Better Factories Cambodia: An Instrument for Improving Industrial Relations in a Transnational Context - Working Paper 256

Arianna Rossi
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Raymond Robertson

No 256, Working Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: Globalization of production has created an environment for labor-management relations that involves international actors and spans countries, going beyond the boundaries of the traditional workspace. The dramatic changes brought about by globalization led to the emergence of new cross-border forms of industrial relations. This paper analyses the case of the International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) project as a transnational instrument to create the institutional space for industrial relations in Cambodia. Based on the principle of social dialogue among the social partners (the national Government and workers’ and employers’ organizations) as well as with global buyers, BFC’s multistakeholder approach reaches beyond the workplace and may be a key instrument of industrial relations because it bridges the gap between the sphere of production and that of consumption. The empirical results reveal some of the particular strengths of the program.

Keywords: working conditions; better factories cambodia; industrial relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2011-06
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