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Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains : The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice.

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Main Author: Saage-Maaß, Miriam.
Other Authors: Zumbansen, Peer., Bader, Michael., Shahab, Palvasha.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights Series
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Table of Contents:
  • EditorsTransnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 978-3-030-73835-8_Chapter_1
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  • Part I: The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and Its Aftermath: Litigations, Campaigning and Transnational Collaboration
  • Loss and Legibility: A Conversation with Saeeda Khatoon
  • Legal Interventions and Transnational Alliances in the Ali Enterprises Case: Struggles for Workers ́Rights in Global Supply Ch...
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Context of the Ali Enterprises Factory Fire Litigation
  • 2.1 The South Asian Textile Industry and Europeś Enduring Imperial Way of Life
  • 2.2 The Law of Global Value Chains
  • 2.2.1 International Trade Law
  • 2.2.2 Commercial and Company Law
  • 2.3 Critical Perspectives on the Law
  • 2.4 Legal Avenues for Those Affected by Human Rights Violations in Global Supply Chains
  • 2.4.1 Multiple Jurisdictions
  • 2.4.2 Expansion of the Legal Doctrines on Parent Company and Supply Chain Liability
  • 2.4.3 Liability of Social Auditors
  • 3 The Ali Enterprises Factory Disaster and the Litigation That Followed
  • 3.1 The Building of Transnational Alliances
  • 3.2 The Litigation Against KiK: Procedure and Key Legal Arguments
  • 3.3 The Legal Interventions Against the Social Auditing Firm RINA
  • 4 Objectives and Achievements of the Transnational Legal Interventions in the Wake of the Ali Enterprises Fire
  • 4.1 Self-empowerment
  • 4.2 Intervention in the Legal Discourse
  • 4.3 Intervention in the Public Discourse
  • 5 The Emancipatory Potential of Legal Interventions: Towards a Holistic Approach
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Paradoxes of Strategic Labour Rights Litigation: Insights from the Baldia Factory Fire Litigation
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Story of the Legal Proceedings: Hope, Victories and Disenchantments.
  • 2.1 Public Interest Constitutional Litigations
  • 2.1.1 Constitution Petition No. 3318 of 2012
  • 2.1.2 Relief
  • 2.1.3 Identification of Unclaimed Bodies
  • 2.1.4 Judicial Commission and Compensations
  • 2.1.5 Inspection and Surveys of Factories and Establishments
  • 2.2 Constitution Petition No. 295 of 2013
  • 2.2.1 Labour Law Violations
  • 2.2.2 Building Code Violations
  • 2.2.3 RINA and Private Inspections
  • 2.3 Criminal Case: A Comedy of Horrors
  • 2.3.1 Act 1: The Illusive Hope
  • 2.3.2 Act 2: The Comedy
  • 2.3.3 Act 3: The Tragedy
  • 2.4 Labour Law Reform, ILO Settlement and Socio-Cultural Mobilisation: The Irresistibility of Hope
  • 3 Strange Bedfellows: Law, Disorder, Power Relations and Anarchic Justice
  • 4 Strategic Labour Rights Litigation: Tactical Victories, Strategic Possibilities, Structural Improbabilities
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References
  • After the Ali Enterprises Fire: Occupational Safety and Health and Workers ́Organising-A Conversation with Zehra Khan About Cu...
  • Pakistanś ``Industrial 9/11:́́ Transnational Rights-Based Activism in the Garment Industry and Creating Space for Future Glob...
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Looking Back: The Formation of a Transnational Coalition and the Case Against KiK
  • 3 Mapping the Effects of Pakistanś ``Industrial 9/11 ́́in Germany and Pakistan
  • 3.1 Changing the Discourse on Exploitation in Global Value Chains: medico and ECCHRś Perspectives from Germany
  • 3.2 Accessing Transnational Partnerships: NTUFś Perspective from Pakistan
  • 4 The Path Forward: From Fighting for Corrective Justice in the Tragedy to Challenging the ``Normalcy ́́of Global Exploitation
  • 4.1 Continuing to Push for Better Working Conditions and Challenging the ``Imperial Way of Life ́́
  • 4.2 Discursive Intervention: Influencing the Terms of Debate.
  • 4.3 Advocacy and Lobbying: Moving from Corporate Social Responsibility to Binding Law
  • 4.4 Strengthening Global and Local Trade Unions
  • 5 Conclusions: The Task of Holding Space for Those Yet to Come
  • The Land of Mourning: A Conversation with Adeela Suleman
  • Four Against KiK: A Conversation with Caspar Dohmen
  • Part II: Labour and Tort Law Aspects of Global Supply Chains
  • The Rana Plaza Collapse and the Case for Enforceable Agreements with Apparel Brands
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Contemporary Garment Industry Worldwide and in South Asia
  • 2.1 The Globalised Garment Industry and Buyer Pressure
  • 2.2 The Garment Industry in Bangladesh and Pakistan
  • 2.3 South Asia as a Hotspot Demonstrating the Limits of the CSR Industry
  • 3 Negotiated Brand Agreements
  • 3.1 CGT-Fruit of the Loom Agreement (Honduras)
  • 3.2 Indonesia Freedom of Association Protocol
  • 3.3 Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety
  • 3.4 Bargaining with Lead Firms
  • 4 Supply Chain Compensation Fund Agreements
  • 4.1 Rana Plaza Compensation Agreement (Bangladesh)
  • 4.2 Tazreen Claims Administration Trust (Bangladesh)
  • 4.3 Ali Enterprises Arrangement (Pakistan)
  • 4.4 Delivering Compensation with Lead Firms
  • 5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Trade Union Approaches to Global Value Chains: The Indonesian Experience
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 International Framework Agreements as a Unique Trade Union Approach
  • 3 Indonesian Freedom of Association Protocol
  • 3.1 Content of the Freedom of Association Protocol: Protection of Trade Union Rights
  • 3.2 Scope of Application
  • 3.3 Factors That Promote Strong Trade Union Rights in the Formation Phase
  • 3.3.1 Public Awareness Due to Intensive Campaigning Around a Mega Sports Event
  • 3.3.2 Why the Topic of Freedom of Association?
  • 3.3.3 Strong Support from Different Actors.
  • 3.3.4 A Neutral Facilitator as a Central Factor for Success
  • 4 Low Involvement of Global Union Federations
  • 5 Implementing the Freedom of Association Protocol
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Transnational Labour Law? ``Corporate Social Responsibility ́́and the Law
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Transnational Enterprises, ILO and CSR
  • 2.1 Labour Standards in CSR Policies
  • 2.2 Dissemination of CSR Policies
  • 2.3 CSR Instruments and Actors
  • 2.4 Beyond ILO Core Labour Standards
  • 3 CSRś Authority and Effectiveness
  • 3.1 Monitoring, Auditing and Certification
  • 3.2 Complaint Mechanisms in Transnational Production Networks
  • 4 CSR in Relation to International and National Law
  • 4.1 Privatisation of International Law?
  • 4.2 The Competition Between Private Standards and National Law in the Global South
  • 4.2.1 The Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety
  • 4.2.2 Cambodia and Myanmar: National Arbitration Councils
  • 4.3 Transnational Labour Law?
  • 4.4 The Role of National Law in the Global North
  • 5 Summary
  • References
  • Tort Law and Human Rights
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Imagine: A Global Legal System
  • 2.1 Legal Unity, Economic Diversity
  • 2.2 The Tort Law Problems of Human Rights Violations
  • 2.3 The Optimal Legal Solution
  • 3 The Real World: Fragmentation of Legal Systems, Divergent Standards
  • 3.1 Legal Fragmentation
  • 3.2 Broad Externalisation
  • 4 An Easy Fix? Global Application of National Tort Law
  • 4.1 Globalising National Law
  • 4.2 The Overlap Between Tort Law and Human Rights
  • 4.3 Pathways Towards Global Application
  • 4.4 Discriminatory Liability and the Virtues of Restraint
  • 5 Production Liability as an Alternative Regime of Choice of Law
  • 6 Duties of Care Across the Supply Chain
  • 6.1 The Entity Limitation
  • 6.2 Human Rights Due Diligence as an Intermediate Solution
  • 7 Enforcement: Public or Private?.
  • 8 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part III: Critical Perspectives on Law and Litigation
  • Confined Employment: Exploring Labor Marginalization in Workplace Safety
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The Task Ahead
  • 1.2 Homo sacer: Workers in South Asian Textile Industries
  • 2 A Fire Raging Through Missed Chances: The Persisting Disjunct Between Practical Reality and Legal Fiction
  • 2.1 Legislative and Factual Background of the Ali Enterprises Factory Fire
  • 2.2 Recent Developments and Continuing Non-enforcement
  • 3 Colonial Legacy: History of the Factories Act
  • 4 Ruse of Development: Core, Periphery and Global Production
  • 4.1 Pakistan: Postcolony in the Global Political Economy
  • 4.2 Rising Trade Liberalisation and Falling Worker Safety: Pakistan Since the Cold War
  • 4.3 Utopian Aspirations and Dystopian Actions
  • 5 Incarcerated on the Outside: The Contractual Worker-Legality Versus Reality
  • 5.1 Use and Abuse: Legal Protections Versus Contracts
  • 5.2 The Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • The KiK Case: A Critical Perspective from the South
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Labour Law as a Departure from Private Law
  • 2.1 Labour Law as a Departure from State and Courts
  • 2.2 Labour Law as a Matter of Policy and Not ``Ethics ́́and ``Morality ́́of Private Law
  • 3 The Nature of International Labour Law in Labour Codes of MNCs
  • 3.1 Avoiding Distributive Justice in Labour Codes
  • 3.2 Diluting ``Labour Representation ́́in Labour Codes
  • 3.3 Labour Codes as a Question of Power and Ideology
  • 4 Private Law in Labour Litigation
  • 5 A Critical Reflection on the KiK and Ali Enterprises Cases
  • References
  • From Strategic Litigation to Juridical Action
  • 1 Critique of Strategic Litigation
  • 1.1 Lack of Ambition
  • 1.2 Depoliticisation
  • 1.3 Advocatory Violence
  • 1.4 Victimological Defensiveness.
  • 2 Juridical Action.

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