How credible are international corporate labour codes? Monitoring global production chains

Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 365-383

  Wells, Don ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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