ABSTRACT

Countries import goods and services to satisfy their domestic needs, and those goods and services, in turn, require employment and income payments in the producing countries [1]. Following evidence of the appalling working conditions of some of those workers in the producing countries (e.g., the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh [2]) enterprises, governments and international organisations are now working to improve the conditions of workers in their supply chains. For instance, the Dutch government recently 94planned to ban companies that involve children in the production of imported products.