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

• Superior document: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights Series ; v.6
• Author: Saage-Maaß, Miriam.
• TeilnehmendeR: Zumbansen, Peer.; Bader, Michael.; Shahab, Palvasha.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 pages)

Table of Contents

EditorsTransnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 978-3-030-73835-8_Chapter_1 -- 978-3-030-73835-8_Chapter_1_222222 -- 978-3-030-73835-8_Chapter_1 -- Part I: 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 Ch... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Context of the Ali Enterprises Factory Fire Litigation -- 2.1 The South Asian Textile Industry and Europeś Enduring Imperial Way of Life -- 2.2 The Law of Global Value Chains -- 2.2.1 International Trade Law -- 2.2.2 Commercial and Company Law -- 2.3 Critical Perspectives on the Law -- 2.4 Legal Avenues for Those Affected by Human Rights Violations in Global Supply Chains -- 2.4.1 Multiple Jurisdictions -- 2.4.2 Expansion of the Legal Doctrines on Parent Company and Supply Chain Liability -- 2.4.3 Liability of Social Auditors -- 3 The Ali Enterprises Factory Disaster and the Litigation That Followed -- 3.1 The Building of Transnational Alliances -- 3.2 The Litigation Against KiK: Procedure and Key Legal Arguments -- 3.3 The Legal Interventions Against the Social Auditing Firm RINA -- 4 Objectives and Achievements of the Transnational Legal Interventions in the Wake of the Ali Enterprises Fire -- 4.1 Self-empowerment -- 4.2 Intervention in the Legal Discourse -- 4.3 Intervention in the Public Discourse -- 5 The Emancipatory Potential of Legal Interventions: Towards a Holistic Approach -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Paradoxes of Strategic Labour Rights Litigation: Insights from the Baldia Factory Fire Litigation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Story of the Legal Proceedings: Hope, Victories and Disenchantments.

2.1 Public Interest Constitutional Litigations -- 2.1.1 Constitution Petition No. 3318 of 2012 -- 2.1.2 Relief -- 2.1.3 Identification of Unclaimed Bodies -- 2.1.4 Judicial Commission and Compensations -- 2.1.5 Inspection and Surveys of Factories and Establishments -- 2.2 Constitution Petition No. 295 of 2013 -- 2.2.1 Labour Law Violations -- 2.2.2 Building Code Violations -- 2.2.3 RINA and Private Inspections -- 2.3 Criminal Case: A Comedy of Horrors -- 2.3.1 Act 1: The Illusive Hope -- 2.3.2 Act 2: The Comedy -- 2.3.3 Act 3: The Tragedy -- 2.4 Labour Law Reform, ILO Settlement and Socio-Cultural Mobilisation: The Irresistibility of Hope -- 3 Strange Bedfellows: Law, Disorder, Power Relations and Anarchic Justice -- 4 Strategic Labour Rights Litigation: Tactical Victories, Strategic Possibilities, Structural Improbabilities -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- After the Ali Enterprises Fire: Occupational Safety and Health and Workers ́Organising-A Conversation with Zehra Khan About Cu... -- Pakistanś ``Industrial 9/11:́́ Transnational Rights-Based Activism in the Garment Industry and Creating Space for Future Glob... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Looking Back: The Formation of a Transnational Coalition and the Case Against KiK -- 3 Mapping the Effects of Pakistanś ``Industrial 9/11 ́́in Germany and Pakistan -- 3.1 Changing the Discourse on Exploitation in Global Value Chains: medico and ECCHRś Perspectives from Germany -- 3.2 Accessing Transnational Partnerships: NTUFś Perspective from Pakistan -- 4 The Path Forward: From Fighting for Corrective Justice in the Tragedy to Challenging the ``Normalcy ́́of Global Exploitation -- 4.1 Continuing to Push for Better Working Conditions and Challenging the ``Imperial Way of Life ́́-- 4.2 Discursive Intervention: Influencing the Terms of Debate.

4.3 Advocacy and Lobbying: Moving from Corporate Social Responsibility to Binding Law -- 4.4 Strengthening Global and Local Trade Unions -- 5 Conclusions: The Task of Holding Space for Those Yet to Come -- The Land of Mourning: A Conversation with Adeela Suleman -- Four Against KiK: A Conversation with Caspar Dohmen -- Part II: Labour and Tort Law Aspects of Global Supply Chains -- The Rana Plaza Collapse and the Case for Enforceable Agreements with Apparel Brands -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Contemporary Garment Industry Worldwide and in South Asia -- 2.1 The Globalised Garment Industry and Buyer Pressure -- 2.2 The Garment Industry in Bangladesh and Pakistan -- 2.3 South Asia as a Hotspot Demonstrating the Limits of the CSR Industry -- 3 Negotiated Brand Agreements -- 3.1 CGT-Fruit of the Loom Agreement (Honduras) -- 3.2 Indonesia Freedom of Association Protocol -- 3.3 Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety -- 3.4 Bargaining with Lead Firms -- 4 Supply Chain Compensation Fund Agreements -- 4.1 Rana Plaza Compensation Agreement (Bangladesh) -- 4.2 Tazreen Claims Administration Trust (Bangladesh) -- 4.3 Ali Enterprises Arrangement (Pakistan) -- 4.4 Delivering Compensation with Lead Firms -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Trade Union Approaches to Global Value Chains: The Indonesian Experience -- 1 Introduction -- 2 International Framework Agreements as a Unique Trade Union Approach -- 3 Indonesian Freedom of Association Protocol -- 3.1 Content of the Freedom of Association Protocol: Protection of Trade Union Rights -- 3.2 Scope of Application -- 3.3 Factors That Promote Strong Trade Union Rights in the Formation Phase -- 3.3.1 Public Awareness Due to Intensive Campaigning Around a Mega Sports Event -- 3.3.2 Why the Topic of Freedom of Association? -- 3.3.3 Strong Support from Different Actors.

3.3.4 A Neutral Facilitator as a Central Factor for Success -- 4 Low Involvement of Global Union Federations -- 5 Implementing the Freedom of Association Protocol -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Transnational Labour Law? ``Corporate Social Responsibility ́́and the Law -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transnational Enterprises, ILO and CSR -- 2.1 Labour Standards in CSR Policies -- 2.2 Dissemination of CSR Policies -- 2.3 CSR Instruments and Actors -- 2.4 Beyond ILO Core Labour Standards -- 3 CSRś Authority and Effectiveness -- 3.1 Monitoring, Auditing and Certification -- 3.2 Complaint Mechanisms in Transnational Production Networks -- 4 CSR in Relation to International and National Law -- 4.1 Privatisation of International Law? -- 4.2 The Competition Between Private Standards and National Law in the Global South -- 4.2.1 The Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety -- 4.2.2 Cambodia and Myanmar: National Arbitration Councils -- 4.3 Transnational Labour Law? -- 4.4 The Role of National Law in the Global North -- 5 Summary -- References -- Tort Law and Human Rights -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Imagine: A Global Legal System -- 2.1 Legal Unity, Economic Diversity -- 2.2 The Tort Law Problems of Human Rights Violations -- 2.3 The Optimal Legal Solution -- 3 The Real World: Fragmentation of Legal Systems, Divergent Standards -- 3.1 Legal Fragmentation -- 3.2 Broad Externalisation -- 4 An Easy Fix? Global Application of National Tort Law -- 4.1 Globalising National Law -- 4.2 The Overlap Between Tort Law and Human Rights -- 4.3 Pathways Towards Global Application -- 4.4 Discriminatory Liability and the Virtues of Restraint -- 5 Production Liability as an Alternative Regime of Choice of Law -- 6 Duties of Care Across the Supply Chain -- 6.1 The Entity Limitation -- 6.2 Human Rights Due Diligence as an Intermediate Solution -- 7 Enforcement: Public or Private?.

8 Conclusions -- References -- Part III: Critical Perspectives on Law and Litigation -- Confined Employment: Exploring Labor Marginalization in Workplace Safety -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Task Ahead -- 1.2 Homo sacer: Workers in South Asian Textile Industries -- 2 A Fire Raging Through Missed Chances: The Persisting Disjunct Between Practical Reality and Legal Fiction -- 2.1 Legislative and Factual Background of the Ali Enterprises Factory Fire -- 2.2 Recent Developments and Continuing Non-enforcement -- 3 Colonial Legacy: History of the Factories Act -- 4 Ruse of Development: Core, Periphery and Global Production -- 4.1 Pakistan: Postcolony in the Global Political Economy -- 4.2 Rising Trade Liberalisation and Falling Worker Safety: Pakistan Since the Cold War -- 4.3 Utopian Aspirations and Dystopian Actions -- 5 Incarcerated on the Outside: The Contractual Worker-Legality Versus Reality -- 5.1 Use and Abuse: Legal Protections Versus Contracts -- 5.2 The Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- The KiK Case: A Critical Perspective from the South -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Labour Law as a Departure from Private Law -- 2.1 Labour Law as a Departure from State and Courts -- 2.2 Labour Law as a Matter of Policy and Not ``Ethics ́́and ``Morality ́́of Private Law -- 3 The Nature of International Labour Law in Labour Codes of MNCs -- 3.1 Avoiding Distributive Justice in Labour Codes -- 3.2 Diluting ``Labour Representation ́́in Labour Codes -- 3.3 Labour Codes as a Question of Power and Ideology -- 4 Private Law in Labour Litigation -- 5 A Critical Reflection on the KiK and Ali Enterprises Cases -- References -- From Strategic Litigation to Juridical Action -- 1 Critique of Strategic Litigation -- 1.1 Lack of Ambition -- 1.2 Depoliticisation -- 1.3 Advocatory Violence -- 1.4 Victimological Defensiveness.

2 Juridical Action.