Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Labor Governance: Organizing, Legal Mobilization and Decolonization

Labor movements around the world have explored various forms of global labor governance mechanisms to hold multinational companies accountable for ensuring workers’ and human rights throughout their supply chains. This article examines H&M’s Global Framework Agreement (H&M GFA) its implementation in three Asian producing countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India develop some insights on governance. H&M commits foster trade union but is not legally obligated take steps actualize those rights. The contextualizes signify GFAs importance within international law by referring business instruments utilizing a social movement perspective. Drawing from main oriented theoretical disciplines: organizing, legal mobilization decolonization, this paper evaluates GFA generally. pays particular attention GFAs’ impact gender because majority workers garment industry are women. In context, must be strengthened binding enforce fundamental right freedom association, collective bargaining non-discrimination. They proactively involve national unions negotiation, implementation, enforcement agreement ensure full participation seek meaningful input socio-political context countries. conceived with grassroots, multi-layered approach enable factory level exercise power agency establish standards resolve disputes, form worker-led organizations such as unions, facilitate procedures that corporations. Further, industry, address related concerns provide clear avenues women raise these issues. Notwithstanding challenges GFAs, among strategies law, it has most promise actualizing