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Socially and environmentally responsible apparel consumption: knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between social and environmental responsibility knowledge, attitudes, and purchasing behavior.Design methodology approach - An online questionnaire was developed to assess knowledge of, and attitudes towards, issues of social responsibility, including social and environmental aspects related to the production and distribution of apparel and textile goods. Information regarding engagement in socially and environmentally responsible apparel-purchasing behavior was also collected. Participants included students enrolled at a four-year institution located in the Midwestern USA.Findings - Participants indicated being more knowledgeable about apparel environmental issues as compared to apparel social issues. Overall, participants exhibited low involvement in socially and environmentally responsible apparel-purchasing behavior. However, both knowledge and attitudes of social and environmental issues were significant predictors of socially and environmentally responsible purchasing behavior.Practical implications - Given the competition among apparel companies operating in the marketplace, this study lends valuable insight for firms in implementing strategic social and environmental practices and policies. The implications of this study also suggest that firms within the industry may need to respond to the barriers perceived by consumers in engaging in sustainable apparel-purchasing behavior.Originality value - The findings of this study are useful in understanding the relationship between knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Previous research on this topic has been inconclusive. A thorough examination of this topic is important, as noted by previous scholars, consumers have the ability to effect change in the marketplace through their purchasing behavior.
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Stocks finished strong yesterday fueled by constructive U.S. economic data and easing COVID-19 infections. The Dow gained two hundred and fifteen points, the NASDAQ set a new record adding one hundred and sixty-four points, the S&P 500 followed suit hitting a new record, too, up twenty-six points.
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Workplace practices in Hong Kong-invested garment factories in Cambodia
Adopting an analytical approach grounded in the literature on the impact of industrial relations (IR) systems on foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions, this article assesses the workplace practices in Hong Kong-invested garment factories in the regulated IR system in Cambodia. Cambodia opened up FDI in 1993. The country has attracted FDI in light manufacturing, mainly in the export-orientated garment and footwear sectors. The USA is the largest trade partner of Cambodia in garment exports because of a unique agreement, US-Cambodia Trade Agreement on Textile and Apparel. The Agreement granted a quota for Cambodian garment export in return for better compliance with international labour standards. The trade agreement and private sector initiatives have combined to bring about a \"labour advantage\" in Cambodia. This labour advantage will continue to be its competitive edge in a post-Multifibre Agreement world, and other developing countries may well follow Cambodia's model.
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International Actors in Cambodian Labor Politics
This study explores new dynamics in industrial relations (IR) in the globalization era. Globalization has created a favorable environment for international actors to become engaged in national IR systems. To analyze the institutionalizing process of the IR system under the influence of international actors and its impacts and implications, I devise a theoretical frame of institutional implantation by developing Evans’ concept of ‘institutional monocropping.’ I study Cambodia, a newly industrializing country under the strong influence of globalization. Drawing on data from intensive fieldwork, I argue that the Cambodian IR system has been designed based on the experiences of international actors, specifically the US government and the International Labour Organization (ILO), to serve their own interests. I suggest that these implanted institutions have brought shortterm gains to Cambodia’s unions but may hamper their long-term potential by influencing unions’ strategies and behaviors, relying on international support, and focusing on economic issues in the workplace.
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The Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement: Limits and Potential
This article analyzes the student anti-sweatshop movement in the United States and its efforts to employ codes of conduct to secure improved conditions for workers in the international apparel industry. After discussing the globalization of that industry, the article examines the content of the codes of conduct that have been suggested by the student movement, on the one hand, and the members of the Apparel Industry Partnership, on the other. It concludes with a critique of the strategy of relying on codes of conduct and suggests that the pursuit of workers' rights should be sought in a strengthened International Labor Organization.
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Labor strike in Chinatown–official statements of parties involved: Chinese Digest, April 1938
Unless the matter is settled soon, it will have immense adverse effects on the Chinese community's economic life. THE NATIONAL DOLLAR STORES, LTD. (STATEMENT ) The National Dollar Stores, Ltd., chain store operators, operating their stores and a warehouse in San Francisco, was forced to close three units as a result of a picket line that has been established by members of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, an affiliate of the CIO , although all of the stores and warehouse workers are members of the Retail Clerks union, Local 1100. While these negotiations were going on, there were other negotiations between the National Dollar Stores and other parties for the sale of the factory, and on Feb. 8, 1938, this factory was sold to a group of men who decided to do business under the name of Golden Gate Manufacturing Co. There was no deception practiced by the National Dollar Stores since the union was advised of these pending negotiations and the final sale of Feb. 8, 1938.
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Is This the Second Coming of the Cio?
Public sector unions like AFSCME have always given the kind of prominent role to politics and political action that also characterized the CIO during its movement years, from 1935 to 1948-integrating bargaining and politics with organizing new members in a way that most private sector unions had long abandoned by 1994, when Newt Gingrich woke up a nearly moribund AFL-CIO.
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Codes of Conduct: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers' Rights
Esbenshade argues that outsourcing and subcontracting in the global apparel industry have allowed brand name companies to avoid legal liability for garment workers. She claims that the development of codes of conduct, along with independent monitoring, provided workers and their allies with new tools for resistance. Illustrating this point, she recounts how anti-sweatshop student activists in the US and Dominican garment workers effectively used monitoring and codes of conduct to pressure a large Korean-owned factory to make concessions to their workers--a victory that helped to galvanize the anti-sweatshop movement.
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House Passes Bill On Union Elections
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday passed legislation supported by apparel retailers and brands and opposed by organized labor that would stipulate a minimum of 35 days before a union election can occur and also reinstate the traditional standard for defining bargaining units. The vote was 235 to 188.
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