The 2013 Rana Plaza disaster led to an unprecedented initiative based on principles of industrial democracy to prevent future factory deaths in the Bangladesh garment sector. Yet, write Juliane Reinecke and Jimmy Donaghey, the success of the initiative depends on whether transnational and local actors cooperate and whether a market-driven approach to labour rights renders effective in the absence of a disaster
Professor of Human Resource Management, University of South Australia
Jimmy has been in his current post since January 2020.
He received his PhD on social partnership in Ireland from Queen's University Belfast, where he subsequently held a lectureship in management from 2002–2010.
In 2010, he joined the University of Warwick as Associate Professor in international and comparative employment relations, and was a member of the Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU).
He was promoted to Professor in 2015.
Jimmy's research interests focus on the effects of globalisation on the employment relationship and worker voice.
This has included examining social pacts in the context of globalisation, the role of the EU in employment relations governance and laterally on the governance of employment standards in global supply chains.
His main current research focus is on the developments in transnational governance of workplace health and safety post Rana Plaza in the Bangladesh garment sector.
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