This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel supply chains. It examines the possibilities and limitations of market approaches to securing social compliance in global manufacturing industries. It does so by tracing the historic origins of social labelling both in trade union and consumer constituencies, considering industry and consumer perspectives on the benefits and drawbacks of social labelling, comparing efforts to develop and implement labelling initiatives in various countries, and...
This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel suppl...
When the global economy and world order become uncertain, where do we look for a sense of where things are heading?
Can the World Be Wrong? lays out a compelling case for looking to long-term trends in global public opinion to help predict the future. It goes on to outline the future these trends suggest.
Written by a pioneer of global polling, the book is provocatively illustrated by decade-long public opinion trends across 20 countries, on subjects ranging from geopolitics, globalization, the economy, the role of companies, and the UN, to changing consumer...
When the global economy and world order become uncertain, where do we look for a sense of where things are heading?
When the global economy and world order become uncertain, where do we look for a sense of where things are heading?
Can the World Be Wrong? lays out a compelling case for looking to long-term trends in global public opinion to help predict the future. It goes on to outline the future these trends suggest.
Written by a pioneer of global polling, the book is provocatively illustrated by decade-long public opinion trends across 20 countries, on subjects ranging from geopolitics, globalization, the economy, the role of companies, and the UN, to changing consumer...
When the global economy and world order become uncertain, where do we look for a sense of where things are heading?
Legacies is a genealogical history of the Miller and Holmes lineage. Along with these two major families are other related families that combine to make up the family. These include the Nichols, Tunnell, Privett, Garrett, Owsley, Estes, Ussery, Monnet, and Pilot families.
Legacies is a genealogical history of the Miller and Holmes lineage. Along with these two major families are other related families that combine to ma...
A collection of short, humorous literary pieces, usually based on factual instances reported by news organizations. Many of the essays are illustrated with line drawings created by graphic artist Steve Hussey.
A collection of short, humorous literary pieces, usually based on factual instances reported by news organizations. Many of the essays are illustrated...
Malawi is a small and poorly known country, but the crimes committed against its people by the brutal dictatorship of Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda are a part of our shared human history. It is about what happens when governments turn state violence on their own people with impunity. The book gives voice to Malawians who were arbitrarily imprisoned, who fled for their lives into exile, or who suffered silently under the regime's state-sponsored terror from 1964 to 1994. These are not easy stories for the victims to tell and people in power do not want them to be made public. To add to the...
Malawi is a small and poorly known country, but the crimes committed against its people by the brutal dictatorship of Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda are ...
