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There exist three bodies of literature examining worker treatment and productivity, multinational supply chains, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). These three bodies are connected to explore the relationship between how multinational firms in the apparel industry treat their domestic workers and the working conditions in their supplier factories. The author created a unique data set ... read morecombining factory audits from the ILO’s and the IFC’s Better Work Program and buyer characteristic data collected by the author. Through regression analysis, this thesis finds that there is a relationship between the worker treatment methods used by firms for domestic workers and the compliance rates in their supplier factories. Additionally, there is evidence that the techniques firms use to signal to the public that they have good factories does not indicate better working conditions.read less
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