Corporate Social Responsibility in the Garment Industry. The Case of the Clean Clothes Campaign and Developing States

• Authors: Tomasz Wawrzyniak

Title variants

Społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu w przemyśle odzieżowym – Clean Clothes Campaign a państwa rozwijające się

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to investigate the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) organization and its efforts to alleviate the poor situation of workers in developing states and to promote the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility. It starts with a brief example of two such developing countries, Bangladesh and Cambodia, data for which has been drawn from Eurostat, Trading Economics, and the CIA’s World Factbook. It then moves to its main focus, that is, the description of the structure of the CCC, the different ways in which it tries to achieve its goals, and the vast network of partnership between the campaign and NGO’s worldwide, as well as the cooperation with decisive bodies of the European Union. The article concludes that the work of the CCC is very important and is getting more and more recognition in recent years, both from formal bodies and the public.

PL

Celem artykułu jest przeanalizowanie działań organizacji Clean Clothes Campaign podejmowanych w celu polepszenia złej sytuacji pracowników w krajach rozwijających się oraz promowania idei społecznej odpowiedzialności biznesu. Aby lepiej przybliżyć problem, na początku artykułu odniesiono się krótko do dwóch krajów rozwijających się, Bangladeszu i Kambodży (dane zostały zaczerpnięte z Eurostatu oraz stron Trading Economics i CIA The World Factbook). Następnie opisano strukturę CCC oraz metody, dzięki którym organizacja chcę osiągnąć swoje cele. Przedstawiono także szeroką sieć współpracy między CCC a innymi organizacjami z całego świata i organami decyzyjnymi Unii Europejskiej. Reasumując, można stwierdzić, że działalność CCC staje się coraz bardziej istotna, a w ostatnich latach organizacja zyskuje uznanie zarówno organów formalnych, jak i społeczeństwa.

Keywords

EN

Clean Clothes Campaign; Corporate Social Responsibility; developing states

PL

społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu; kraje rozwijające się; społeczna odpowiedzialność biznesu; kraje rozwijające się

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Ekonomia Międzynarodowa
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 79-91

Dates

published

2017-06-30

Contributors

author

Tomasz Wawrzyniak

• University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Field of studies: Economics and International Business

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2082-4440.18.02