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The Case Study Of Labor Rights In China Textile Industry In The Context Of The Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign

Posted on:2008-05-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z W TangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360212485099Subject:Labor economics
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China has been playing a more and more important role in international trade, but at the same time, the problem on the labor rights in the industry of manufacturing-for-export in China has become the centre of discussion in the world's media. In recent years, the Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign is on the horizon in western countries. This requires the enterprises focus on multi-stakeholders, especially the labor. This campaign has affected China's export and manufacture industry via multi-national companies. This article selected as the research objects the textile industry, a typical export manufacture industry. It discussed the current situation and problems of the labor rights in China's textile industry in the context of the Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign. It also analyzed how to improve the protection of labor rights.This article first summarized the current research on the influences the labor rights protection with three sides, developing and propelling mechanism of CSR campaign, the practices in China textile industry, the relevant labor criteria, and the related studies. In the context of CSR campaign, the focus was placed upon the roles and propelling mechanism. As regards to the labor criteria, this article compared China's labor criteria to international labor criteria. At the end of the academic study, it built the propelling mechanism model of CSR campaign to the protection of labor rights in textile industry. This article went on to describe the current situation on labor rights in the textile industry, based upon the statistics and on-site research. Then the article analyzed the influence the CSR campaign has made upon China's labor rights in the textile industry, revised and explained the propelling mechanism model of CSR campaign to the labor rights protection in textile industry. The article, at last, analyzed the obstacles which have been met during the process; it suggested solutions for the protection of the labor rights in China's textile industry, from the point of view of multi-stakeholders of Corporate Social Responsibility.This research was conducted not only by the study, selection and absorption of the previous research and statistics, but also by questionnaire, interviewing and site visiting. The data was processed using the SPSS 11.5 statistics software, compared and studied. Using the above methods, the following has been done:1,Described and analyzed the labor rights in China's textile industry on the basis of few case studies and lots of questionnaire data. It drew the conclusion that CSR campaign improved the protection of labor rights by contrasting many ways.2,Built and revised the propelling mechanism model of CSR campaign to the protection of labor rights in textile industry. Found the obstacles appeared during the process by analyzing all kinds of propelling mechanism.
Keywords/Search Tags:Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign, China textile industry, labor rights, labor criteria, case studies
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