Fair trade, corporate accountability and beyond : experiments in globalizing justice / edited by Kate Macdonald, Shelley Marshall.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social governance in a global economy : introduction to an evolving agenda / Kate Macdonald and Shelley Marshall -- Fair trade at the centre of development / Steve Knapp -- Developing markets, building networks : promoting fair trade in Asia / Claribel B. David and Hyun-Seung Anna Kim -- Mainstreaming fair trade : fair trade brands and the problem of ownership / Anna Hutchens -- What gives fair trade its right to operate? Organizational legitimacy and strategic management / Alex Nicholls -- Voluntarism and fair trade / Tim Wilson -- Corporations and global justice : rethinking "public" and "private" responsibilities / Terry Macdonald -- Corporate responsibility and stakeholder governance : relevance to the Australian garment sector / Emer Diviney and Serena Lillywhite -- CSR and policy incoherence / Peter Utting -- Fair consumption? Consumer action on labour standards / Gordon Renouf -- Corporate accountability and the potential for workers' representation in China / Anita Chan -- The threat posed by "corporate social responsibility" to trade union rights / Jeff Ballinger -- Can CSR help workers organize? An examination of the lessons learnt and an exploration of a new way forward / Andrea Maksimovic -- Corporate accountability through community and unions : linking workers and campaigning to improving working conditions across the supply chain / Annie Delaney -- Triangular solidarity as an alternative to CSR and consumer-based campaigning / Apo Leong, Chan Ka-wai and Anna Tucker -- Regional trade agreements in the Pacific Islands : fair trade for farmers? / Nic Maclellan -- Crowding out or ratcheting up? Fair trade systems, regulation and new governance / Orly Lobel -- The regulatory impact of using public procurement to promote better labour standards in corporate supply chains / John Howe -- CSR is not the main game : the renewed domestic response to labour abuses in China / Sean Cooney -- Experiments in globalizing justice : emergent lessons and future trajectories / Kate Macdonald and Shelley Marshall.

As trade and production have increasingly crossed international boundaries, private bodies and governments alike have sought new ways to regulate labour standards and advance goals of fairness and social justice. Governments are harnessing social and market forces to advance corporate accountability, while private bodies are employing techniques drawn from command and control regulation to shape the behaviour of business. This collection brings together the research and reflections of a diverse international mix of academics, activists and practitioners in the fields of fair trade and corporate accountability, representing perspectives from both the industrialized and developing worlds. Contributors provide detailed case studies of a range of social justice governance initiatives, documenting the evolution of established strategies of advocacy and social mobilization, and evaluating the strengths and limitations of voluntary initiatives compared with legally enforceable instruments.