Beyond structural injustice: Pursuing justice for workers in post‐pandemic global value chains.
The COVID‐19 pandemic has exacerbated underlying and pre‐existing social, political, and economic conditions that make their negative effects both more likely and more negative, particularly for workers in global value chains (GVCs). In our conceptual and normative paper, we encourage a rethinking o...
| Published in: | Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 969 - 981 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2022
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