Levi's Children: Coming to Terms With Human Rights in the Global Marketplace

Schoenberger, Karl

ISBN 10: 0871138093 / ISBN 13: 9780871138095

Published by Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Levi's Children: Coming to Terms With Human Rights in the Global Marketplace
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871138093
• ISBN 13: 9780871138095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

A veteran journalist takes a thought-provoking look at the conflict among human rights, corporate social responsibility, and economic demands, as he examines the case of Levi Strauss & Company, which, because of soaring costs and competition, has been forced to move production overseas to regions known for sweatshop abuse and political repression.

About the Author

Karl Schoenberger has written about business, politics and economic development in East Asia throughout his two-decade career in journalism, working as a a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and Fortune magazine. More recently, he was a teaching fellow at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, a visiting scholar at UC's Human Rights Center, and subsequently an assistant business editor for technology at the San Jose Mercury News. Currently he's writing articles about social and cultural dimensions of the Internet Economy as a contributing writer for The Industry Standard, and working on his next book. He is a Stanford University graduate in Japanese language & literature and a 1995 Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard University. Schoenberger lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, urban planning advocate Susan Kuramoto Moffat, and their two young daughters.