Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice /

This open access book documents and analyses the various interventions - legal, political, and even artistic - that followed the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2012. It illuminates the different substantive and procedural aspects of the legal proceedings and negotiations betwe...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Saage-Maaß, Miriam (Editor), Zumbansen, Peer (Editor), Bader, Michael (Editor), Shahab, Palvasha (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
Series:Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights, 6
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to Metadata
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction - Transnational Law and Advocacy around Labour and Human Rights Litigation
  • Part 1: The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and its aftermath - Litigations, campaigning and transnational collaboration
  • Loss and Legibility - A conversation with Saeeda Khatoon
  • Legal Interventions and Transnational Alliances in the Ali Enterprises Case - Struggles for Workers' Rights in Global Supply Chains
  • Paradoxes of Strategic Labour Rights Litigation: Insights from the Baldia Factory Fire Litigation
  • After the Ali Enterprises fire: Occupational safety and health and workers' organising - A conversation with Zehra Khan about current and future struggles
  • Pakistan's "Industrial 9/11" - Transnational rights-based activism in the garment industry and creating space for future global struggles
  • The Land of Mourning - A conversation with Adeela Suleman
  • Four against KiK - A conversation with Caspar Dohmen
  • Part 2: Labour and Tort Law Aspects of Global Supply Chains
  • The Rana Plaza collapse and the case for Enforceable Agreements with Apparel Brands
  • Trade Union Approaches to Global Value Chains - The Indonesian Experience
  • Transnational labour law? "Corporate social responsibility" and the Law
  • Tort Law and Human Rights. - Part 3: Critical Perspectives on Law and Litigation
  • Confined Employment: Exploring Labor Marginalization in Workplace Safety
  • The KiK case: A critical perspective from the South
  • From Strategic Litigation to Juridical Action
  • Toward a Strategic Engagement with the Question of the Corporation: A Critique of Business and Human Rights. .