The Center for Global Workers’ Rights is proud to host another Spring Symposium and hopes it will be useful in guiding the efforts of scholars and practitioners toward addressing precarious work and worker health concerns in Global Supply Chains. This will be done through a frank discussion on the lessons learned from current initiatives and a review of relevant scholarship and work that needs to be done as we move forward. The symposium will adhere to the Chatham House Rule by which “participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speakers, nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.” Review the program booklet to view the speakers from the Symposium.

Background Papers and Reports

Anner, Mark. “Stopping the Race to the Bottom: Challenges for Workers' Rights in Supply Chains in Asia.”

Bhattacharjee, Anannya, and Ashim Roy. “Bargaining in the global commodity chain: the Asia Floor Wage Alliance.”

Brown, Garrett. “Genuine Worker Participation - An Indispensable Key to Effective Global OHS.”

Dutta, Madhumita, “The Nokia SEZ Story: Economy of Disappearances.”

Pandita, Sanjiv and Fahmi Panimbang, “Global Supply Chains: Struggle within them or against them?”

Rosenbaum, JJ and Daniel Costa, “Temporary foreign workers by the numbers.”

Rosenbaum, JJ, “The world watches the US on labor abuse.”

Smith, Ted and Chad Raphael, “The Future of Activism for Electronics Workers.”

Sznajder, Kristin, et al., “Gynecologic pain related to occupational stress among female factory workers in Tianjin, China.”

von Broembsen, Marlese and Shae Godfrey, “Labour Law and Development Viewed from Below.”