Shared Responsibility and Labor Rights in Global Supply Chains

Yossi Dahan (), Hanna Lerner () and Faina Milman-Sivan ()
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Yossi Dahan: College of Law and Business
Hanna Lerner: Tel Aviv University
Faina Milman-Sivan: University of Haifa

Journal of Business Ethics, 2023, vol. 182, issue 4, No 6, 1025-1040

Abstract: Abstract The article presents a novel normative model of shared responsibility for remedying unjust labor conditions and protecting workers’ rights in global supply chains. While existing literature on labor governance in the globalized economy tends to focus on empirical and conceptual investigations, the article contributes to the emerging scholarship by proposing moral justifications for labor governance schemes that go beyond voluntary private regulations and include public enforcement mechanisms. Drawing on normative theories of justice and on empirical-legal research, our Labor Model of Shared Responsibility introduces three main claims: First, that responsibility for protecting and promoting labor standards in global supply chains should be shared by all private and institutional actors involved (whether directly or indirectly) in the production and distribution processes. Second, we offer a normative model for allocating responsibility among the various actors, based on five principles: connectedness, contribution, benefit, capacity, and power. Last, we demonstrate how the normative model could be implemented through various national and international institutional mechanisms.

Keywords: Global justice; Shared responsibility; Labor rights; Global supply chains; Globalization; Transnational corporations; Transnational production networks; Sweatshops; Labor law; Corporate social responsibility; International labor organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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