Levi's Children: Coming to Terms With Human Rights in the Global Marketplace

By Karl Schoenberger

Book Overview

In a cost-cutting move, Levi Strauss and Company sourced some production to overseas sweatshops. Using the company's painful lesson as a guide, a veteran journalist offers a highly readable assessment of the challenge that the human rights scourge poses to international business.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871138093
• ISBN13: 9780871138095
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Insightful on Human Rights

This book is a must read for anyone interested in the issue of human rights. It offers a compelling tale of one company's struggle to do the right thing while still remaining globally competitive. This is an issue that will only grow more important with time. Capitalism may be an efficient mechanism for shareholders in American but it may not necessarily be the answer for the developing world.

Human Rights Activists - Read this book!

This book is extremely timely in light of efforts in recent years to sue American companies in Federal Court for complicity in HR violations in developing countries; case in point is the effort to sue Shell for its activities in Nigeria under the Alien Tort Claims Act. It seems that profit becomes a talisman allowing companies to ignore their role in perpetuating Human Rights. An important book.