Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains : The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and the Struggle for Justice

This open access book documents and analyses the various interventions – legal, political, and even artistic – that followed the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2012.

Introduction - Transnational Law and Advocacy around Labour and Human Rights Litigation.- Part 1: The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and its aftermath - Litigations, campaigning and transnational collaboration .- Loss and Legibility - A conversation with Saeeda Khatoon.- Legal Interventions and Transnational Alliances in the Ali Enterprises Case - Struggles for Workers'' Rights in Global Supply Chains.- Paradoxes of Strategic Labour Rights Litigation: Insights from the Baldia Factory Fire Litigation.- After the Ali Enterprises fire: Occupational safety and health and workers'' organising - A conversation with Zehra Khan about current and future struggles.- Pakistan''s "Industrial 9/11" - Transnational rights-based activism in the garment industry and creating space for future global struggles.- The Land of Mourning - A conversation with Adeela Suleman.- Four against KiK - A conversation with Caspar Dohmen.- Part 2: Labour and Tort Law Aspects of Global Supply Chains.- The Rana Plaza collapse and the case for Enforceable Agreements with Apparel Brands.- Trade Union Approaches to Global Value Chains - The Indonesian Experience.- Transnational labour law? "Corporate social responsibility" and the Law.- Tort Law and Human Rights. - Part 3: Critical Perspectives on Law and Litigation.- Confined Employment: Exploring Labor Marginalization in Workplace Safety.- The KiK case: A critical perspective from the South.- From Strategic Litigation to Juridical Action.- Toward a Strategic Engagement with the Question of the Corporation: A Critique of Business and Human Rights.