How has the Apparel Industry enacted their espoused Codes of Conduct over time?
This study group will focus on monitoring studies by PWC, FLA, WRC, and Global Alliance, as well as studies that support and question their methods and findings. Improvements for industry workers have been realized (more or less) over time as various social movements, as well as corporate staff have put pressure on subcontract factory management to make Codes meaningful and enforceable. The question here, for example, is how is it that workers come to know the implications of Code of Conduct, beyond (in China) a packet that is tied about their necks (in some locations). There seem to be two sub-research questions. The first (and most is around the social construction of the concept of “code of conduct.” It seems to be taken as read that the concept is unproblematic outside the Anglo-American context – but what are the competing ways of understanding something like compliance, what are the divergent understandings of “code or “conduct” across the stakeholders, what are the assumptions c
