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'Tethered Fates' explores the challenge of safeguarding economic rights beyond the factory floor in global supply chains. Drawing on a 7000-company database, it maps trends in company-community interaction through 'stakeholder dialogue.' It features grassroots perspectives from two manufacturing communities in the Dominican Republic, and assesses emerging policy alternatives globally.

Cover -- UNEXPECTED POWER -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 New Dynamics in Transnational Advocacy: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Conflict and Change within Advocacy Networks: Theoretical Underpinnings -- Chapter 3 Child Labor, Child Rights, and Transnational Advocacy: The Case of Bangladesh -- Chapter 4 Discrimination, the Right to Work, and Reproductive Freedom: The Case of Mexico -- Chapter 5 A Decade Later: Assessing Advocacy's Effects over Time -- Chapter 6 Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index

ABSTRACTThis article explores the potential and limits of contemporary economic rights‐based social activism by analysing an ongoing 'Right to Food Campaign' in India. While social movement theory often positions radical and reform strategies as alternatives, the RTF campaign has adopted a hybrid strategy: it has made a radical legal demand that the right to food be recognized as intrinsic to the right to life, while seeking implementation of this right through reform of existing government feeding programmes. The campaign's dual strategy reflects two distinct logics of human rights: a logic of non‐derogable rights that are immediately actionable (such as the right to life) and a logic of progressive implementation of rights that can only be realized fully over time (such as economic rights). This article draws on original data to demonstrate that the campaign's radical legal demands framed around the non‐derogable right to life have come closer to fulfilment than its reformist demands around progressive implementation. The RTF campaign's relative success in galvanizing legal action on hunger is tempered by ongoing challenges in sustaining grassroots‐level mobilization and influencing public policy implementation.

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are an emergent phenomenon in global rule-making on labor rights, yet academic literature on the topic is marked by a lack of clarity on their scope and distinctions. Drawing not only on scholarly sources but also on a wide range of field-level examples, this article explores the origin of PPPs and analyzes the contemporary normative and institutional contexts that have influenced their evolution. It then develops a three-fold typology for mapping the domains in which PPPs exist and for distinguishing among their varied functions. The article also analyzes related challenges of governance and effectiveness.