Time to give up on Corporate Social Responsibility?

By jb94|April 1, 2016|Europe, Global, Latin America, South Asia|0 comments

By Ilona Kelly. Ilona graduated from the MSc in Labour, Social Movements and Development at SOAS in 2012-2013. She is now the Campaigns Director at Labour Behind the Label, an organisation working to improve conditions and empower workers in the global garment industry. Find out more about Labour Behind the Label here and on Twitter @labourlabel. All the views expressed in this article are Ilona’s own, and don’t necessarily reflect

Free Trade Zones: Who wins?

By Rosie Rawle. Rosie is currently studying the MSc Labour, Social Movements and Development part-time. The views expressed in this article are Rosie’s own, and don’t necessarily reflect the views of the SOAS Department of Development Studies. In the tug of war over profits and terms of a new Free Trade Zone (FTZ), who wins? A flick through international relations theory would reveal two seemingly opposing sides – transnational companies (TNCs) at