Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2021
• Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Employment and labour law: general; Human rights, civil rights; Political science and theory; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Critical perspectives on the law; Employment & labour law: general; Human Rights; Human Rights and International Labour RIghts; Human Rights Due Dilligence; Labour Law/Social Law; Law of global value chains; Open access; Political Science; Political science & theory; Politics and Human Rights; Social law & Medical law; Strategic litigation/public interest litigation; Third world approaches to the law; Transnational Activism; Transnational Law
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• ISBN: 978-3-030-73835-8; 9783030738358
• Access: Open Access

This open access book documents and analyses the various interventions - legal, political, and even artistic - that followed the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2012. It illuminates the different substantive and procedural aspects of the legal proceedings and negotiations between the various local and transnational actors implicated in the Ali Enterprises fire, as well as the legal and policy reforms sparked by the incident. This endeavour serves to embed these legal cases and reform efforts in the larger context of human and labour rights protection and global value chain governance. It also offers a concrete case study relevant for ongoing debates around the role of transnational approaches in making human rights litigation, advocacy, and law reform more effective. In this regard, the book interrogates and critically reflects on such legal campaigns and local and transnational reform work with a view to future transformative legal and social activism.