Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
ABSTRACT Establishing voluntary labor standards depends on securing the voluntary engagement of multiple actors with potentially diverging interests. This paper examines the legitimation politics and processes surrounding attempts to develop local labor standards through an empirical study of local employment charters in England. These forms of soft regulation, promoted by local state actors, ask employers to commit to flexible ‘good’ work principles. We argue that legitimation processes are central to debates around new forms of ‘soft regulation’, highlighting how building legitimacy entails compromises and potential legitimacy risks for others.
Hughes et al. (Thu,) studied this question.