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dc.contributor.authorBraithwaite, Peter Franklin
dc.coverage.spatialIndiaen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-31T15:28:34Z
dc.date.available2014-10-31T15:28:34Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationBraithwaite, Peter Franklin (2012) Commercial pressures and social justice in the Indian textile and garment industries: rules, conventions, commitments and change. Doctoral thesis, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4954
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the tensions that arise when business enterprises respond to situations that have both commercial aspects and implications for workers. Using Grounded Theory methodology it examines data from 56 case profiles, extensive interviews and secondary sources in order to understand the nature and variety of the social and commercial commitments that enterprises in the Indian textile and garment industries make and how these are influenced by the rules and conventions inherent in global value chains and in the local culture. It uses concepts drawn from Convention Theory, from social realism and from the social justice literature to develop an analytical framework that explains how priorities are coordinated in three arenas – within enterprises, in interactions connected with the workplace and in society as a whole. The findings show that, in the mainstream, social commitments are generally weak and behaviour towards workers is inconsistent, reflecting a reactive stance that ethical trading has done little to change. Most social enterprises have similarly weak commercial commitments and efforts by Fair Trade organisations to reach mainstream markets have proved problematic. Few examples have been found of commercial success achieved in a way that also meets the criteria of social justice. Those cases that have come closest have created new business models that integrate social and commercial values, forged by means of long-term business relationships or partnerships. A variety of mutually-reinforcing factors combine to determine the balance of priorities – public discourse, engagement by stakeholders, including workers, and internal processes for resolving differences – and these are affected by the level of scrutiny and openness to organisational learning. Interventions aimed at greater social justice in the industry or at scaling up social enterprise need to recognise the complexity of these interrelationships and the ways in which rules, conventions and commitments blend to determine behaviour.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Sussexen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectIndustrial Developmenten_GB
dc.subjectSocial Protectionen_GB
dc.subjectWork and Labouren_GB
dc.titleCommercial pressures and social justice in the Indian textile and garment industries: rules, conventions, commitments and changeen_GB
dc.typeThesisen_GB
dc.rights.holderThe authoren_GB
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://sro.sussex.ac.uk/39450/en_GB
dc.identifier.koha220798


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