The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist EU governance?
The calamitous Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013 focused international attention on labour rights’ violations and factory safety in Bangladesh’s dominant ready-made garment industry which is almost wholly dependent on exports to the EU. In response, the EU and the ILO launched the Bangladesh Susta...
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| description | The calamitous Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013 focused international attention on labour rights’ violations and factory safety in Bangladesh’s dominant ready-made garment industry which is almost wholly dependent on exports to the EU. In response, the EU and the ILO launched the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact, with the core objective of promoting continuous improvement in labour rights and factory safety in the industry. The uniqueness of the Compact stems from its nature as a form of experimentalist governance involving both governmental and non-governmental actors. Being primarily an EU-led initiative based on balancing trade, sustainable development and human rights’ objectives, it is underpinned by the possible option, if the Compact fails, of withdrawing trade preferences. This article will examine the rationale for the Compact, its main features, and its effectiveness as a form of ‘global experimentalist governance’. |
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| spelling | nottingham-481672020-05-04T19:01:16Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48167/ The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist EU governance? Kenner, Jeff Peake, Katrina The calamitous Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013 focused international attention on labour rights’ violations and factory safety in Bangladesh’s dominant ready-made garment industry which is almost wholly dependent on exports to the EU. In response, the EU and the ILO launched the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact, with the core objective of promoting continuous improvement in labour rights and factory safety in the industry. The uniqueness of the Compact stems from its nature as a form of experimentalist governance involving both governmental and non-governmental actors. Being primarily an EU-led initiative based on balancing trade, sustainable development and human rights’ objectives, it is underpinned by the possible option, if the Compact fails, of withdrawing trade preferences. This article will examine the rationale for the Compact, its main features, and its effectiveness as a form of ‘global experimentalist governance’. Cambridge University Press 2017-08-17 Article PeerReviewed Kenner, Jeff and Peake, Katrina (2017) The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist EU governance? Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies . pp. 1-30. ISSN 2049-7636 labour rights trade sustainable development European Union Bangladesh Compact ready-made garments global experimentalist governance https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-yearbook-of-european-legal-studies/article/bangladesh-sustainability-compact-an-effective-exercise-of-global-experimentalist-eu-governance/59F080EAD23A1B94DCB3AD610EF9491A doi:10.1017/cel.2017.3 doi:10.1017/cel.2017.3 |
| spellingShingle | labour rights trade sustainable development European Union Bangladesh Compact ready-made garments global experimentalist governance Kenner, Jeff Peake, Katrina The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist EU governance? |
| title | The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist EU governance? |
| title_full | The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist EU governance? |
| title_fullStr | The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist EU governance? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist EU governance? |
| title_short | The Bangladesh Sustainability Compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist EU governance? |
| title_sort | bangladesh sustainability compact: an effective exercise of global experimentalist eu governance? |
| topic | labour rights trade sustainable development European Union Bangladesh Compact ready-made garments global experimentalist governance |
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