Expanding worker voice and labor rights in global supply chains: Standard setting, verification, and traceability

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-06-14 DOI:10.1177/14680181221094953

J. Wheeler

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Migrant workers are the backbone of many global supply chains, performing some of the hardest tasks with few protections, low pay, and at high risk for abuse, including being lured into debt bondage (International Business Leaders Forum [IBLF], 2010). Migrant workers number about 169 million, with about 58 million in ‘irregular migration’ (i.e. not authorized to work; International Labour Organization [ILO], 2021: 2–3). A seminal study revealing many female migrants in forced labor in the Malaysia electronic industry caused a global rethink of auditing (Verité, 2014). Reports by the ILO and other revealed extensive forced labor and trafficking abuses in the global fishing industry, spurring efforts to correct (FishWise, 2017; ILO, 2015). Broadly speaking, the ILO addresses migrant worker rights through its Decent Work Agenda, Conventions and Recommendations, and in alignment with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). New opportunities exist, however, for measurably improving labor rights protections in global supply chains through improved standard setting and enhanced verification of conformance to the standards as well as product traceability. While the ILO has had some limited engagement in this realm, it may find greater success with sustained

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在全球供应链中扩大工人的声音和劳工权利:标准制定、验证和可追溯性

移徙工人是许多全球供应链的支柱，他们从事一些最艰难的工作，却得不到保护，工资低，而且面临着被虐待的高风险，包括被引诱成为债务奴隶(国际商业领袖论坛[IBLF]， 2010年)。移徙工人人数约为1.69亿，其中约5800万为“非正常移徙”(即未获工作许可;国际劳工组织[ILO]， 2021: 2-3)。一项开创性的研究揭示了马来西亚电子行业中许多强迫劳动的女性移民，引起了全球对审计的重新思考(verit， 2014)。国际劳工组织和其他组织的报告揭示了全球渔业中广泛存在的强迫劳动和贩运行为，促使人们努力纠正(FishWise, 2017;国际劳工组织,2015年)。从广义上讲，国际劳工组织通过其体面工作议程、公约和建议，并根据《2030年可持续发展议程》和《联合国工商业与人权指导原则》，解决移徙工人的权利问题。然而，通过改进标准制定和加强对标准符合性的验证以及产品可追溯性，存在着可衡量地改善全球供应链中劳工权利保护的新机会。虽然国际劳工组织在这一领域的参与有限，但它可能会通过持续的努力取得更大的成功

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Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.20

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.