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The Business of Human Rights: An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility
Aurora(Ed Voiculecu
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Description for The Business of Human Rights: An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility
Paperback. The Business of Human Rights is an essential text that provides a human rights approach to corporate responsibilities, and places of these responsibilities within society across the globe. Editor(s): Voiculescu, Aurora; Yanacopulos, Helen. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JPVH; KJG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg. This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the demands for an extension of international human rights standards. Scholars from a vast variety of backgrounds provide expert yet accessible accounts of questions of law, politics, economics and international relations and how they relate to one ... Read more
In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg. This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the demands for an extension of international human rights standards. Scholars from a vast variety of backgrounds provide expert yet accessible accounts of questions of law, politics, economics and international relations and how they relate to one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848138629
SKU
V9781848138629
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About Aurora(Ed Voiculecu
Aurora Voiculescu is Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies and Human Rights in the Department of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Law, the University of Westminster (London). She is the co-editor (with D. McBarnet and T. Campbell) of The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law (2007). Helen Yanacopulos is senior lecturer in International Politics and Development at ... Read more
Reviews for The Business of Human Rights: An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility
This book provides a very good selection of the range of issues of corporate responsibility in the area of human rights. The authors offer insightful engagement with a variety of issues based on application to relevant examples in practice and from different perspectives.
Robert McCorquodale, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Nottingham
Robert McCorquodale, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Nottingham