.org.sg.

Klein, Brian P. and Cukier, Kenneth Neil. Tamed Tigers, Distressed Dragon. Foreign Affairs. July/August 2009.

Knoepfel, Ivo and Hagart, Gordon. Future proof? Embedding environmental, social and governance issues in investment markets. IFC, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, UN Global Compact. January 30, 2009.

Kovel, Joel. “Climate Change and Ecosocialism.” Dollars & Sense. March/April 2009.

Kramer, William. Turning the Tables: Sustainable Solutions to the Global Food Crisis. New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 1. Winter 2009.

Lebowitz, Michael A. “The Path to Human Development: Capitalism or Socialism?” Monthly Review: Vol. 60, No. 9. February 2009.

Leech, Garry. “The Oil Palm Industry: A Blight on Afro-Colombia.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 4. July/August 2009.

MacEwan Arthur. “Inequality, Power, and Ideology: Getting It Right About the Causes of the Current Economic Crisis.” Dollars & Sense. March/April 2009.

Madsen, Robert. “Comparing Crises: Is the Current Economic Collapse Like Japan’s in the 1990s?” Foreign Affairs. July/August 2009.

Mander, Jerry. “A Bias to the Local: The Subsidiarity Principle.” Multinational Monitor. March/April 2009.

Magdoff, Fred and Tokar, Brian. “Agriculture and Food in Crisis: An Overview.” Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Mattei, Ugo and Nader, Laura. “Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal.” Multinational Monitor. January/February 2009.

Matthaei, Julie and Allard, Jenna. “From Crisis to Job Creation: Labor and the Solidarity Economy.” Dollars & Sense. January/February 2009.

Mattera, Philip. “A Green Industrial Economy.” The American Prospect. April 2009.

Mattoo, Aaditya and Subramanian, Arvind. From Doha to the Next Bretton Woods: A New Multilateral Trade Agenda. Foreign Affairs. January/February 2009.

McMartin, Joseph A. Building the Interfaith Worker Justice Movement: Kim Bobo’s Story. Labor: Volume 6, No. 1. Spring 2009.

McMichael, Philip. “The World Food Crisis in Historical Perspective.” Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Miller, John. “What’s in a Name? Part recession, part depression, today’s economic meltdown is very much a product of the large dose of economic repression that preceded it.” Dollars & Sense. July/August 2009.

Minambres, Ignacio Jose. Investment Liberalization in the EU-ASEAN FTA. Focus on the Global South: Occasional Papers 5. February 2009. www.focusweb.org.

Moberg, David. “The Global Meltdown.” In These Times. May 2009.

Murphy, Laura. An “Indestructible Right”: John Ryan and the Catholic Origins of the U.S. Living Wage Movement, 1906-1938. Labor: Volume 6, No. 1. Spring 2009.

Murphy, Sofia. Free Trade in Agriculture: A Bad Idea Whose Time is Done. Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Murray, Star and Williams, Charles. “Illegals” of the World Unite!” Against the Current, 140. July/August 2009.

Open Society Institute of Southern Africa, Third World Network Africa, Tax Justice Network Africa, Action Aid International, and Christian Aid. Breaking the Curse: How Transparent Taxation and Fair Taxes can Turn Africa’s Mineral Wealth Into Development. March 2009.

Ortiz, Lucia. “Homegrown Energy.” New Internationalist. January/February 2009.

Ortiz, Paul. “Segregation and the Legacy of the Black Labor Struggles: Before the CIO.” Against the Current, 138. January/February 138.

Oxfam International. Blind Optimism: Challenging the Myths About Private Healthcare in Poor Countries, Executive Summary. Briefing Paper No. 125, February 2009.

Ozdemir, Didem; Amiel, Barry; and Melburn, Norman. Give Girls a Chance. TUC Report for the World Day Against Child Labour. June 12, 2009. www.tuc.org.uk/childpoverty.

Patnaik, Utsa. Origins of the Food Crisis in India and Developing Countries. Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Peck, John E. “Via Campesina Confronts the Global Agrofuel Industrial Complex.” Z Magazine. January 2009.

Peterson, Luke Eric. Human Rights and Bilateral Investment Treaties - Mapping the role of human rights law within investor-state arbitration. Rights & Democracy. February 2009. www.dd-rd.ca.

Petras, James. “The Great Land Giveaway.” Z Magazine. March 2009.

Petras, James. “Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon.” Z Magazine. July/August 2009.

Pollin, Robert. Economic Prospects: Financing the Green Economy as an Answer to Casino Capitalism. New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 1. Winter 2009.

Pollin, Robert. “Where the Jobs Are.” The American Prospect. April 2009.

Poole, Deborah. “The Minga of Resistance: Policy Making From Below.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 1. January/February 2009.

Post, Charlie. “Radical and Marxian Crisis Theories: Exploring the Roots of the Crisis. Against the Current, 141. July/August 2009.

Public Citizen. New Report: Panama FTA Would Undermine U.S. Efforts to Stop Offshore Tax-Haven Abuse and Regulate Risky Financial Conduct. April 29, 2009. www.citizen.org/.

Ramsing, J. Wilde and Steinweg, T. The Impact of Transnational Corporations on Sustainable Electricity Provision in Developing Countries. SOMO. June 2009. www.somo.nl.

Ransom, David. “Meltdown South.” New Internationalist. January/February 2009.

Ransom, David. “The Age of Possibility.” New Internationalist. April 2009.

Rasmus, Jack. “Epic Recession Revisited.” Z Magazine. January 2009.

Rasmus, Jack. “Green Shoots or Stinkweeds?” Z Magazine. July/August 2009.

Rasmus, Jack.“Obama’s Busted Bank Bailout.” Z Magazine. April 2009.

Rasmus, Jack. “Obama’s Economic Plan vs. An Alternative.” Z Magazine. March 2009.

Rénique, Gerardo. “Against the Law of the Jungle: Peru’s Amazonian Uprising.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 1. January/February 2009.

Roberts, Paul. “Spoiled: Our Industrial Food System is Rotten to the Core. But Heirloom Arugula Won’t Save Us. Here’s What Will.” Mother Jones. March/April 2009.

Rosset, Peter. Fixing our Global Food System: Food Sovereignty and Redistributive Land Reform. Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Rosset, Peter. “Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Confronting the “New” Crisis.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 3. May/June 2009.

Sanders, Elizabeth. “Do-It-Yourself Governance.” In These Times. April 2009.

Schiavoni, Christina and Camacaro, William. The Venezuelan Effort to Build a New Food and Agriculture System. Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

Schipper, I. Clinical Trials in Developing Countries: How to Protect People Against Unethical Practices. SOMO. April 2009. www.somo.nl.

Shindondola-Mote, H. Uranium mining in Namibia: The Mystery Behind ‘Low Level Radiation.’ SOMO and LaRRI - Labour Resource & Research Institute. February 2009. www.somo.nl.

Singh, Suhasini. Richer Bosses, Poorer Workers: Bangalore’s Garment Industry. SOMO. July 2009. www.somo.nl.

Smaller, Carin and Mann, Howard. A Thirst for Distant Land: Foreign Investment in Agricultural Land and Water. Globalization Monitor: International Institute for Sustainable Development. June 22, 2009. www.iisd.org.

Smithson, Shelley. “Radioactive Revival in New Mexico.” The Nation. June 29, 2009.

Socialist Group in the European Parliament. Looking Beyond Doha? New Thinking on Trade Policy and Development. 2009. www.socialistgroup.eu.

Solidarity Center, AFL-CIO. Justice for All: A Guide to Worker Rights in the Global Economy . 2009. www.solidaritycenter.org.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. “A Global Recovery for a Global Recession.” The Nation. June 24, 2009. www.thenation.com.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. “A Real Cure for the Global Economic Crackup.” The Nation. July 13, 2009.

Straub, Jim. “Braddock, Pennsylvania: Out of the Furnace and into the Fire.” Monthly Review: Volume 60, No. 7. December 2008.

Street, Paul. “The is No Peace Dividend.” Z Magazine. January 2009.

SwedWatch. Out of Control: E-Waste Trade Flows From the EU to Developing Countries. April 2009. www.swedwatch.org.

Third World Network. EU EPAs: Economic and Social Development Implications:
the case of the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement. February 2009. twnet@po.jaring.my.

Third World Network. Preliminary Note on Financial Crisis and Trade and Investment Treaties. March 2009. www.twnside.org.

Unified Chemical Workers Union. “A Struggle for Life and for the Environment.” 2009. www.quimicosunificados.com.br.

U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project. Gendered Injustice: The Struggle of Women Flower Workers in Colombia. April 2009. http://usleap.org.

Vernengo, Matias. “Reversing Course: A New Economic Agenda for Latin America.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 1. January/February 2009.

Vidal, John. “Fears for the World’s poor Countries as the Rich Grab Land to Grow Food.” The Guardian. July 3, 2009. www.guardian.co.uk.

Weber, Joseph. “Hunting for Growth.” Business Week. June 22, 2009.

Weissman, Robert. “A New Life for the IMF: Capitalizing on Crisis.” Multinational Monitor. March/April 2009.

Welz, Adam. “Trouble on the Limpopo: Mozambique Has Survived Colonialism and Civil War—But it May Be No Match for the Ethanol Industry.” Mother Jones. March/April 2009.

Wicks-Lim, Jeannette. “Should We Be Talking About Living Wages Now?” Dollars & Sense. March/April 2009.

Wilson, David L. “The Immigration System: Maybe Not So Broken.” 2009.www.MRZine.org.

Wouters, Jan & Hachez, Nicolas. Business & human rights in EU external relations: Making the EU a leader at home and internationally. Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. April 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Yanz, Lynda. The Crisis and Garment Production in Central America. Maquila Solidarity Network. March 2009. www.maquilasolidarity.org.

Yates, Michael D. “Don’t Pity the Poor Immigrants, Fight Alongside Them.” Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 3. July-August 2009.

York, Richard; Clark, Brett; Foster, John Bellamy. Capitalism in Wonderland. Monthly Review: Vol. 61, No. 1. May 2009.

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2009 Codes of Conduct

Anderson, Mitch; Finer, Matt; Herriges, Dan; Miller, Andrew; Soltani, Atossa. ConocoPhillips in the Peruvian Amazon. Amazon Watch, Save America's Forests. May 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Apple Inc. Supplier Responsibility 2009 Progress Report. 2009. www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/.

Aston, Adam. “Why Should Landlords Save the Earth? Commercial building owners may get in the way of cities’ eco-friendly ambitions.” Business Week. May 18, 2009.

Bader, Christine. “How Does Business Value Human Rights?” Qn: Yale School of Management. 2009.

Baker, Mallen. “Columnists: CSR: So What Did We Learn in 2008 That We Can Use in 2009? Ethical Corporation. January 7, 2009.

Baker, Mallen. “What Companies Tell the Global Compact They Are Doing.” Ethical Corporation, April 23, 2009. www.ethicalcorp.com.

Ballinger, Jeff. The Threat Posed by “Corporate Social Responsibility” to Trade Unions. 2009.

Bensusan, Graciela. Norms, Practices and Perceptions: Labour Enforcement in Mexico’s Garment Industry. UAM-X, September 2008.

Berry, Wendell. “Being Kind to the Land.” The Progressive. February 2009.

Bernstein, Aaron. Quantifying Labor and Human Rights Portfolio Risk. Capital Matters: No. 4. Harvard Law School Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project. June 2009.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/.

Business for Social Responsibility. Value Chain Approaches to a Low-Carbon Economy: Business and Policy Partnerships. Discussion Paper for the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen. http://bsr.org/reports/.

Buy IT Fair. Guideline for Sustainable Procurement of Computers. May 2009. www.procureITfair.org.

Byrnes, Nanette. “Kinder, Gentler, Richer Companies.” Business Week. August 10, 2009.

Capell, Kerry. “Novartis Radically Remaking its Drug Business: CEO Dan Vesalla’s Growth Mantra is Follow the Science, Not the Financials.” Business Week. June 22, 2009.

Carrefour and FIDH. Empowering Workers Through Training on Fundamental Rights at Work in Bangladesh. Draft Case Study on the Right to Decent Work. 2009.

Citizen’s Research Collective. The Public Price of Success: The Costs of the Nokia Telecom SEZ in Chennai for the Government and Workers. June, 2009. http://sez.icrindia.org.

Center for International Private Enterprise and Social Accountability International. From Words to Action: A Business Case for Implementing Workplace Standards, Experiences from Emerging Markets. 2009.

Chhabara, Rajesh. Message Lost in the Crowd? Ethical Corporation. May 2009.

Chhabara, Rajesh. “Strategy and Management: Supplier Payment Ethics—The Cost of Squeezing Suppliers.” Ethical Corporation. February 3, 2009.

Chhabara, Rajesh. “Wages—Working for a Living.” Ethical Corporation. June 30, 2009. www.ethicalcorp.com.

De Haan, Esther and Schipper, Irene. Computer Connections: Supply Chain Policies and Practices of Seven Computer Companies. SOMO Paper. May 2009. www.somo.nl.

Dent, Kelly and Connor, Tim. “Almost 20 Frequently Asked Questions…on Shopping for and Sourcing Ethical Clothing and Sportswear.” Oxfam Australia. 2009.

Dovey, Kathryn. Putting Gender on the Business and Human Rights Agenda. Realizing Rights, June 2009. www.realizingrights.org.

EarthRights International and the Shwe Gas Movement. A Governance Gap: The Failure of the Korean Government to hold Korean Corporations Accountable to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Regarding Violations in Burma. June 15, 2009. www.earthrights.org.

Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition. 2008 Annual Report. 2009. www.eeicc.info.

Engardio, Pete and Aston, Adam. “Little Green Dynamos.” Businessweek. July 27, 2009.

Ethical Corporation Institute. Guide to Industry Initiatives in Corporate Social Responsibility: Your Guide to Selecting the Right Multistakeholder Initiative for Your Company. May 2009. www.ethicalcorpinstitute.com/initiatives.

Ethical Corporation Newsdesk. “By Invitation: Supply Chain Auditing: A New Private-Public Partnership.” February 10, 2009. Ethical Corporation. www.ethicalcorp.com

Fair Labor Association. “FLA Training for EICC in Shenzhen, China.” 2009. www.tp.fairlabor.org.

Fair Labor Association. Widespread Overtime and Why It Doesn’t Work. FLA Field Survey Report 2008. 2009.

Fair Wear Foundation. Weathering the Storm: A Guide for FWF Member Companies Sourcing From China During the Global Financial Crisis. March 13, 2009.

Farzad, Roben. “Israel’s New Pioneers Cash in on Cleantech.” Business Week. May 18, 2009.

Fraser, Max. Labor’s Conundrum: Growth vs. Standards. New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 1. Winter 2009.

GoodElectronics and makeITfair. Report: Round Table for the Electronics Industry and Civil Society Organizations; Improving Labour Standards in the Global Electronics Industry, Defining Strategies That Work may 7-8 2009. July 2009. www.goodelectronics.org.

Hanna, Julia. “Why Sweatshops Flourish.” Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge. March 23, 2009.

Herman, Edward S. “Corporate Reform in an Age of Intensified Class Warfare.” Z Magazine. June 2009.

Hewlett Packard. 2008 Global Citizenship Report. April 2009. www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/gcreport/downloads.html.

Holdcroft, Jenny. Creating Conditions for Collective Labour Relations to Improve Labor Rights in the Electronics Industry. International Metalworkers Foundation, 2009.

Hyman, Mark. “Green Grow the Ballparks.” Business Week. April 20, 2009.

International Council on Mining and Metals. Leadership Matters: the Elimination of Fatalities. 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

International Labour Office. The Cost of Coercion—Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Report of the Director General. International Labour Conference: 98th Session, 2009. Report I(B).

International Labor Office. The ILO at 90: Working for Social Justice. World of Work: No. 64, December 2008.

Juhasz, Antonia. The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report. May 26, 2009. http://www.TrueCostofChevron.com/

Kate, Albert ten. Unacceptable metal mining in developing countries and the responsibilities of companies in the Netherlands. Friends of the Earth Netherlands, May 2009. www.milieudefensie.nl.

Keeler, Rachel. “Tax Havens and the Financial Crisis.” Dollars & Sense. May/June 2009.

Levine, Art. “Shilling on the Corporate Dollar.” In These Times. June 2009.

Lichtenstein, Nelson. “Sam’s World: How the Obama Era Will Transform Wal-Mart.” New Labor Forum: Volume 18, Issue 2. Spring 2009.

The London School of Economics and Political Science and Corporate Responsibility. The Reality of Rights: Barrriers to Accessing Remedies When Business Operates Beyond Borders. May 2009. www.corporate-reponsibility.org.

Mark, Jason. “A New Shade of Green.” The Progressive. February 2009.

Miller, Doug; Turner, Simon; Grinter, Tom. Back to the Future: Mature Systems of Industrial Relations Approaches and Social Compliance in Outsourced Apparel Supply Chains. First Draft: Note cf. Beyond Social Audits. 2009.

Maquila Solidarity Network. “How Will the Global Financial Crisis Affect the Garment Industry and Garment Workers?” February 2009.

Meyerson, Harold. “Where Are the Workers?” The American Prospect. March 2009.

MFA Forum. Guidelines for managing Responsible Transitions. www.mfa-forum.net, www.accountability21.net.

Moberg, David. “Battling Over Employee Free Choice.” In These Times. June 2009.

Moberg, David. “Give CEO Pay the Pink Slip.” In These Times. April 2009.

Moberg, David. “Ready to Rumble: Workers and Corporate America Battle Over the Employee Free Choice Act.” In These Times. February 2009.

Mock, Brentin. “Green Peacemaker: Can the new head of the EPA fight for both business and justice?” The American Prospect. June 2009.

Montague, Peter. “Burden of Proof: the Precautionary Principle.” Multinational Monitor. March/April 2009.

Norbrand, S. Out Of Controle: E-waste Trade Flows From the EU to Developing Countries. SOMO. April 2009. www.somo.nl.

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Economy. Report No. 10 (2008-2009) to the Storting. www.regjeringen.no.

Oxfam America. Metals, mining, and sustainable development in Central America: An assessment of benefits and costs. February 2009. www.business-humanrights.org.

Oxfam Hong Kong. Transparency Report II: Have Hong Kong Garment Companies Improved Their Reporting on Labour Standards? March 2009.

Oxfam Hong Kong and CSR Asia. Corporate Social Responsibility Survey of Hang Seng Index Constituent Companies. December 2008. www.oxfam.org.hk.

Paharia, Neeru and Deshpande, Rohit. Sweatshop Labor is Wrong Unless the Jeans are Cute: Motivated Moral Disengagement. Harvard Business School Working Paper.
2009.

Parker, Mike and Jordan, Margaret. “One Community’s Victory: Richmond, California vs. Chevron.” Against the Current, 139. March/April 2009.

Pillay, Navanethem. “The Corporate Responsibility to Respect: A Human Rights Milestone.” Annual Labour and Social Policy Review. 2009.

Pohle, George and Hittner, Jeff. Attaining Sustainable Growth Through Corporate Social Responsibility. IBMInstitute for Business Value. 2008.

ProcureITfair. Buy IT Fair; Guideline for Sustainable Procurement of Computers. July 2009. www.procureITfair.org.

Public Citizen. Home Court Advantage: How the Building Industry Uses Forced Arbitration to Evade Arbitration. May 20, 2009. www.fairarbitrationnow.org.

Research & Policy Committee of Committee for Economic Development. Rebuilding Corporate Leadership: How Directors Can Link Long-Term Performance with Public Goals. February 2009. www.ced.org.

Riddleberger, Eric and Hittner, Jeffrey. Leading a Sustainable Enterprise: Leveraging Insight and Information to Act. IBM Institute for Business Value. 2009.

Russell, John. “Strategy and Management: Primark—Cheap and Cheerful at an Ethical Cost?” Ethical Corporation. March 2, 2009. www.ethicalcorporation.com

Schmitt, Mark. “5 Ways of Looking at Risk.” The American Prospect. May 2009.

The Seattle Times. “Tough Choice: shoes, or morals?” February 1, 2009.

Senser, Robert A. “ To Embed Human Rights in Multinationals.” Human Rights for Workers. June 24, 2008. www.humanrightsforworkers.blogspot.com.

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. Towards a Just and Sustainable Solar Energy Industry. White Paper, January 14, 2009.

The Solidarity Center. Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Guatemala. November 2008. www.solidaritycenter.org.

Srinivasan, S. Ethical Concerns in Clinical Trials in India. SOMO. May 2009. www.somo.nl.

Talvi, Salji J. A. “Our Town vs. Exxon.” In These Times. February 2009.

Tax Justice Network. Where on Earth Are You? Major Corporations and Tax Havens. March 2009. www.somo.nl.

United Nations. Business and Human Rights: Towards Operationalizing the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework; Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.” Human Rights Council: Eleventh Session, Agenda Item 3. April 22, 2009.

United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ruggie, John. State obligations to provide access to remedy for human rights abuses by third parties, including business: an overview of international and regional provisions, commentary and decisions. Human Rights Council, Eleventh Session, Agenda 3. May 15, 2009. www.reports-and-materials.org.

Verite and CREA. “Draft: Standards for the Knowledge and Skills of Social Auditors.” 2009.

Washington Office on Latin America. DR-CAFTA and Worker’s Rights: Moving from Paper to Practice. May 2009.

Weber, Christopher. “Green Jobs for Whom?” In These Times. February 2009.

Weissman, Robert and Donahue, James. “Wall Street’s Best Investment: 10 Deregulatory Steps to Financial Meltdown.” Multinational Monitor. January/February 2009.

Welch, Jack and Suzy. “Giving in an Unforgiving Time.” Business Week. June 1, 2009.

Welford, Richard. “CSR and Sustainable Development in Turbulent Times.” CSR Asia Weekly: Vol. 5, Week 11. March 2009.

Wilson, Emma. Company-Led Approaches to Conflict Resolution in the Forest Sector. International Institute for Environment & Development, for The Forests Dialogue. April 2009. www.bench-marks.org.za/.

Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Getting What’s Coming to Us: Capitalism and Social Rights.” Against the Current, 140. May/June 2009.
Worth, Jess. “Slick Operators.” New Internationalist. July/August 2009.

Wong, May. “Development and Trends in the Chinese Garment and Textile Industry.” MFA+3, September 2008.

Worth, Jess. “Power Politics.” New Internationalist. January/February 2009.

Zeng, Eddy Y. and Ni, Hong-Gang. “Law Enforcement and Global Collaboration are the Keys to Containing E-Waste Tsunami in China. Environmental Science and Technology Viewpoint: Volume 43, No. 11, 2009 .

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2009 China Factory Reports

Cha, Eunjung Ariana. “As China’s Jobless Numbers Mount, Protests Grow Boulder: Economic Woes Shining a Light on Social Issues.” The Washington Post; January 13, 2009. www.washingtonpost.com.

Chan, Jenny and Ho, Charles. The Dark Side of Cyberspace: Inside the Sweatshops of China’s Computer Hardware Production. procureITfair, Weed, and SACOM; December 2008.

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO). Playing With Labour Rights; Music Player and Game Console Manufacturing in China. 2009. www.somo.nl.

FinnWatch, SACOM and SOMO. Playing With Labour Rights; Music and Game Console Manufacturing in China. March 2009. http://makeitfair.org.

National Labor Committee. High Tech Misery in China: The Dehumanization of Young Workers Producing Our Computer Keyboards. February 2009. www.nlc.net.

Tinsley, Rebecca. “On the World’s Factory Floor.” New Internationalist. June 2009.

Tucker, Libby. “Wheel Back the Factories.” New Internationalist. June 2009.

Wong, May. “No Choice But to Fight!: A Documentation of Battery Women Worker’s Struggle for Health and Dignity.” Globalization Monitor. July 2009. www.globalmon.org.hk.

Worker Rights Consortium. Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Lianglong Socks Co. Ltd. (China): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report. April 3, 2008. www.workersrights.org.

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2009 China Articles

Asma, Stephen T. “Happy Serf Liberation Day.” In These Times. May 2009.

Aston, Adam. “Can China Clean Up Its Act?” Business Week. May 25, 2009.

Baah, Anthony Yaw and Jauch, Herbert. Chinese Investments in Africa: A Labour Perspective. Globalization Monitor: African Labour Research Network. May 2009. www.globalmon.org.hk.

Balfour, Frederik. “In China, a Burst of Corporate Bonds: Thanks to Streamlined Regulations, More Companies Are Issuing Debt Cheaply and Fast.” Business Week. July 6, 2009.

Barboza, David. “A Rebound of Growth in China: Stimulus is Partly Credited.” The New York Times; July 17, 2009.

Barboza, David. “A Textile Capital of China Is Hobbled by a Downturn Gone Global.” The New York Times; February 28, 2009. www.nytimes.com.

Barboza, David. “Contradictions in China, and the Rise of a Billionaire Family.” The New York Times; January 2, 2009. www.nytimes.com.

Bradsher, Keith. “As Trade Slows, China Rethinks Its Growth Strategy.” The New York Times; January 1, 2009. www.nytimes.com.

Bradsher, Keith. “China Losing Taste For Debt From U.S.” The New York Times; January 8, 2009. www.nytimes.com.

Bradsher, Keith. “Trade Losses Rise in China, Threatening Jobs.” The New York Times; January 13, 2009. www.nytimes.com.

Branigan, Tania. “China Fears Riots Will Spread as Boom Goes Sour.” The Observer; January 25, 2009. www.guardian.co.uk/world.

Callick, Rowan. “Millions of Chinese Migrant Workers Lose Jobs.” The Australian; March 2, 2009. www.theaustralian.news.com.au.

Canaves, Sky. “Factory Closures Strain China’s Labor Law.” Wall St. Journal; January 16, 2009. http://online.wsj.com.

Cha, Ariana Eunjung. “In China, Despair Mounting Among Migrant Workers: Millions Are Without Jobs, Options.” The Washington Post; March 4, 2009. www.washingtonpost.com.

Chan, Jenny. Meaningful Progress or Illusory Reform? Analyzing China’s Labor. New Labor Forum 18(2): 43-51, Spring 2009. www.sacom.hk.

Chen, W. From Tea Garden to Cup: China’s Tea Sustainability Report. SRI- Social Responsibility Institute. January 2009. www.somo.nl.

China Labour Bulletin. Going it Alone: The Workers’ Movement in China (2007-2008). July 9, 2009. www.clb.org.hk.

China Labour Bulletin. Protecting Workers’ Rights or Serving the Party: The Way Forward for China’s Trade Unions. March 2009. www.clb.org.hk.

China Labour Bulletin. “ Returning Home to Life in the Chinese Countryside.” www.clb.org.hk/en/node/100435/.

China Labour Bulletin. The Children of Migrant Workers. www.clb.org.hk/en/node/100459.

China Labour Bulletin Magazine. “What Has the Chinese Government Done to Protect the Rights of Migrant Workers’ Children?’. www.clb.org.hk.

China Training Institute. “Guangdong Takes Measures To Reduce Burden on Companies and Employees.” February 6, 2009. http://ctichina.org.

Davis, Rowenna. “The Yuan Plays the Dollar.” New Internationalist. June 2009.

Drew, Jill. “In China, Quake Survivors Must Swallow Grief and Anger.” The Washington Post; May 3, 2009. www.washingtonpost.com.

The Economist. “Time to Change the Act.” Chinese Business; February 19, 2009. www.economist.com.

Economy, Elizabeth C. and Segal, Adam. The G-2 Mirage: Why the United States and China Are Not Ready to Upgrade Ties. Foreign Affairs. May/June 2009.

Ediger, Laura and Hwang, Linda. Water Quality and Environmental Health in Southern China. A BSR Forum, July 2009. http://bsr.org/reports.

Edinger, Hannah and Sandrey, Ron. The Relevance of Chinese Agricultural Technologies for African Smallholder Farmers: Agricultural Technology Research in China. Globalization Monitor: Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch. April 2009. www.globalmon.org.hk.

Engardio, Pete. “Beijing Bolsters the Barriers: Despite appeals to the WTO, there’s not much the U.S. can do about China’s protectionist policies.” Business Week. July 6, 2009.

Engardio, Pete. “China’s Eroding Advantage.” Business Week. June 15, 2009.

Foroohar, Rana. “Why China Works.” Newsweek; January 19, 2009. www.newsweek.com.

Foster, John Bellamy. A Failed System: The World Crisis of Capitalist Globalization and its Impact on China. Monthly Review: Vol. 60, No. 10. March 2009.

Gat, Azar. Which Way Is History Marching? Debating the Authoritarian Revival. Foreign Affairs. July/ August 2009.

Globalization Monitor. Preliminary Report on China’s Going Global Labor Strategy. Working Paper Series. March 30, 2009. www.globalmon.org.hk.

Globalization Monitor. Working Paper on the Reform of the Urban Water Supply in Southern China - Water Privatization in China. March 31, 2009. www.globalmon.org.hk.

Harris, Dan. “China’s Labor Laws. Worry Me Or Worry Me Not.” China Law Blog; January 10, 2009. www.chinalawblog.com.

Harvey, Nick. “50 Years from Home.” New Internationalist. March 2009.

Hutzler, Charles. “Analysis: Income Gaps, Corruption Fuel China Riots.” The Washington Post, The Associated Press; July 14, 2009. www.washingtonpost.com.

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). “Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights 2009.” China; 2009.

Jacobs, Andrew. “China Fears Tremors as Jobs Vanish From Coast.” The New York Times; February 23, 2009. Www.nytimes.com.

Kaplan, Robert D. Center Stage for the Twenty-First Century: Power Plays in the Indian Ocean. Foreign Affairs, Volume 88, No. 2. March/April 2009.

Keane, Lauren. “Chinese Migrants Return to Rural Roots.” The Washington Post; January 2, 2009. www.washingtonpost.com.

Kernaghan, Charles. “Disney Holiday Toys: Made Under Abusive and Illegal Sweatshop Conditions in China.” The National Labor Committee. www.nlcnet.org/reports.php.

Kurlantzick, Joshua. “Twilight of the Autocrats: Will the Financial Crisis Bring Down Russia and China?” The American Prospect. March 2009.

Lee, Don. “Migrant Factory Workers at a Loss as China’s Economy Slumps.” Los Angeles Times; January 23, 2009. www.latimes.com.

Lewis, Bernard. Free at Last? The Arab World in the Twenty-first Century. Foreign Affairs, Volume 88, No. 2. March/April 2009.

Lett, Erin and Banister, Judith. “China’s Manufacturing Employment and Compensation Costs: 2002-06.” Monthly Labor Review; April 2009.

LeVine, Steve and Roberts, Dexter. “China’s Doubts About the Dollar.” Business Week. June 8, 2009.
Li, Poland and Frost, Stephen. “Chinese Worker’s Rights in an Economic Crisis?” CSR Asia Weekly, Vol.5 , Week 6. February 11, 2009.

Mackinnon, Mark. “Jobless, Restless China; 20 Million and Growing.” Globe and Mail; February 20, 2009. www.theglobeandmail.com.

Mitchell, Tom. “Daunting Departure.” Financial Times; January 7, 2009. www.ft.com.

New Internationalist. “Hu’s who: Just who is running the show in China?” June 2009.

New Internationalist. “The Next Dynasty.” New Internationalist. June 2009.

Paperny, Anna Mehler. “China’s Migrant Workers Cut Loose: Usual Trip Home for Lunar New Year Has and Ominous Flavor, With Many Lost Urban Jobs.” San Francisco Chronicle; January 23, 2009.

Pettis, Michael. “Will China Have to Choose Between Social Stability and Long-Term Growth?”. China’s Financial Markets; February 9, 2009. http://mpettis.com/.

Richards, Chris. “Made in China.” New Internationalist. June 2009.

Roberts, Dexter. “China Rethinks the American Way.” Business Week. June 15, 2009.

Roberts, Dexter and Balfour, Frederik. “China’s Shopping Spree.” Business Week. July 27, 2009.

Roberts, Dexter. “China’s Stimulus Goes to Work.” Business Week. May 18, 2009.

Roberts, Dexter. “Where the Action Is in China: As growth slows along the coast, more companies are targeting the booming the southwest.” Business Week. June 22, 2009.

Scissors, Derek. Deng Undone: The Costs of Halting Market Reform in China. Foreign Affairs. May/June 2009.

Shallat, Lezak. “The Cultural Crusades.” New Internationalist. June 2009.

U.S. Daily Labor Report. “China’s New Labor Law Falling By Wayside Amid Financial Crisis.” February 24, 2009. www.bna.com/products/labor/dir.htm.

Van Til, Tabasum. Human Rights, Chinese Business: How China’s Transnational State-Owned Enterprises Fit Into International Human Rights Law. University of Utrecht, May 2009. http://ungcdocuments.googlegroups.com.

Warner, Marion and Bair, Jennifer. “After Sweatshops? Apparel Politics in the Circum-Caribbean.” NACLA Report on the Americas: Volume 42, No. 4. July/August 2009.

Weiskel, Lucia-Green. Building Carbon Inventories in China. The Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation, Business for Social Responsibility, and The Climate Registry. June 2009. http://bsr.org/research/reports.cfm.

Wen, Dale Jiajun. Climate Change and China: Technology, Market, and Beyond. Focus on the Global South: Occasional Paper 6. February 2009. www.focusweb.org.

Wheatley, Alan. “Why China Will Keep Investing Abroad.” The New York Times; July 21, 2009. www.nytimes.com.

Wheatley, Alan. “The China Price Starts to Grind Lower Once More.” Reuters; March 1, 2009.

Wong, May. Development and Trends in the Chinese Garment and Textile Industry. MFA+3. Hong Kong, September 2008.

Yongding, Yu. The Management of Cross-Border Management Flows and Macroeconomic Stability in China. Third World Network. Global Economy Series 2009. http://twnside.org.sg.

York, Geoffrey. “World: Beijing’s Footprint—Iraq, Sudan, Angola, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.” Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Investment Policy Reviews: China 2008. January 3, 2009. www.theglobeandmail.com.

Yu, Au Loong. Disposable Labour—Chinese Labour Under Economic Downturn. Globalization Monitor. February 24, 2009. www.globalmon.org.hk.

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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