https://theloop.ecpr.eu/what-can-we-make-of-transnational-industrial-democracy-after-the-2013-rana-plaza-disaster/

Consider this quote (from the essay linked above), by Juliane Reinecke and Jimmy Donaghey:

"The global supply chain model has become the dominant mode of value creation in the global economy. But global supply chains are challenging for democracy. As Adrian Bua explains in this series, this is caused by the de-democratisation demand that such supply chains place upon governments and transnational regulatory authorities. Further, cross-national boundaries undermine democratic oversight. They bind state regulation, as well as workplace-level democratic participation."

This means that major economic trade systems pose problems for democracies. The places of work and movement of goods in the world from big businesses do, if you trace them, form lines that crisscross the map - so few democratic polities are free from this anti-democratic effect posed by global supply chains.

Reinecke and Donaghey see global accords as potentially the solution to this problem: international agreements between governments, workers, and businesses (essentially the ILO's tripartite format) could lead to putting supply chains into the service of at least certain types of democratic behaviours.

What do you think? Global accords can, for example, be paper/toothless tigers and may not live up to expectations. What change might you make to put big business into the service of some form of democracy?

https://theloop.ecpr.eu/what-can-we-make-of-transnational-industrial-democracy-after-the-2013-rana-plaza-disaster/