Books
Recent Articles
Co-authored with Greg Distelhorst, “Labour standards in Asian export factories: Does compliance pay?” VoxDev, July 5, 2019.
Co-author with Greg Distelhorst, “Does Compliance Pay? Firm-level Trade and Social Institutions,”American Journal of Political Science, June 2018. Received American Political Science Association 2018 Dorothy Day Award for Outstanding Labor Research.
Co-author with Hiram Samel, “Beyond The Workplace: "Upstream" Business Practices and Labor Standards in the Global Electronics Industry,” Studies in Comparative International Development, December 2017.
Co-author with Greg Distelhorst and Jens Hainmueller, “Does Lean Improve Labor Standards? Management and Social Performance in the Nike Supply Chain,” Management Science, 2017, 63:3 , 707-728.
Co-author with Greg Distelhorst, Hiram Samel, and Timea Pal, “Production Goes Global, Compliance Stays Local: Private Regulation in the Global Electronics Industry," Regulation and Governance, Volume 9, Issue 3, pages 224–242, September 2015.
Author, “Critical Dialogue,” a Review of Political Consumerism: Global Responsibility in Action. By Dietlind Stolle and Michele Micheletti. Perspectives on Politics. American Political Science Association. Vol. 14, No. 2 (June 2016): 519-520.
Co-author with Salo Coslovsky, “Parallel Paths to Enforcement: Private Compliance, Public Regulation, and Labor Standards in the Brazilian Sugar Sector,” Politics and Society, Vol.41, No. 4 (December 2013): 497-526.
Co-author with Ben Rissing and Timea Pal, “Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Enforcement of Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains,” 50th Anniversary issue of The British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.51, No.3 (September 2013): 519-552.
Editorials
How waiting longer for an iPhone could help workers , South China Morning Post, October 18, 2012.
Other Recent Publications
Richard M. Locke, “Deliberation and University Governance: The Case of Brown University’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan," in Ideas That Matter: Democracy, Justice, Rights, Debra Satz and Annabelle Leven, eds., (Oxford University Press, 2019).
“We live in a world of global supply chains,” in Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Practice, Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and Justine Nolan, eds., (Routledge, 2016) 299-316.
“Private Regulation (and its limitations) in the Global Economy,” in The Politics of Representation in the Global Age, Peter Hall, Wade Jacoby, Johan Levy, and Sophie Meunier, eds., (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014): 200-228.
“Looking in the wrong direction? Reflections on Italy’s most recent ‘crisis’,” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 19. N. 4 (2014): 375-379.
“Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?” Boston Review, Vol. 38, No. 3 (May-June 2013): 12-18.