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Beyond CSR? : Business, poverty and social justice ; an introduction / Peter Newell and Jedrezj George Frynas. - S. 669-681 Reasons to be cheerful? : What we know about CSR's impact / Michael Blowfield. - S. 683-695 CSR and equality / Peter Utting. - S. 697-712 Do workers benefit from ethical trade? : Assessing codes of labour practice in global production systems / Stephanie Barrientos and Sally Smith. - S. 713-729 Beyond women workers : gendering CSR / Ruth Pearson. - S. 731-749 The UN global compact and substantive equality for women : revealing a 'well hidden' mandate / Maureen A. Kolgour. - S. 751-773 CSR and regulation : towards a framework for understanding private standards initiatives in the agri-food chain / Anne Tallontire. - S. 775-791 Globalising justice within coffee supply chains? : Fair trade, Starbucks and the transformation of supply chain governance / Kate Macdonald. - S. 793-812 BP in Azerbaidjan : a test of the potential and limits of the CSR agenda? / Lars H. Gulbrandsen and Arild Moe. - S. 813-830 Questioning CSR in the Brazilian atlantic forest : the case of Aracruz Celulose SA / David Fig. - S. 831-849 Monsanto and smallholder farmers : a case study in CSR / Dominic Glover. - S. 851-867

The editors of this volume highlight the role of intermediaries, alongside regulators and targets, as a way to better understand the outcomes of regulatory processes. Here, we explore the benefits of distinguishing a fourth category of actors: the groups whose interests the rules are meant to protect, the (intended) beneficiaries. We apply that framework to nonstate regulation of labor conditions, where the primary intended beneficiaries are workers and their families, especially in poorer countries. We first outline the different ways in which beneficiaries can relate to regulators, intermediaries, and targets; we then develop conjectures about the effect of different relationships on regulatory impacts and democratic legitimacy in relation to corporate power structures, specifically those embedded in the governance of global supply chains. We illustrate these conjectures primarily with examples from three initiatives—Rugmark, the Fair Labor Association, and the Fairtrade system. We conclude that it matters whether and how beneficiaries are included in the regulatory process.

Transnational non-state governance arrangements (NGAs) are increasingly common in areas such as labor standards and environmental sustainability, often presenting themselves as innovative means through which the lives of marginalized communities in developing countries can be improved. Yet in some cases, the policy interventions adopted by the managers of these NGAs appear not to be welcomed by their supposed beneficiaries. This article accounts for this predicament by examining the effects of different configurations of accountability within NGAs promoting labor rights. Most labor-rights NGAs incorporate "proxy accountability" arrangements, in which consumers and activists hold decision makers accountable "on behalf" of the putative beneficiaries of the NGAs: workers and affected communities in poorer countries. The article shows how and why different combinations of proxy versus beneficiary accountability influence the choice of policy instruments used by NGAs, and applies the argument to three prominent non-state initiatives in the domain of labor standards. Adapted from the source document.