Abstract

It is commonly assumed that whilst fundamental workers rights are well respected in the industrialised countries, they are scorned in the developing world. In so far as the reality is really for more complex, this analysis, if it cannot stand up to reality, lays itself open to sometimes unintended consequences when it ties the application of social norms to commercial sanctions through social clauses or codes of practise. We move on to a comparison of the application of seven fundamental working standards in order to evaluate the consequences, which could result from the application of clauses or codes of conduct