Topics Related to Labor & Worker Rights

Published Papers

• Hyllegard, K. H.,Ogle, J. P., & Yan, R-N. (2009). The impact of advertising message strategy - fair labour vs. sexual appeal - upon Gen Y consumers' intent to patronize an apparel retailer. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 13(1).
• Lim, S. and Phillips, J. (2008). Embedding CSR values: The global footwear industry’s evolving governance structure. Journal of Business Ethics, 81, 143–156.
• Park, H., & Dickson, M. A. (2008). Engaging in buyer-seller partnership for fair labor management: The role of a buyer firm's strategic emphasis. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 26(1), 41-56.
• Park, H. & Rees, K. (2008). Motivators of fair labor management and the role of top management in the US clothing/footwear industry. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 12(4), 487 - 501.
• Wendy, D. B., & Joy, M. K. (2008). The exploitation of pregnant workers in apparel production. Journal of Fashion Marketing & Management, 12, 285-293.
• Min, L., & Edwards, P. (2008). Work and pay in small Chinese clothing firms: a constrained negotiated order. Industrial Relations Journal, 39, 296-313.
• Rudell, F. (2006). Shopping with a social conscience: Consumer attitudes toward sweatshop labor. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 24(4), 282-296.
• Powell, B., & Skarbek, D. (2006). Sweatshops and Third World living standards: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat? Journal of Labor Research, 27, 263-274.
• O’Rourke, D. (2006). Multi-stakeholder regulation: Privatizing or socializing global labor standards? World Development, 34 (5), 899-918.
• Mamic, I. (2005). Managing global supply chain: The sports footwear, apparel and retail sectors. Journal of Business Ethics, 59, 81–100.
• Park, H.(2005). The role of idealism and relativism as dispositional characteristics in the socially responsible decision-making process. Journal of Business Ethics, 56 (1), 81-98.
• Dhanarajan, S.(2004). Faster, Longer, Cheaper: The Nexus Between Poor Labour Standards and Supply-Chain Management in the Apparel Industry. European Retail Digest, 43, 43-47.
• Prasad, M., Kimeldorf, H., Meyer, R., and Robinson, I.(2004). Consumers of the world unite: A market-based response to sweatshops. Labor Studies Journal, 29 (3), 57-79.
• Pollin, R., Burns, J., & Heintz, J. (2004). Global apparel production and sweatshop labour: can raising retail prices finance living wages? Cambridge Journal of Economics, 28, 153-171.
• Neef, D. (2004). The Supply Cchcain Impetrative: How to Ensure Ethical Behavior in Your Global Suppliers. American Management Association, New York, NY.
• Arnold, D. G. and Hartman, L. P.(2004), Beyond Sweatshops: Positive Deviancy and Global Labor Practices. Society for Business Ethics, New Orleans, LA.
• O’Rourke, D. (2003). Outsourcing regulation: Analyzing nongovernmental systems of labor standards and monitoring. The Policy Studies Journal, 31 (1), 1-29.
• Pock, M. T. (2003), ‘Public disclosure of the sweatshop practices of American multinational garment/shoe makers/retailers: Impacts on their stock prices’, Competition and Change 7 (1), 23-38.
• Arnold, D.G. and Bowie, N.E. (2003). Sweatshops and Respect for Persons. Business Ethics Quarterly 13 (2), 221-242.
• Jørgensen, H.B., Pruzan-Jørgensen, P.M., Jungk, M., & Cramer, A. (2003). Strengthening Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains.The World Bank, Washington, DC.
• Wolfe, J. H., & Dickson, M. A. (2002). Apparel manufacturer and retailer efforts to reduce child labor: An ethics of virtue perspective on codes of conduct. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 20(4), 183-195.
• Frenkel, S. J. (2001). Globalization, athletic footwear commodity chains and employment relations in China. Organization Studies, 22 (4), 531–562.
• Alvarez, S. M. (2000). The global economy and Kathie Lee: Public relations and Media. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 15 (20) 77-88.
• Dickson, M. A. (2000). US consumers' knowledge of and concern with apparel sweatshops. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 3(1), 44-55.
• Houghteling, C. (1999). Sweat and Tears. Harvard International Review, 21(4), 10.
• White Papers Agents of Change by Suzanne Sontag & Kim Hiller Connell

Publication reviews

Social Responsibility on the Global Market (Littrell & Dickson, 1999), Reviewed by Kate Caroll

Sweatshop USA (Bender & Greenwald, 2003), Reviewed by Marsha Dickson

Making Sweatshops (Rosen, 2002), Reviewed by Suzanne Loker

Web Sources

• Fair Fashion: This site provides information related to the social aspects of garment production and fairer working conditions.
• Business and Human Rights Resource Centre: This site hourly updates news and reports about companies, human rights impacts worldwide, positive and negative.
• Fair Wear Foundation: This site provides information related to labor conditions in the garment industry.

Teaching Resouces

Fashioning an Ethical Industry: This site provides information related to working conditions in the garment industry as well as teaching materials.