Daniel Brinks - Power, Participation, and Private Regulatory Initiatives: Human Rights Under Supply Chain Capitalism

PENNSYLVANIA STUDIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS

Bert B. Lockwood, Series Editor

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Human Rights Under Supply Chain Capitalism

EDITED BY

Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle, and Kate Taylor

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ISBN 978-0-8122-5321-4

Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle, and Kate Taylor

Justine Nolan

Farai Maguwu

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Charles R. Hale and Jos Aylwin

Geisselle Vanessa Snchez Monge

Sean Sellers

Jessica Champagne

Erika George

James J. Brudney

Dan Danielsen

Lauren Fielder

Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle, and Kate Taylor

Our first thanks are due to the authorsacademics, practitioners, and activistswho contributed to this volume. Their work has enriched and deepened our understanding of private regulatory initiatives and the political economy in which they operate. We are thankful to them for their willingness to engage with, and reflect upon, the insights from each others work and for their patience during the long process involved in bringing this book to fruition.

This collection arises out of two events convened by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin to examine the enforcement of human rights through private regulatory regimes in global supply chains: Certifiably Fair: Can Consumers Monitor Human Rights? and Certifying Human Rights in Global Supply Chains. Both events put scholars in conversation with practitioners and connected people from various regions, industries, and disciplines; the second provided the opportunity to workshop many of the essays included in this collection.

We are enormously grateful to everyone at the Rapoport Center who helped make these convenings and the book arising out of them possible. Particular thanks are due to Rapoport Center assistant director Sarah Eliason and former assistant director William Chandler, who coordinated the logistics of the workshops, the work of student researchers and copy editors, and the final preparation of the manuscript.

We are indebted to a number of Rapoport Center interns and human rights scholars who contributed research to the book and who copyedited chapters at various stages. Special thanks to Elizabeth Hamilton for her thorough work in copyediting and finalizing the manuscript for publication. Other students who worked on the project include Sofie Bonilla, Aaron Burroughs, Bethany Copeland, Xavier Durham, Meraal Hakeem, Annie Bares, Monica Mohseni, Kevin Trahan, Allison Gordon Wright, and Julie Wilson.

We are also grateful for the support of the University of Pennsylvania Press. Peter Agree and Bert Lockwood encouraged the project from its earliest stages. Jerome Singerman made sure the manuscript saw its way to publication. Our outside reviewers provided invaluable feedback for individual chapters as well as the book as a whole.

Each of us thanks our coeditors for engaged, sustained conversation on these themes and all the hard work involved in systematizing, organizing, and articulating the key arguments and insights of the collection. Finally, we are all thankful to the friends, family members, and colleagues who have supported this project and encouraged us throughout this long process, including through the challenges posed by transcontinental moves, new jobs, family and other commitments, and a global pandemic we encountered along the way.

Private Regulatory Initiatives, Human Rights, and Supply Chain Capitalism