ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the two interrelated private methods of improving labour conditions corporate social responsibility (CSR) and consumer based labour campaigns have failed to improve the conditions of workers. The chapter highlights some of the problems with CSR and consumer-based campaigns before describing the development of triangular solidarity. Based upon this analysis, it believe that there are three avenues of progress for labour organizations. The first, it must attempts to demystify CSR through whatever forums are at our disposal in order to demonstrate its flaws and discourage reliance upon it as a mechanism for improving labour conditions. The second is that it needs to generate our own, common standards, and enforces during negotiations with corporations, instead of monitoring standards which corporations themselves have generated. The outcomes of the campaign were mixed and see the evaluations of campaigns conducted by European organizations compared with Asian organizations diverged greatly in emphasis and, thus, the conclusions they reached.
