Beyond Boycotts

Author : Philippe Vonnard,Nicola Sbetti,Grégory Quin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110529098

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Beyond Boycotts by Philippe Vonnard,Nicola Sbetti,Grégory Quin Pdf

Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool of "soft power" during the Olympic games. Our goal is to continue in this direction and to focus more on the sport field as a place of exchanges during the Cold War. Regarding this point, our aim is to show that there were events "beyond boycotts"many and that unknown connections existed inside sport. Morevoer, many actors were involved in these exchanges. Thus, it is important not only to focus on the action of States, but also on private actors (international sporting bodies and journalists), considering that they acted around sport (an "apolitic" field) as it was tool to maintain links between the two blocs. Our project offers a good opportunity for young scholars to present original research based on new materials (notably the use of institutional or personals archives). Morevoer, it is also a step forward with a view to conduct research within a global history paradigm, one that is still underused in sport academic fields.

Author : Gay W. Seidman
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610444880

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Beyond the Boycott by Gay W. Seidman Pdf

As the world economy becomes increasingly integrated, companies can shift production to wherever wages are lowest and unions weakest. How can workers defend their rights in an era of mobile capital? With national governments forced to compete for foreign investment by rolling back legal protections for workers, fair trade advocates are enlisting consumers to put market pressure on companies to treat their workers fairly. In Beyond the Boycott, sociologist Gay Seidman asks whether this non-governmental approach can reverse the "race to the bottom" in global labor standards. Beyond the Boycott examines three campaigns in which activists successfully used the threat of a consumer boycott to pressure companies to accept voluntary codes of conduct and independent monitoring of work sites. The voluntary Sullivan Code required American corporations operating in apartheid-era South Africa to improve treatment of their workers; in India, the Rugmark inspection team provides 'social labels' for handknotted carpets made without child labor; and in Guatemala, COVERCO monitors conditions in factories producing clothing under contract for major American brands. Seidman compares these cases to explore the ingredients of successful campaigns, as well as the inherent limitations facing voluntary monitoring schemes. Despite activists' emphasis on educating individual consumers to support ethical companies, Seidman finds that, in practice, they have been most successful when they mobilized institutions—such as universities, churches, and shareholder organizations. Moreover, although activists tend to dismiss states' capabilities, all three cases involved governmental threats of trade sanctions against companies and countries with poor labor records. Finally, Seidman points to an intractable difficulty of independent workplace monitoring: since consumers rarely distinguish between monitoring schemes and labels, companies can hand pick monitoring organizations, selecting those with the lowest standards for working conditions and the least aggressive inspections. Transnational consumer movements can increase the bargaining power of the global workforce, Seidman argues, but they cannot replace national governments or local campaigns to expand the meaning of citizenship. As trade and capital move across borders in growing volume and with greater speed, civil society and human rights movements are also becoming more global. Highly original and thought-provoking, Beyond the Boycott vividly depicts the contemporary movement to humanize globalization—its present and its possible future. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology

Author : Grégory Quin,Nicola Sbetti,Philippe Vonnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110529106

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Beyond Boycotts by Grégory Quin,Nicola Sbetti,Philippe Vonnard Pdf

Author : Terence Corrigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Local finance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073171709

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Beyond the Boycotts by Terence Corrigan Pdf

Author : Monroe Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135960421

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Consumer Boycotts by Monroe Friedman Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Feldman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319948720

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Boycotts Past and Present by David Feldman Pdf

In this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the eighteenth century to the present day. Employed in struggles against British rule in the American colonies, against racial discrimination in the United States during the Civil Rights movement, and Apartheid in South Africa, today it is Israel that is the focus of a campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Boycotts have featured in campaigns undertaken by labour, consumer and nationalist movements. Jews were the focus of some boycotts instigated by nationalist movements in Central and Eastern Europe and Jewish businesses were targeted by the National Socialist regime in Germany. In this collection, contributors explore the history of past boycott movements and examine the different narratives put forward by proponents and opponents of the current BDS movement directed against Israel: one which places the movement within a history of struggles for ‘human rights’; the other which regards BDS as the latest manifestation of an antisemitic tradition.

Author : G. Seidman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123342649

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Beyond the Boycott by G. Seidman Pdf

A study of the impact of the Sullivan Code in South Africa, the Rugmark social labeling effort in the Indian handwoven carpet industry, and the COVERCO monitoring of the Guatemalan apparel industry.

Author : Ineke van Kessel
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0813918685

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Beyond Our Wildest Dreams by Ineke van Kessel Pdf

The 1980s in South Africa were marked by protest, violent confrontation, and international sanctions. Internally, the country saw a bewildering growth of grassroots organizations--including trade unions, civic associations in the black townships, student and other youth organizations, church-based groups, and women's movements--many of which operated under the umbrella of the United Democratic Front (UDF). "Beyond Our Wildest Dreams" explores the often conflicted relationship between the UDF's large-scale resistance to apartheid and its everyday struggles at the local level. In hindsight, the UDF can be seen as a transitional front, preparing the ground for leaders of the liberation movement to return from exile or prison and take over power. But the founding fathers of the UDF initially had far more modest ambitions. Interviews with Cachalia and other leading personalities in the UDF examine the organization's workings at the national level, while stories of ordinary people, collected by the author, illuminate the grassroots activism so important to the UDF's success. Even in South Africa, writes Ineke van Kessel, who covered the anti-apartheid movement as a journalist, resistance was not the obvious option for ordinary citizens. Van Kessel shows how these people were mobilized into forming a radical social movement that developed a highly flexible and innovative form of resistance that ultimately ended apartheid. --From publisher's description.

Author : Victor D. Cha
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0231154909

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Beyond the Final Score by Victor D. Cha Pdf

The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or was Beijing in 2008 more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage of the global spotlight to promote its political ideology at home and abroad?Beyond the Final Score takes an original look at the 2008 Beijing games within the context of the politics of sport in Asia. Asian athletics are bound up with notions of national identity and nationalism, refracting political intent and the processes of globalization. For China, the Beijing Games introduced a liberalizing ethos that its authoritative regime could ignore only at its peril. Victor D. Cha-former director of Asian affairs for the White House-evaluates Beijing's contention with this pressure, considering the intense scrutiny China already faced on issues of counterproliferation, global warming, and free trade.

Author : Kenneth Aaron Rodman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847693082

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Sanctions Beyond Borders by Kenneth Aaron Rodman Pdf

Rodman (government, Colby College) examines the use of sanctions from the early Cold War era through the 1990s, including the Helms-Burton Law and the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act. He argues that sanctions are weak and costly measures that damage diplomatic relations, particularly when used to prevent key multinational corporations from undertaking economically significant transactions with proscribed nations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Randy Shaw
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520268043

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Beyond the Fields by Randy Shaw Pdf

Describes the social changes Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America helped accomplish that have endured in the twenty-first century, including the building of Latino political power and the fight for environmental justice.

Author : Frederick M. Wirt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351498098

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Politics, Products, and Markets by Frederick M. Wirt Pdf

In contemporary life, the marketplace has emerged as an important arena for the practice of politics. Concerns about personal and family well-being as well as ethical or political assessment of favorable and unfavorable business and government practices become part and parcel of the marketplace of politics. This volume describes this phenomenon as political consumerism, reflecting an understanding of politics as a product embedded in a complex social and normative context. Politics, Products, and Markets is the first general study of political consumerism. It asks fundamental questions, including what is new and what is old about the phenomenon. The authors discuss the mediating role of political consumerism in the problematic relationship between markets and morality. They explore whether institutional arrangements have been developed to permit consumers and producers to assume ethical responsibility for their choices and behavior. They ask why political consumerism is presently on the rise. And they investigate the relationship between globalization and political consumerism. Part 1, "Making Money Morally," discusses how political consumerism challenges the perceived division between private interests pursued by private actors in the market and public interests pursued through political means. Part 2, "Consumer Choices and Setting of the Agenda of Politics," contains examples of how political consumerism sets the agenda of politics and discusses its democratic quality. Part 3, "Building Responsible Institutions in Multi-Risk Society," has as its central theme the development of new political consumer institutions. Part 4, "Politicizing Consumers and Change in Politics," studies the characteristics of political consumers and raises the question of whether political consumerism really is politics. This volume will be of interest to social scientists, social activists, and policy institutes.

Author : Derek Curtis BOK,Derek Curtis Bok
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674028463

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Beyond the Ivory Tower by Derek Curtis BOK,Derek Curtis Bok Pdf

Derek Bok examines the complex ethical and social issues facing modern universities today, and suggests approaches that will allow the academic institution both to serve society and to continue its primary mission of teaching and research.

Author : Amiso M. George,Cornelius B. Pratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136593734

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Case Studies in Crisis Communication by Amiso M. George,Cornelius B. Pratt Pdf

Case Studies in Crisis Communication: International Perspectives on Hits and Misses was created to fill the gap for a much-needed textbook in case studies in crisis communication from international perspectives. The events of September 11, 2001, other major world crises, and the ongoing macroeconomic challenges of financial institutions, justify the need for this book. While existing textbooks on the subject focus on U.S. corporate cases, they may not appeal equally to students and practitioners in other countries, hence the need to analyze cases from the United States and from other world regions. The variety and the international focus of the cases, be they environmental, health or management successes or failures, makes this book more appealing to a wider audience. These cases examine socio-cultural issues associated with responding to a variety of crises.

Author : Joshua Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520939745

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Beyond the Lines by Joshua Brown Pdf

In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than a quaint predecessor to our own sophisticated media. As he tells the history and traces the influence of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, with relevant asides to Harper's Weekly, the New York Daily Graphic, and others, Brown recaptures the complexity and richness of pictorial reporting. He finds these images to be significant barometers for gauging how the general public perceived pivotal events and crises—the Civil War, Reconstruction, important labor battles, and more. This book is the best available source on the pictorial riches of Frank Leslie's newspaper and the only study to situate these images fully within the social context of Gilded Age America. Beyond the Lines illuminates the role of illustration in nineteenth-century America and gives us a new look at how the social milieu shaped the practice of illustrated journalism and was in turn shaped by it.