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This paper analyzes the case of the ILO's Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) project as a transnational instrument to create the institutions necessary for industrial relations. Based on the principle of social dialogue among the social partners (the national Government and workers' and employers' organizations) and global buyers, BFC's multi-stakeholder approach reaches beyond the workplace and may be a key industrial relations instrument because it bridges the gap between the sphere of production and that of consumption. The empirical results reveal some of the particular strengths of the program.