Book review: rules without rights: land, labor and private authority in the global economy by Tim Bartley

Evans, Alice (2018) Book review: rules without rights: land, labor and private authority in the global economy by Tim Bartley. LSE Review of Books (16 Apr 2018). Website.

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The Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed more than 1,100 people, shunted global production networks into the spotlight. We saw the horrors of precarity, lax safety standards and weak representation. These are typical in factories the world over, not aberrations. Sexual harassment is also endemic. Why do these abuses persist? What’s the underlying political economy? Why is private regulation the widely accepted solution? And is it actually working? Alice Evans reviews Rules Without Rights: Land, Labor and Private Authority in the Global Economy, in which Professor Tim Bartley presents a comprehensive analysis of global governance, before setting out an inspirational new agenda.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD100 Land Use H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD2329 Industrialization
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2018 11:02
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 17:48
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/89365

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