After Rana Plaza: Building coalitional power for labour rights between unions and (consumption-based) social movement organisations

Organization

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 720-740

  Reinecke, Juliane ^a   Donaghey, Jimmy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; control; corporate social responsibility; global supply chains; industrial relations; international trade unionism; labour standards; organizations as brands; private regulation; transnational governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938486002     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508415585028     Document Type: Article

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