Levi's Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace

Over the last decade, ugly allegations of corporate complicity in human-rights violations have exploded into one of the most controversial issues of our time. Companies are being held responsible by human-rights advocates for the injustices that are the unintended side effects of economic globalization: union repression in China, forced labor in Burma, child workers in Pakistan, and sweatshop abuse throughout the developing world. Using the story of Levi Strauss and Company as a guide, Karl Schoenberger offers a highly readable assessment of the challenge that the human-rights scourge poses to international business. Schoenberger is sensitive to the interests of activists, politicians, and multinationals, and as a result his call for active corporate engagement and rigorous accountability in promoting the rights of overseas workers carries enormous resonance. Simultaneously impassioned and evenhanded, Levi's Children is a work of profound importance, one that may help us chart our course in the next century. Thorough, well-informed and chatty ... Schoenberger's conclusion is intriguing. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 05/08/2001
ISBN: 9780802138125
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.04w x 0.81d

Review Citations: Choice 10/01/2001 pg. 354