Four Case Studies on Corporate Social Responsibility: Do Conflicts Affect a Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility Policy?

The article discusses different CSR issues emerging with four multinationals while giving a clearer definition of CSR. European Commission defines CSR as ‘the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on …

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Monitoring International Labor Recruitment: A Cross-Visa Exploration of Regulatory Challenges

A 2012 comparative analysis of non-immigrant visas used to employ foreign workers in the United States. The report identifies and briefly describes visas of special interest in the recruitment of …

H.R. 2759: New Federal Bill Would Require Companies to Disclose Efforts to Address Human Rights Risks in their Supply Chains

This bill, H.R. 2759 (Business Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act), modeled after the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, would require companies to disclose efforts to identify and address …

Walmart Stores Inc. v. Dukes et al

Background: Betty Dukes claimed sex discrimination as she claimed she was denied the training she needed to advance to higher salaried positions. Walmart argued that Duke clashed with female Wal-Mart …

Between Fragmentation and Globalization: U.S. Public Sector Unions and International Labor Cooperation

This article (in 35 Lab. Stud. J. 364 (2010)) explores the import of public-sector unions in cultivating transnational labor campaigns, as well as the challenges that development has entailed. Langevin …

Picked Apart: the Hidden Struggles of Migrant Worker Women in the Maryland Crab Industry

A 2010 report documenting the difficulties faced by migrant worker women in the US who travel from Mexico with a H-2B visa in order to work for crab shelling companies …

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Doe v. Wal-Mart, Inc.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling that offers significant protection to U.S. companies from lawsuits over working conditions, where the overseas plaintiffs do not …

Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains of Global Brands: A Boundaryless Responsibility? Clarifications, exceptions and implications

CSR is on its way to globalization through practices and structures of the globalized capitalist world order, typified in Multinational Corporations (MNCs). MNCs are often challenged by the global reach …

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Globalization in Collective Bargaining, Baseball, and Matsuzaka: Labor and Antitrust Law on the Diamond

This article (in 28 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol’y J. 283 (2007)) concerns the globalization of baseball, labor and antitrust litigation, and the Major League Players Association. Gould recalls his …

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Transnational Labor Citizenship

Gordon offers “transnational labor citizenship” as a means to break down barriers of national citizenship between domestic and migrant workers. Her article asserts that political participation, in the age of …

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