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New Resources from Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network
November 2005MAJOR REPORTS AND NEW RESOURCES ON GLOBAL WORKPLACESMexico- "Economic Opportunities and Challenges posed by China for Mexico and Central America," by Enrique Dussel Peters, 2005. Available at: http://dusselpeters.com - "Unions and Social Benefits in the Maquiladoras," article by Cirila Quintero Ramirez, 2005. Available from: cquintero@riogrande.net.mx - "Trade Unionism on the Northern Mexico Border: Its National and Local Heritage;" and "Effect of Unions in the Mexican Maquiladoras: A comparative analysis between Matamoros and Ciudad Juarez," two papers by Cirila Quintero Ramirez, August 2005. Available from: cquintero@riogrande.net.mx - "Mexican Workers Since NAFTA": "The Escalating Struggles Over Mexico's Labor Law," by Dan LaBotz and Robin Alexander, "The Decline of the Decent Job," by Carlos Salas, "Stories from the Borderlands," by David Bacon, "A Generation of Migrants: Where They Leave, Where They End Up," by Leigh Binford, and "Landmarks in U.S. Immigration Policy," by James T. Kimer," NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 39, No. 1, July/August 2005. Available at: http://www.nacla.org/issue_disp.php?iss=39|1 - "Alcoa's High Tech Sweatshops in Mexico & Honduras: The Race to the Bottom from NAFTA to CAFTA," by the National Labor Committee in New York City, July 2005. Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org - "A Compact for North American Competitiveness: A Strategy for Building Competitiveness Within North America," by U.S. Council of the Mexico-U.S. Council of the Business Committee (MEXUS), a committee of the Council of the Americas, April 2005. Available at: http://www.counciloftheamericas.org/coa/publications/Papers/MEXUS%20Compact%20on%20Competitiveness.pdf - "Health and Safety Rollback in the Maquiladora Industry; Declining health and safety reflects intensified attack on labor rights," by Julia Quinonez and Ricardo Hernandez (of the Comite Fronterizo de Obreros and the American Friends Service Committee, respectively), April 2005. Available at: http://cfomaquiladoras.org - "Cross-Border Campaign Wins Maquila Demands," Citizen Action in the Americas, No. 16, report by the Americas Program of the International Relations Center (IRC), February 2005. Available at: http://www.americaspolicy.org - "Public Communication to the U.S. NAO (National Administrative Office)," submitted by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and twenty labor organizations from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, a legal challenge to Mexican Labor Law Reforms under NAFTA Labor Side Agreement, February 17, 2005. Available at: http:// www.wola.org/economic/nafta_naalc_final_jsv.pdf - "Globalization at the Crossroads, ten years of NAFTA in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region," a report from the Environmental Health Coalition in January 2005. Available at: http://www.environmentalhealth.org - "Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration project," edited by Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey, September 2004. Available at: http://www.russellsage.org - "Downsizing the State: Privatization and the Limits of Neoliberal Reform in Mexico," by Dag MacLeod, May 2004. Available at: http://www.psupress.org China- "New Practices of Labor Organizing: Community-based Organization of Migrant Women Workers in South China," by Pun Ngai, President of the Chinese Working Women Network and Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Available from: Pun Ngai at sonpun@ust.hk - "China Social Compliance For Textile & Apparel Industry: Principles and Guidelines (2005)," by China National Textile & Apparel Council, 2005. Available at: http://www.ctmtc.com/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/InfoContent.html?InfoContent150_action=show&InfoPublish_InfoID=c373e9045b26189d8fefcfdba4e0e475 - Occupational Safety and Health in China, Part I: U.S.-China Symposium on ÔIntegrating Occupational and Environmental Health," by Margaret Quinn, Ken Geiser, and Li Lin, New Solutions, Vol. 15(2) 181-183, 2005. Available at: http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?id=dp6ar65dvqh8h63r - "Occupational Safety and Health in China, Part II: Three-Tier Prevention and Control for Occupational and Agricultural Hazards in Hebei Province," by Xu Ying, Li Lin, Cui Lizheng, and Margaret Quinn, New Solutions, Vol. 15(2) 184-198, 2005. Available at: http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?id=dp6ar65dvqh8h63r - "China: The Colossus Rises," by Asad Ismi, published in Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor, October 2005. Available at: http://www.policyalternatives.ca - "China's ÔPeaceful Rise' to Great-Power Status," by Zheng Bijian, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005, Volume 84, Number 5. Available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/2005/5.html - "China's Global Hunt for Energy," by David Zweig and Bi Jianhai," Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005, Volume 84, Number 5. Available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/2005/5.html - "China's Search for Stability With America," by Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005, Volume 84, Number 5. Available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/2005/5.html - "Understanding China," by Kishore Mahbubani, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005, Volume 84, Number 5. Available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/2005/5.html - "China could become world's largest exporter by 2010," by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) September 2005. Available at: http://www.oecd.org - "OECD Policy Brief: Economic Survey of China, 2005," by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), September 2005. Available at: http://www.oecd.org - "Economic Survey of China, 2005," by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), September 2005. Available at: http://www.oecd.org - "Crushed: A Survey of Work Injuries and Treatment in the Pearl River Delta," by Michael Pareles, China Labor Watch, September 2005. Available at http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/upload/workinjuryreport.pdf - "The Toy Industry in China: Undermining Workers' Rights and Rule of Law," report by China Labor Watch, September 2005. Available at http://www.chinalaborwatch.org - "The Challenge of China—trade union and industrial perspectives," by Josefine Larsson, Research Department of Svenska Metall, August 2005. - "Looking for Mickey Mouse's Conscience – A survey of the working conditions of Disney factories in China," series of reports by the Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) in Hong Kong and the National Labor Committee in New York City in August 2005. Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org - "Disney's Children's Books Made with the Blood, Sweat and Tears of Young Workers in China," report by the National Labor Committee, August 2005. Available at http://www.nlcnet.org or in Chinese at http://www.sacom.org.hk - "Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons," by Pete Engardio, BusinessWeek, August 22-29 2005. Available at: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_34/b3948411.htm - "China & India," Special Report, BusinessWeek, August 22-29, 2005. Available at: http://www.businessweek.com - "Waking Up to Their Rights: A grassroots movement of activists and lawyers is helping increasingly assertive workers get their due," by Dexter Roberts, BusinessWeek, August 22-29, 2005. Available at http://www.businessweek.com - "Land of 74,000 Protests (but Little Is Ever Fixed), by Howard W. French, New York Times, August 24, 2005. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com - "Warning of unrest over income gap," South China Morning Post, August 23, 2005. Available at: http://daga.dhs.org/daga/readingroom/newsclips/2005/wto/ - "The Key to Eliminating Coalmine Accidents is to Get Workers Involved in Monitoring Occupational Health and Safety: Some Thoughts after the 7 August Daxing Mine Disaster," China Labour Bulletin NewsFlash No. 56 (August 16, 2005). Available from http://www.china-labour.org.hk - "China Worries that Foreign NGOs are Importing a Color Revolution," by Central News Agency Reporter Lin Yuguo, Hong Kong, August 6, 2005. Available at http://www.chinalaborwatch.org - "A Chinese City's Rage at the Rich And Powerful: Beating of Student Sparks Riot, Looting," by Edward Cody, Washington Post, August 1, 2005. Available at http://washingtonpost.com - "Chinese Labour Struggles," an interview with Han Dongfang, New Left Review, July/August 2005. Available at http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR26803.shtml - "Global Production and Corporate Business Ethics: Company Codes of Conduct Implementation and its Implication on Labour Rights in China," by Pun Ngai (of Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), China Journal, July 2005. Available from: Pun Ngai at sonpun@ust.hk - "China Warns Citizens It Won't Tolerate Threats to Stability," by Jim Yardley, New York Times, July 31, 2005. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com - "Anger in China Rises Over Threat to Environment," by Howard W. French, New York Times, July 19, 2005. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com - "A Chinese Riot rooted in Confusion: Lacking a Channel for Grievances, Garment Workers Opt to Strike," by Edward Cody, Washington Post Foreign Service, July 18, 2005. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com - "Rural Poor Aren't Sharing in Spoils of China's Changes: Costs of Goods Rise, Standard of Living Falls," by Peter S. Goodman, Washington Post Foreign Service, July 12, 2005. Available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com - "Mao's Legacy in China's Current Development," by Pao-yu Ching, June 28, 2005. Available at: http://www.chinastudygroup.org/article/113 - "Workplace Safety in China," China Labour E-Bulletin No. 26 (June 20, 2005) from the China Labour Bulletin in Hong Kong. Available at: http://www.clb.org.hk - "Gender and Global Labor Organizing: Migrant Women Workers of Garment Industry in South China," by Jenny Wai-ling Chan, May 2005. Available from: Jenny Wai-ling Chan at wlchan@cwwn.org or wailing@hkusua.hku.hk - "'Easy to Manage': A report on Chinese Toy Workers and the Responsibility of the Companies" by Kristina Bjurling of SwedWatch and the Fair Trade Centre, in Sweden, May 2005. Available at: http://www.swedwatch.org - "Kingmaker Footwear (Timberland made in China), report by China Labor Watch in New York City, May 2005. Available at: http://www.chinalaborwatch.org - "Alcoa Joint Venture with Chinese General," by National Labor Committee, July 2002, updated March 2005. Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org/news/5_AlcoaChinaComplete.pdf - "New Points of Production: Homework and Shoemaking in Asia," by Pia Markkanen and Charles Levenstein, New Solutions, Vol. 14(4) 301-318, 2004. Available at: http://baywood.metapress.com - "The Changing Nature of Corporate Global Restructuring: the Impact of Production Shifts on Jobs in the U.S., China, and Around the Glove," a report for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, by Kate Bronfenbrenner and Stephanie Luce, October 2004. Available at: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/international/downloads/News/UsccCornell-umassReport.pdf - "My Journey to Hong Kong and China: A labor activist and sweatshop worker revisits his home country," by Lee Siu Hin, Z Magazine, July/August 2004. Available at: http://zmagsite.zmag.org/JulAug2004/hin0804.html - "Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China," by Pun Ngai, Gender and Development Vol. 12, No. 2, July 2004. Available at: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/resources/downloads/gendevtrade-5.pdf - "China's Distribution Service Market Entering Phase of Full-Scale Opening," by Tatsuki Onda, Nomura Research Institute, May 2004. Available at: http://www.nri.co.jp/english/opinion/papers/2004/pdf/np200476.pdf USA- "Occupational Medicine: the Case For Reform," article by Joseph LaDou, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005. Available at: http://occ-env-med.mc.duke.edu/oem/ladou.htm - "Truth and Consequences of Offshoring: Recent studies overstate the benefits and ignore the costs to American workers," by L. Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute, 2005. Available at: http://epinet.or - "Reinforcing the Seams: Guaranteeing California's Landmark AntiSweatshop Law, An Evaluation of Assembly Bill 633 Six years Later," report by Sweatshop Watch and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, September 2005. Available at: http://www.swatshopwatch.org/ - "Not Walking the Talk: DuPont's Untold Safety Failures," report by the United Steelworkers International Union, September 2005. Available at: http://www.uswa.org - "Globalization: Numerous Federal Activities Complement U.S. Business's Global Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts," report by U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), September 7, 2005. Available at: http://www.gao.gov - "Immigrant Workers at Risk: The Urgent Need for Improved Workplace Safety and Health Policies and Programs," by AFL-CIO, August 2005. Available at: http://www.aflcio.org - "Free and Fair?: How Labor Law Fails U.S. Democratic Election Standards," report by Gordon Lafer, American Rights at Work, June 2005. Available at: http://www.americanrightsatwork.org - "A Systematic Approach to Occupational and Environmental Health," by Skip Spitzer, Rachel's Environment & Health News #817, May 12, 2005. Available at: http://www.rachel.org - "Freedom Denied: Forced Labor in California," by Human Rights Center, University of California Berkeley, February 2005. Available at: http://www.hrcberkeley.org - "Crisis or Opportunity? The Future of Los Angeles' Garment Workers, the Apparel Industry and the Local Economy," report by Sweatshop Watch and Garment Worker Center, November 2004. Available at: http://www.sweatshopwatch.org - "The McDonaldization of Society," book by George Ritzer, identifies the four rationalist principles of efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control, describes how they have become nearly ubiquitous through society, notes dehumanization, January 2004. Available at: http://www.pineforge.com - "The Rise and Fall of Occupational Medicine the United States," by Joseph LaDou, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2002. Available at: http://www.sfms.org/sfm/sfm104b.htm Occupational health and safety- "Introductory Report: Decent Work – Safe Work," report from the International Labor Organization released in April is a global status report on workplace safety and health around the world. It has the latest statistics and analysis of trends, most of them not good. Available at: http://www.ilo.org/publns - "Working for Life: Sourcebook on Occupational Health for Women," is published by the Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC) in Hong Kong is a "how-to" manual for women workers and unionists to "develop action-oriented strategies based on the realities in their own workplace." Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk - "Prevention: A global strategy: Promoting Safety and Health at Work," the International Labour Organization Report for World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Geneva, 2005. Available at: http://www.ilo.org - "Organising for Health and Safety: A TUC Resource for use in the workplace," by Trades Union Congress (TUC), September 2005. Available at: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-10626-f0.cfm - "OSH Disparities in Developing Countries; The SH&E professional as an agent of change," by Michael Findley and June Gorski, in the April 2005 issue of "Professional Safety," journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE). Available at: http://www.asse.org - "Occupational Health and Safety and the Poorest: Final report of a consultancy for the Department for International Development," by Francie Lund and Anna Marriott, School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, March 31, 2005. Available from: Francie Lund at lundf@ukzn.ac.za and Anna Marriott at 204507782@ukzn.ac.za - "Enlarging the power of occupational safety and health in the European Union," by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2004 annual report. Available at: http://agency.osha.eu.int/OSHA Reports from factories around the world- "Public Report for the period July 2004 – August 2005," by the Independent Monitoring Team of Honduras (EMIH), September 29, 2005. Available from: EMI Honduras - "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment of Easy Group (Mariveles/ BEZ, Philippines): Easy Fashion Corporation, Allen Garments, & Kasumi Apparel Ltd. Corporation," by Worker Rights Consortium, September 20, 2005. Available at: http://www.workersrights.org - "Lear in Honduras: Violation of Workers' Rights and Below-Subsistence Wages," by National Labor Committee, July 2005. Available at http://www.nlcnet.org - "Alcoa's Sweatshops in Honduras," by the National Labor Committee in New York City, July 2005. Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org - "NFL and NBA Workers in Honduras," by the National Labor Committee in New York City, July 2005. Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org - "Auto Parts Workers in Nicaragua Denied their rights & Paid just 41 cents an hour," by the National Labor Committee in New York City, July 2005. Available at: http://www.nlcnet.org - "'Easy to Manage': A report on Chinese Toy Workers and the Responsibility of the Companies" by Kristina Bjurling of SwedWatch and the Fair Trade Centre, in Sweden, May 2005. Available at: http://www.swedwatch.org - "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: The Cut Flower Industry," Case Study, Northern Sierra of Ecuador, by Norma Mena and Silvia Proano, for the International Labor Rights Fund, April 2005. Available at: http://www.laborrights.org/publications/Sexual%20harassment%20Ecuador.pdf - "Assessment of PT Busana Prima Global, Gunung Putri, Bogor, Indonesia," by Mr. Fransiskus X. Supiarso, Independent Investigator, March 31, 2005. Available at: http://www.oxfam,org.au/campaigns/nike/action/busanaprima.html - "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment at Far East Garment Textile and First Apparel (Thailand)," by Worker Rights Consortium, February 8, 2005. Available at: http://www.workersrights.org - "Tae Hwa Indonesia – a case study of labour conditions in the sportswear industry," by the Play Fair at the Olympics campaign (Oxfam, Global Unions, Clean Clothes Campaign), August 2004. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/04-09-fila_casestudy.pdf Globalization issues- "What Do Wal-Mart's Low Prices Mean for Women Globally?," by STITCH. Available at: http://www.stichonline.org/archives/womenandwalmart.asp - "Research on Garment Industry subcontracting Chains In Nine Countries," by women Working Worldwide. Available at: http://www.poptel.org.uk/women-ww - "Fact Sheet #1: Multi-Fibre Arrangement," "Fact Sheet #2: Glossary," "Fact Sheet #3: Proposed Program of Action: Fair Labour Practices in the Post Quota World," Fact Sheet #4: The Cambodia Experiment," Fact Sheet #5: What Does CAFTA Mean for the Central American Garment Industry?," by Maquila Solidarity Network. Available at: http://www.maquilasolidarity.org - "Mapping the End of the MFA," report by AccountAbility. Available at: http://www.accountability.org.uk - "Managing the Transition to a Responsible Global Textiles and Garment Industry," report by AccountAbility, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and the World Bank. Available at: http://www.accountability.org.uk - "The Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) Strategic Sourcing Impact: The Private Sector Perspective," report on results of a BSR survey of company views on the effect of the phase-out on future sourcing decisions. Available at: http://www.accountability.org.uk - " Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: the Anti-sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice," by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, 2005. Available at http://wox.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/4/464 - "Asian multinationals in Africa: Information and strategy guide," "Organising and Campaigning: Developing union strategy and capacity," and "A story of organizing: A shopfloor workbook," a booklet series for garment workers in Africa, by IRENE, CSRSC, SOMO, EED and FNV, 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/05-africa-booklet.htm - "A Global Alliance Against Forced Labour," by International Labour Organization, 2005. Available at: http://www.ilo.org - "Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power," book by Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark, 2005. Available at: http://www.globalexchange.org - "Pushing Back... Workers Speak Out on Free Trade," book from STITCH: Women Organizing for Worker Justice, Chicago, IL, 2005. Available at: http://www.stitchonline.org - "Challenging the Chip: labor rights and environmental justice in the global electronics industry," book edited by Ted Smith, David Sennenfeld and David Pellow, Temple University Press, 2005. Available at: http://www.svtc.org - "We Can Change the World," book by David Stratman, New Democracy Books, Boston, 2005. Available at: http://www.newdemocracyworld.org - "Asian Transnational Corporation Outlook 2004: Asian TNCs, workers, and the movement of capital," by Asian Transnational Corporation Monitoring Network and Asian Monitor Resource Center, 2005. Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk/ - "Struggle for Justice: Workers' Compensation Systems in the Asia Pacific Region," by Asia Monitor Resource Centre, 2005. Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk/ - "CSR issues in the ICT hardware manufacturing sector," report by Irene Schipper and Esther de Haan, SOMO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005. Available at: http://www.somo.nl - "Blood , Sweat & Tears: Asia's Poor build U.S. Bases in Iraq," by David Phinney, CorpWatch, October 3, 2005. Available at: http://www.corpwatch.org - "The Price of a Sample," by Joseph McCafferty, CFO, August 2005. Available at: http://www.cfo.com - "Wages in Turkey's Textiles and Garment Sector" and "Overtime and Excessive Overtime in the Turkey garment industry," by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights, July 2005. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org/pub/turkey.shtml - "Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America: 1994-2004," by Gilette Hall and Harry Anthony Patrinos, The World Bank, July 2005. Available at: http://www.worldbank.org - "Overtime and excessive overtime: Legal requirements, compliance situations and opportunities for the Turkish (Istanbul) garment industry," by Sjef Stoop, Fair Wear Foundation, submitted July 2005 for a Jo-In seminar at MIT Boston. Available at: http://www.fairwear.nl - "Trade Union Statement to the Gleneagles G8 summit," by the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), July 2005. Available at: http://www.tuac.org/statemen/communiq/StG8Gleneagles2005_E_Whp.pdf - "After the FTAA; Lessons from Europe for the Americas," report by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC., June 2005. Available at: http://www.ips-dc.org - "Trade Wars – Revenge of the Myth: Deals for Trade Votes Gone Bad," report by Public Citizen, June 2005. Available at: http://www.citizen.org - "In the Balance: Why Debts Must be Cancelled Now to Meet the Millennium Development goals," joint NGO briefing paper by Jubilee Debt Campaign, ActionAid UK and Christian Aid, June 2005. Available at: http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk - "Central American Sugar Reports: Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica reports," by the International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF), June 29, 2005. Available at: http://www.laborrights.org/projects/linklabor/index.html - "Manufacturing Global Challenges and Opportunities," by Ian Brinkley, chief Economist, Trades Union Congress (TUC), United Kingdom, June 28, 2005. Available at: http://www.tuc.org.uk - "The Wal-Mart Effect: The World Trade Organization and the Race to the Bottom," by Ellen Israel Rosen, Chapman Law Review v. 8 (Spring 2005) p. 261-282. Available at: http://www.laborstandards.org - "Defending Sweatshops: Too Much Logic, Too Little Evidence," by Richard Rothstein, Spring 2005. Available at: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/articles/sp05/rothstein.htm - "Real Aid: An Agenda for Making Aid Work," report by ActionAid International, May 2005. Available at: http://www.actionaid.org - "Building International Solidarity: African Asian Networking," Report on the Solidarity Workshop for African Garment workers held in Swaziland, by the Clean Clothes Campaign, May 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/pub.htm - "The Real Pirates of the Caribbean: U.S. High Tech Industry's False CFTA Promises Disguise Bad Policy," by Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WASHTECH), Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), and American Ingenuity Alliance (AIA), May 2005. Available at: http://www.washtech.org/reports/pirates/PiratesOfTheCaribbean.pdf - "Gender and Labour Codes in Export Value Chains," paper by Stephanie Barrientos, DFID Labour Standards and Poverty Forum, April 2005. Available from: info@maquilasolidarity.org - "The Good Neighbor Policy—A History to Make Us Proud," by Tom Barry, Laura Carlsen, and John Gershman, April 2005. Available at http://www.irc-online.org - "Global Supply Chains and the world of Capitalist Work," by Chang Dae-oup, Asian Labour Update Issue Number 54, January – March 2005. Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk - "Textile and apparel sourcing: the complexity behind low-cost labour in supply chains," by Dennis Arnold, Asian Labour Update Issue Number 54, January – March 2005. Available at: http://www.amrc.org.hk - "Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Labor Markets in Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia, and South Africa," edited by Tony Virgan, L. Josh Bivens and Srah Gammage, Economic Policy Institute, Global Policy Network, March 2005. Available at: http://www.epinet.org - "NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Cases: Lessons for the Central America Free Trade Agreement," report by Public Citizen, February 2005. Available at http://www.citizen.org - "Trade Union Guide to Globalisation," by ICFTU, January 2005. Available at - http://www.icftu.org/pubs/globalisation - "Garment Industry Supply Chains: a resource for worker education and solidarity," by Women Working Worldwide, 2004. Available at: http://www.poptel.org.uk/women-ww/resources.html - "Womens's work in Export Processing Zones and in the informal economy," report by Sudwind, German CCC, 2004. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/05-01-25.htm - "Auto Report 2004," by International Metalworkers' Federation, 2004. Available at: http:// www.imfmetal.org/main/files/AR2004_english.pdf - "Behind the Brand Names: Working Conditions and Labour Rights in Export Processing Zones," report by ICFTU, December 2004. Available at: http://www.icftu.orgwww/PDF/EPZreportE.pdf - "Understanding ÔGlobalization' as a Determinant of Health Determinants: A Critical Perspective," by Jerry M. Spiegel, Ronald Labonte, and Aleck S. Ostry, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, V. 10, N. 4, October/December 2004. Available at: http://www.ijoeh.com/archive_01.html "Globalization and the Health of the Health Care Workforce," by Annalee Yassi, Gustav J. Wickstrom, and Marisa Palacios, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, V. 10, N. 4, October/December 2004. Available at: http://www.ijoeh.com/archive_01.html - "The Changing Nature of Corporate Global Restructuring: the Impact of Production Shifts on Jobs in the U.S., China, and Around the Glove," a report for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, by Kate Bronfenbrenner and Stephanie Luce, October 2004. Available at: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/international/downloads/News/UsccCornell-umassReport.pdf - "Attracting FDI through the Spread of Free Trade Agreements: Unravelling the Rationale and Impact on Labour Conditions in ASEAN," by Dennis Arnold (of Thai Labour Campaign) and Asian TNC Monitoring Network, May 2004. Available from http://www.thailabor.org Codes of conduct- "Workers' tool or PR ploy? A guide to codes of international labour practice," by Ingeborg Wick; Sudwind Institute, 4th revised edition; 2005; available at: www.cleanclothes.org - "MFA Forum Updates," from the Maquila Solidarity Network. Available at: http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/resources/post_mfa/MFA%20Forum/framework.htm - "CSR Training: Corporate Social Responsibility, From Ideas to Action," an introductory course by CSR Asia in Hong Kong, December 2-3 2005. http://www.csr-asia.com - "Brand Campaigns & Worker Organizing: Lessons from Lesotho, Thailand and Honduras," profiling three successful brand campaigns that helped defend workers' right to organize, by Maquila Solidarity Network, October 2005. Available from: info@maquilasolidarity.org - "WTO Panel Condemns Breaks for Some Firms," by the Associated Press, September 2005. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com - Global NGO Coalition calls for tighter regulation of multinational corporations: Five Year Review by OECD Watch concludes OECD Guidelines are failing to deliver corporate accountability," by OECD Watch, September 2005. Available at: http://www.oecdwatch.org "Codes Memo," Number 19, examines developments in voluntary codes of conduct, as well as government action on corporate social responsibility and labour rights, by Maquila Solidarity Network, September 2005. Available at: http://www.maquilasolidarity.org - "Sweatshop Workers on Four Continents Sue Wal-Mart in California Court," Press Release contact: Ira Arlook, September 13, 2005. Available at: http://laborrights.org/press/wal-Mart/lawsuit_pressrelease_091305.htm - "Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement," edited by Deborah Eade (Editor of the Development in Practice Journal) and Alan Leather (Deputy Secretary General of Public Services International), July 2005. Available at: http://www.kpbooks.com - "Variations in codes of conduct," "Wages in the Apparel industry: what constitutes a Decent Standard," "Work hours, overtime and codes of conduct," and "Report of MIT / Jo-In Forum, July 11th and 12th, 2005," by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights, July 2005. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org/pub/turkey.shtml - "2004 Social Responsibility Report," by Gap Inc., July 2005. Available at: http://www.gapinc.com - "The Play Fair at the Olympics Campaign: an evaluation of the company responses," by Jeroen Merk, Clean Clothes Campaign, ICFTU, Oxfam, June 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/campaign/olympics2004-eval-company-response.htm - "Collaborative Framework and Research Reports," on the predicted impacts of the elimination of import quotas for the apparel and textile sectors on January 1, 2005, by the MFA Forum, June 2005. Available at: http://www.mfaforum.org - "Low pay, factory needs defeat efforts to limit OT: Nike says it's trying to prevent overtime abuse, but workers seek out the extra hours to survive," by Richard Read, June 2005. Available at: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1119089300131700.xml&col=7 - "Report of Jo-In / ILO Technical meeting of social auditors operating in Turkey, May 18th, 2005" by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights, May 2005. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org/pub/turkey.shtml - "Quick fix or lasting solution? Dealing responsibly with typical non-compliance," Ethical Trade: shaping a new agenda, Briefing paper No. 1, by Ethical Trading Initiative, May 2005. Available at: http://www.ethicaltrade.org - "Draft Code of Labour Practice," by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights," May 2005. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org - "The Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI): A Critical Perspective," by the Clean Clothes Campaign, May 2005. Available at: : http://www.cleanclothes.org/codes/05-05-bsci-report.htm - "Fair Purchasing Practices? Some Issues for Discussion," by Jeroen Merk, paper written for CCC Round Table on Purchasing Practices in London, May 11, 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/05-05-purchasin_practices.htm - "Corporate Responsibility Report: Part I," by Nike, Inc, April 2005. Available at: http://www.nikeresponsibility.com - "2nd ICT Round Table Guadalajara, Mexico: strategies for campaigning," organized by SOMO and Cereal, April 2005. Available at: http://www.somo.nl or http://www.sjsocial.org/fomento/ - "Guias de Buenas Practicas de Contratacion, Terminacion, Procedimientos Disciplinarios y Solucion de Quejas," by Fair Labor Association, April 2005. Available at: www.fairlabor.org/all/reports/FLA_GGP_v2-0_esp.pdf - "Gender and Labour Codes in Export Value Chains," by Stephanie Barrientos, DFID Labour Standards and Poverty Forum, April 2005. Available from: info@maquilasolidarity.org - "Action research in the garment sector in Southern and Eastern Africa," by Esther de Haan of Center for research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and Michael Koen of Civil Society research and Support Collective (CSRSC), March 2005. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/publications/05-03-africa_action_research.htm - "Report of the Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Right: report of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and related business enterprises with regard to human rights," by the 61st Commission on Human Rights, February 2005. Available at: http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/sessions/61/lisdocs.htm - "Report of the seminar on ÔCampaigning strategies on informal labour in the global garment industry," by the Clean Clothes Campaign, December 2004. Available at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/04-12-informal_labour_seminar_report.pdf - "The Global Garment Industry and Informal Employment: Critical Issues for Labour Rights Advocates," by Nina Ascoly, September 2004. Available at: http://www.lceanclothes.org/publications/04-09-informal_labour_seminar01.htm - "Background Study on Labor Conditions and Social Auditing in the Turkish Garment Industry," by the Joint Initiative on Corporate Accountability and Workers' Rights, July 2004. Available at: http://www.jo-in.org/pub/turkey.shtml November 30, 2005 October 2005 Newsletter list NEW ELECTRONIC RESOURCES - NIOSH and the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work have launched a joint website to improve access to the vast pool of American and European resources. The website is: www.cdc.gov/niosh/usnetwork - The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and the International Occupational Hygiene Association have launched a joint website to share information from the European agency and the international professional association. The website is: http://eu.ioha.net - "OSHAID International" — Occupational Safety and Health Aid — is a new Australian not-for-profit organization "committed to taking basic occupational health and safety management practices to industries in developing economies."The groups has a newly launched website at www.oshaid.org and is looking for volunteers. Interested OSH professionals should contact OSHAID chair John Ninness at jkninness@optusnet.com.au. - The U.S. EPA has sponsored an independently operated website for information on U.S. and Mexican rules for shipping hazardous wastes. The "Border Compliance Assistance Center" includes info on packaging and labeling, customs regs, ports of entry, motor vehicle and insurance rules in U.S. states, and more. The website is: www.bordercenter.org - All the presentations from the III Conference on Occupational and Environmental Health in the Americas, held in Costa Rice earlier this year, have been posted at: www.saltra.net/americas There are a wealth of very informative and thought-provoking presentations ready for downloading. The website is: www.chinastudygroup.org
April 2004 – March 2005 comprehensive list MAJOR REPORTS AND NEW RESOURCES ON GLOBAL WORKPLACES February 2005 Newsletter Listings: Multi-Fiber Arrangement - Sweatshop Watch, Globalization & the Apparel Industry web page with numerous reports and analysis; www.sweatshopwatch.org - Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) web page with fact sheets, reports and analyses; www.iccr.org - IRC Americas Program, Todd Tucker, "Why CAFTA Can’t Save Central America from the Textile Quota Expiration;" January 2005; www.americaspolicy.org - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), "Disaster Looms with the end of the Quota System," November 2004; www.icftu.org - Sweatshop Watch, "Crisis of Opportunity? The Future of Los Angeles’ Garment Workers, the Apparel Industry and the Local Economy," November 2004; www.sweatshopwatch.org - Ethical Trading Initiative, "MFA Phase-Out: Who gains? Who loses?; October 2004; www.ethicaltrade.org - Asia Monitor Resource Center, Asian Labour Update magazine, special issue on the MFA, Issue No. 52, July-September 2004; www.amrc.org - SUDWING Institute, Sabine Ferenschild and Ingeborg Wick, "Global Game for Cuffs and Collars: The Phase-Out of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing Aggravates Social Divisions," July 2004; www.suedwind-institut.de - Richard Applebaum, "Assessing the Impact of the Phasing Out of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing on Apparel Exports on the Least Developed and Developing Countries," May 2004; posted at www.sweatshopwatcch.org - SOMO, "Bulletin on Issues in Garments and Textiles," No. 5, April 2004; www.somo.nl - Oxfam International, "Stitched Up, How rich country protectionism in textiles and clothing trade prevents poverty alleviation," April 2004; www.oxfam.org - Oxfam Hong Kong, "Turning the Garment Industry Inside Out; Purchasing Practices and Workers’ Lives," April 2004; www.oxfam.org.hk - World Trade Organization, Hildegunn Kyvik Nordas, "The Global Textile and Clothing Industry Post the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing," 2004; www.wto.org - ICFTU, "Disaster looms with the end of the quota system," IDM Autumn 2004, Issue No. 33, November 23, 2004; www.icftu.org - Labor Notes, #311, February 2005; www.labornotes.org Selected Reports and Articles - Environmental Health Coalition, "Globalization at the Crossroads: Ten Years of NAFTA in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region," November 2004; available at: www.environmentalhealth.org - David Bacon, "The Toxic Border," IRC Americas Program, December 2004; available at: www.americaspolicy.org/reports/2004/0412toxic.html - Kathryn Kopinak, editor, "The Social Costs of Industrial Growth in Northern Mexico," Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego; October 2004; available from usmpubs@ucsd.edu - Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, "Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice," 2005; available at: www.antisweatshopmovement.org - Jill Esbenshade, "Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers and the Global Apparel Industry," July 2004; available at: www.temple.edu/tempress - Maquila Solidarity Network, Codes Memo Numbers #17 and #18, Labor Standards Reporting (#17) and Special Issue on Code Compliance Processes (#18), July 2004 and December 2004/January 2005; available at: www.maquilasolidarity.org - Ellen R. Shaffer, Howard Waitzkin, Joseph Bremmer and Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar, "Global Trade and Public Health," American Journal of Public Health, January 2005, Vol. 95, No. 1. - "Project Kaleidoscope, A Collaborative Project to Encourage Sustained Code Compliance," report from 10 project partners including McDonald’s Corporation and the Walt Disney Company; January 2005; available at: www.asyousow.org - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), "Behind the brand names: Working conditions and labour rights in export processing zones," December 2004; available at: www.icftu.org - Verite, "Excessive Overtime in Chinese Supplier factories; Causes, Impacts, and Recommendations for Action," September 2004; available at: www.verite.org - International Forum on Globalization (IFG), "Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible," second edition, October 2004; available at: www.ifg.org - Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, "The Ten Worst Corporations of 2004," December 2004, available from monitor@essential.org Mexico - Huberto Juarez Nunez, "La Industria Maquiladora de Confeccion de Prendas de Vestir en Mexico," Centro de Investigacion y Estudios de Posgrado, Cuidad Universitaria, Puebla; November 2002. - Amnesty International, "Mexico," covering events January — December 2003, Report 2004; available at www.web.amnesty.org/report2004/index-eng - David L. Markell and John H. Knox, editors, "Greening NAFTA: The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation," Stanford University Press, 2003, available from www.sup.org - David Bacon, "The Toxic Border," IRC Americas Program, December 2004; available at: www.americaspolicy.org/reports/2004/0412toxic.html - Kathryn Kopinak, editor, "The Social Costs of Industrial Growth in Northern Mexico," Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego; October 2004; available from usmpubs@ucsd.edu - Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, "Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice," Routledge, September 2004; available at www.antisweatshopmovement.org - Environmental Health Coalition, "Globalization at the Crossroads: Ten Years of NAFTA in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region," 2004; available from www.environmentalhealth.org - James M. Cypher, "Socioeconomic Characteristics and Impacts of Mature Maquilization: Is Mexico at a Turing Point?," paper delivered at the 2004 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association in Las Vegas, Nevada; California State University at Fresno; available from James M. Cypher at jamesc@csufresno.edu - Jonathan Fox, "The Politics of North American Economic Integration," University of California at Santa Cruz, Latin American Research Review, University of Texas Press, Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2004; available at www.utexas.edu/utpress/ - Nuria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde, "Globalization and Health at the United States-Mexico Border," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 93, No. 12, December 2003; available from Nuria Homedes at nhomedes@utep.edu - Benjamin William Mkapa, "Cancun’s False Promise: A View from the South," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004; available at www.foreignaffairs.org - Elaine Michelle Chalmers, "Environmental Crimes Sin Fronteras: The Grave Legacy of Hazardous Waste and Free Trade Along the Texas-Mexico Border," University of Texas at San Antonio, 2004. - Solidarity Center, "Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in Mexico," 2003; available at www.solidaritycenter.org - Gordon H. Hanson, "Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico," NBER Website, Friday, January 28, 2005; available at apers.nber.org/papers/W11027 - FEMAP Foundation, "Profile of the Northern Mexican Border and Indexes of Development, Well Being, and Quality of Life along the Northern Mexican Border, 2004," 2004; available from www.femapfoundation.org - BANAMEX, "The Maquiladora Export Industry: A General and Sectoral Description," Vol. LXXX, No. 946, October 2004; available at www.banamex.com - IRC Americas Program, "Border Clean Energy Advocates Grab for Power," Citizen Action in the Americas, No. 15, December 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org - Human Rights Watch, "Mexico: Workers’ Rights at Risk Under Fox Plan," December 9, 2004; available at www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/12/09/mexico9814.htm - Monica Schurtman, "Los ‘Jonkeados’ and the NAALC: The Autotrim/Customtrim Case and its Implications for Submissions Under the NAFTA Labor Side Agreement," University of Idaho College of Law; available from Monica Schurtman at monicas@uidaho.edu - Kevin P. Gallagher, "Trading away the environment?", September 23, 2004; available at www.sfgate.com/ and www.globalpolicy.org - IRC Americas Program, Kevin P. Gallagher, "Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond," September 17, 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org - IRC Americas Program, Laura Silvan, "Resolving Environmental Problems and Fostering Citizen Participation," October 15, 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org - IRC Americas Program, Marisa Jacott, "Environmental Recommendations Insufficient to Offset Trade Priorities," October 19, 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org - IRC Americas Program, Alexandra Spieldoch, "How Have Women Fared?," December 17, 2004; available at www.americaspolicy.org - TRAC, "Ten Years of Environmental Cooperation in North America," 2004; Americas Program summary available at www.irc-online.org; full report available at www.cec.org/ - Laura Carlsen and Hilda Salazar, "Alternative Proposals for a Sustainable Model of Economic Integration," 2004; available at www.irc-online.org - Comision Economica para America Latina y el Caribe, "Oportunidades y retos economicos de China para Mexico y Centroamerica," September 2004; available at www.cepal.org - Mark Weisbrot, David Rosnick, and Dean Baker, "Getting Mexico to Grow With NAFTA: The World Bank’s Analysis," Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 20, 2004; available at www.cepr.org - Environmental Health Coalition, "Globalization at the Crossroads: Ten Years of NAFTA in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region," November 2004; available at: www.environmentalhealth.org - Maquila Solidarity Network, "Will the NAFTA Side Agreement Hold the Mexican Government Accountable?," documents Puebla NAO complaint, 2005; available at www.maquilasolidarity.org/campaigns/NAO/index.htm - Steven Shrybman, "NAFTA illegal?: CUPW, Council of Canadians, launch constitutional challenge against NAFTA in Ontario Superior Court, January 22, 2005; available at www.straightgoods.com - Chris Hawley, "Mexico’s economic boom fails workers: Many jobless despite bull market," January 10, 2005; available at www.azcentral.com China - ILO, "Globalization and Decent Work — an Employment Agenda for China," 2004; available at: www.ilo.org - Meei-shia Chen and Anita Chan, "Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories," 2003; available from Meei-shia Chen at mschen@mail.ncku.edu.tw and from Anita Chan at anita@coombs.anu.edu.au - IRC Americas Program, Raul Zibechi, "Privatizations: The End of a Cycle of Plundering," November 1, 2004; www.americaspolicy.org
March 15, 2005 - Verite, "Excessive Overtime in Chinese Supplier Factories: Causes, Impacts, and Recommendations for Action," September 2004; www.verite.org - Oxfam, ""Turning the Garment Industry Inside Out: Purchasing Practices and Workers’ Lives," Oxfam Hong Kong Briefing Paper, April 2004; available at www.oxfam.org - Oscar Berger, "Balance is the name of the game: The Legitimacy Seeking of a Chinese Civil Organization and the Existence of a Civil society in China," Lund University Department of Political Science, Spring 2004. - Dr. Robert Scott, Economic Policy Institute, "U.S.-China Trade, 1989-2003: Impact on Jobs and Industries, Nationally and State-by-State," prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, January 11, 2005; available at www.uscc.gov - Leslie T. Chang, "Company Town: In Chinese Factory, Rhythms of Trade Replace Rural Life; New Generation of Migrants, Increasingly Demanding, Powers Giant Shoemaker; A Movie Theater for Workers," Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2004; available at www.wsj.com - Joseph Kahn, "China’s ‘Haves’ Stir the ‘Have Nots’ to Violence," The New York Times, December 31, 2004; available at: www.nytimes.com - Abigail Goldman, "Sweat, Fear and Resignation Amid All the Toys: Despite Mattel’s efforts to police factories, thousands of workers are suffering," Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2004; available at www.latimes.com - Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song, and Qingjie Xia, "Contrasting Paradigms: Segmentation & Competitiveness in the Formation of the Chinese Labour Market," Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Vol. 2 Issue 3, September 2004; abstract available at www.laborstandards.org, full article available at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14765284.asp - Anita Chan, "Globalized Chinese Labors and its Impact on International Labor," paper presented at the Conference on Sharing Experiences and Strategies: Peoples Forum on Labor Rights, March 12-13, 2004; available from Anita Chan at anita@coombs.anu.edu.au - The Solidarity Center, "Justice for All: The Struggle for Worker Rights in China," 2004; available at www.solidaritycenter.org USA - U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform–Minority Staff Special Investigations Division, "A Special Interest Case Study: The Chemical Industry, the Bush Administration, ad European Efforts to Regulate Chemicals," prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman, April 1, 2004; available at www.reform.house.gov/min - Massachusetts AFL-CIO, MassCOSH, and Western MassCOSH, "Dying for Work in Massachusetts: The Loss of Life and Limb in Massachusetts Workplaces," April 28, 2004; available at www.massaflcio.org - AFL-CIO, "Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect: A National and State-by-state Profile of Worker Safety and Health in the United States," 13th Edition, April 2004; available at www.aflcio.org - Environmental Integrity Project and Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, "America’s Dirtiest Power Plants: Plugged into the Bush Administration," May 2004; available at www.environmentalintegrity.org and www.citizen.org - Philip Mattera and Anna Purinton with Jeff McCourt, Doug Hoffer, Stephanie Greenwood and Alyssa Talanker, "Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never-Ending Growth," Good Jobs First, May 2004; available at www.goodjobsfirst.org - Carol Zabin, Arindrajit Dube, and Ken Jacobs, "The Hidden Public Costs of Low-Wage Jobs in California," Center for Labor Research and Education, UC Berkeley; prepared for The National Economic Development and Law Center, May 2004. - Economy Policy Institute, Jared Bernstein, "Minimum Wage and Its Effects on Small Business," testimony given before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Workforce Empowerment and Government Programs, April 29, 2004; available at epinet.org - Jeff Chapman, "Employment and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Recent State Labor Market Trends," May 2004; available at epinet.org - Amy Chasanov, "No Longer Getting By: An Increase in the Minimum Wage is Long Overdue," May 2004; available at epinet.org - sweatshopWATCH, "Free Trade’s Threat to California’s Garment Workers," Fact Sheet A, June 2004; available at www.sweatshopwatch.org - sweatshopWATCH, "Policy Actions for Economic Justice," Fact Sheet B, June 2004; available at www.sweatshopwatch.org - Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello, "Outscource This?: American Workers, the Jobs Deficit, and the Fair Globalization Solution," The North American Alliance for Fair Employment, April 2004; available at FairJobs.org - Economic Policy Institute, Lawrence Mishel and Jared Bernstein, "Income Picture: Weak 2003 labor market leads to lower incomes and higher poverty," August 26, 2004; available at epinet.org - "U.S. and International Job Protection and Enhancement Act," draft October 2004; available at nclnet.org - Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Sylvia Allegretto, "The State of Working America 2004/2005," January 2005; available at epinet.org - U.S. Government Accountability Office, "Safety in the Meat and Poultry Industry, while Improving, Could Be Further Strengthened," January 2005; available at www.gao.gov - Confined Space, "Stronger Inspection and Monitoring by OSHA Recommended In Meatpacking Plants," January 29, 2005; available at spewingforth.blogspot.com/ - Human Rights Watch, "Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants," 2004; available at www.hrw.org Occupational health and safety - International Labor Office, Jeanne Mager Stellman, editor, "Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety," 4th edition 1998; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "The Global Seafarer: Living and Working Conditions in a Globalized Industry," 2004; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Workplace Violence in Services Sectors and Measures to Combat this Phenomenon, 2004; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Guidelines on Safety and Health in Shipbreaking in Asian Countries and Turkey," June 2004; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Security in Ports," June 2004; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, Kimberly Ann Rogers and Duncan Chappell, "Preventing and Responding to Violence at Work," 2003, available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Alcohol and Drug Problems at Work: The Shift to Prevention," 2003, available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Managing Disability in the Workplace," 2003; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "HIV/AIDS and the World of Work," 2002; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Helping Small Businesses Prevent Substance Abuse," 2003; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Safety and Health in the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry," 2003; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Implementing the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work: An Education & Training Manual + CD-ROM," 2002; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Guidelines for the Use of the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumonoconioses," 2002; available atwww.ilo.org/publns - ILO, Benjamin Alli, "Fundamental principles of Occupational Health and Safety," 2001; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Safety in the Use of Synthetic Vitreous Fibre Insulation Wools (Glass Wool, Rock Wool, Slag Wool), 2001; available at www.ilo.org/publns - ILO, "Guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems," 2001; available at www.ilo.org/publns - Andrew Watterson and Rory O’Neill, "The Decline and Imminent Fall of U.K. Governmental Occupational Health: A Tale of Forgotten Lessons and Missed Opportunities," International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Vol. 10, No 3, Jul/Sep 2004; available at www.ijoeh.com - ILO Socio-Economic Security Programme, "Fact Sheet No. 11: Work insecurity," available at www.ilo.org - European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, "Promoting health and safety in European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)," 2004; available at agency.osha.eu.int/sme/ - Melody Kemp, "Working for Life: Sourcebook on Occupational Health for Women," Isis International, 1999; available at www.isiswomen.org - European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, "Quality of the working Environment and Productivity," 2004; available at agency.osha.eu.int/publications/reports/211/en/Quality_Productivity.PDF - European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, "Monitoring occupational safety and health in the European Union," 2003; available at agency.osha.eu.int Reports from workplaces around the world - Bettina Musiolek, "Made in… Eastern Europe: The new ‘fashion colonies,’" 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org - As You Sow Foundation; Center for Reflection, Education and Action; Connecticut State Treasurer’s Office; Domini Social Investments LLC, General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church; Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility; McDonald’s corporation; Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; and The Walt Disney Company; "Project Kaleidoscope: A Collaborative Project to Encourage Sustained Code Compliance," Interim Report, January 2005; available at www.asyousow.org - CAFOD, "Clean Up Your Computer: Midterm Review," available at www.cafod.org.uk/policy_and_analysis/policy_papers/private_sector - ILRF, "Chocolate and Child Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of the Coca Industry, June 2004; available at www.laborrights.org - Human Rights Watch, "Turning a Blind Eye: Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation," June 2004; available at hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf - South East Asia Research Centre, "The Situation of Burmese Migrant Workers in Mae Sot, Thailand," September 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org - Oxfam, Global Unions and the Clean Clothes Campaign, "Tae Hwa Indonesia — a case-study of labour conditions in the sportswear industry," case study on a factory producing mainly for FILA Play Far at the Olypmics, August 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org - China Labor Watch, "Kingmaker Footwear: Timberland made in China," December 2004; available at www.chinalaborwatch.org - Sarah Perman, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), "Behind the brand names: Working conditions and labour rights in export processing zones," December 2004; available at www.icftu.org - National Labor Committee, Education Fund in Support of Worker and Human Rights, "Gildan Production in El Salvador," April 2004; available at www.nlcnet.org - Workers Rights Consortium, "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re PT Panarub (Indonesia): Summary of Findings and Recommendations," September 7, 2004; available at www.workersrights.org - ILO, "Eighth Synthesis Report on the Working Conditions Situation in Cambodia’s Garment Sector, April 2004; available at www.ilo.org - Gap, Inc., "Social Responsibility Report," May 12, 2004; available at www.gapinc.com - Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Unique Garments International Ltd. (Swaziland): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report," November 9, 2004; available at www.workersrights.org - Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Lian Thai Apparel (Thailand): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report," October 1, 2004; available at www.workersrights.org - Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), "Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Far East Garment Textile Ltd. Co. and First Apparel Ltd. Co. (Thailand): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report," February 8, 2005; available at www.workersrights.org - National Labor Committee, "Update: Maternity Leave in Bangladesh," January 13, 2005; available at www.nlcnet.org Codes of Conduct - The Conference Board of Canada, "The National Corporate Social Responsibility Report: Managing Risks, Leveraging Opportunities," a report assessing the CSR management practices of a sample of 53 large Canadian companies, including their public reporting practices, June 2004; available at www.conferenceboard.ca/GCSR/ - AccountAbility and Insight Investment, "Gradient: Promoting Best-Practice Management of Supply Chain Labour Standards," April 2004; available at www.gradient-index.net - Gap, Inc., "Social Responsibility Report," May 12, 2004; available at www.gapinc.com - Asia Monitor Resource Centre Ltd., "A critical guide to corporate codes of conduct," 2004; available at www.amrc.org.uk - The Economist, "The good company: a sceptical look at corporate social responsibility," January 22, 2005; available at www.economist.com - Ray Marshall, The Economic Policy Institute, "Labor Standards Human Capital, and Economic Development," December 23, 2004; available at www.epinet.org - Maquila Solidarity Network, "Codes Memo: Special Issue on Labour Standards Reporting," Number 17, July 2004; available at www.maquilasolidarity.org - Mattel, "Corporate Social Responsibility Report, 2004; available at www.mattel.com/about_us/Corp_Responsibility/cr_csreport.asp - Sabine Ferenschild and Ingeborg Wick, Clean Clothes Campaign, "Global Game for Cuffs and Collars," August 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org/pub.htm - Oxfam, Global Unions and the Clean Clothes Campaign, "Tae Hwa Indonesia — a case-study of labour conditions in the sportswear industry," case study on a factory producing mainly for FILA Play Far at the Olypmics, August 2004; available at www.cleanclothes.org/pub.htm - Samuel Grumiau, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), "Disaster Looms with the Ending of the Quota System," November 2004; available at www.icftu.org/www/PDF/rapporttextilEOK.pdf - Simon Zadek, Harvard Business Review, "The Path to Corporate Responsibility," December 2004; www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0412J - William A. Douglas, John-Paul Ferguson, and Erin Klett, "An Effective Confluence of Forces in Support of Workers’ Rights: ILO Standards, US Trade Laws, Unions and NGOs," Human Rights Quarterly Issue 26 (2004), available at www.laborstandards.org - Stephen F. 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