A key challenge in promoting decent work worldwide is how to improve the position of both
firms and workers in value chains and global production networks driven by lead firms. This …

In September 2000, member countries of the United Nations, as part of the Millennium
Summit, committed themselves to halve the proportion of the global population that survives …

The upgrading prospects of clusters of local enterprises differ according to the type of global
value chain they feed into. This is a central theme of the book running through most of its …

Page 1 International Labour Office Geneva Value Chain Analysis for Policy Makers and
Practitioners Hubert Schmitz FACTORY SHOP SHOP With the support of the Rockefeller …

This article explores the power of the global value chain approach in explaining the growth
of production capabilities and the distribution of gains. It suggests that the upgrading …

The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a
manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a …

Donor approaches to supporting pro-poor value chains Page 1 Donor approaches to supporting
pro-poor value chains Report prepared for the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development …

Voluntary governance arrangements focusing on responsible business behavior have
proliferated over the past decades, and in many sectors of industry, different governance …

Production by order of a lead firm that 'governs' its value chain by defining and enforcing
standards without aspiring to gain ownership control of its suppliers is becoming a dominant …

Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers'
support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up …