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Liability of social auditors in the textile industry

  • The rise of the social audit industry is symptomatic of a neoliberal culture of voluntary codes of conduct controlled by the private sector.
  • The blind reliance on social audits excludes any real improvement in working conditions in the factories. At best, social audits have an illustrative value.
  • Sustainable control of working conditions requires both trade union organisation of workers and effective control by state labour inspections. As long as there are only private audits, companies, factory owners and testing companies must assume liability. However, the private sector controls without liability have led to a system without real control of the quality of the social audits, which also denies the workers the necessary remedies.

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