Levi's Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace

by Karl Schoenberger

Book Overview

Over the last decade, ugly allegations of corporate complicity in human-rights violations have exploded into one of the most controversial issues of our time. Companies are being held responsible by human-rights advocates for the injustices that are the unintended side effects of economic globalization: union repression in China, forced labor in Burma, child workers in Pakistan, and sweatshop abuse throughout the developing world. Using the story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802138128
• ISBN13: 9780802138125
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Insightful on Human Rights

This book is a must read for anyone interested in the issue of human rights. It offers a compelling tale of one company's struggle to do the right thing while still remaining globally competitive. This is an issue that will only grow more important with time. Capitalism may be an efficient mechanism for shareholders in American but it may not necessarily be the answer for the developing world.

Human Rights Activists - Read this book!

This book is extremely timely in light of efforts in recent years to sue American companies in Federal Court for complicity in HR violations in developing countries; case in point is the effort to sue Shell for its activities in Nigeria under the Alien Tort Claims Act. It seems that profit becomes a talisman allowing companies to ignore their role in perpetuating Human Rights. An important book.