This episode of the podcast “Belabored” by Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen explores worker organization and the development of worker centers. Michelle Chen discusses the power of the worker-driven social responsibility model to transform working conditions at minute 52:50, using The Milk with Dignity Program, the Fair Food Program, and the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh as cases.

Workers have sorta flipped that (CSR) on its head and said,  “No, workers should be in charge of enforcing labor law and developing these standards because we’re the ones who are most affected by them.” And they’ve come up with really creative ways to work with independent auditing firms to set up a complaint structure.  – Michelle Chen