After Rana Plaza: Building coalitional power for labour rights between unions and (consumption-based) social movement organisations
通过2013年孟加拉国拉纳广场灾难的案例,研究生产端与消费端行动者如何互补能力、形成联盟力量,推动超过180家品牌企业签署具有约束力的《孟加拉国消防与建筑安全协议》,对理解如何改善全球供应链劳工标准有启示。
Global labour governance has typically been approached from either industrial relations scholars focusing on the role of organised labour or social movement scholars focusing on the role of social movement organisations in mobilising consumption power. Yet, little work has focused on the interaction of the two. Using an exploratory case study of the governance response to the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, this article examines how complementary capacities of production- and consumption-based actors generated coalitional power and contributed to creating the ‘Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh’, making it binding and convincing more than 180 brand-name companies to sign up. The research has implications for understanding how the interface between production and consumption actors may provide leverage to improve labour standards in global supply chains.