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Endangering women’s health for profit: health and safety in Mexico’s maquiladoras

01/11/1999

6 pages long

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Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was agreed, thousands of maquiladoras (assembly plants) have sprung up along the Mexican side of the Mexico/US border. Around a million workers are subject to violations of their human, labour, and health rights, the author argues, and this is a by-product of `free trade’. Abell advocates worker […]

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Discussion paper

The International Dimensions of Work: Some implications for the UK

01/01/1998

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

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Globalisation, or the expansion of international trade and investment experienced since the early 1980s, has brought gains to some countries and groups of workers, while marginalising and excluding others. This paper argues that some of the causes of and the solutions to the UK’s recent employment problems lie at the international level. Such problems as […]

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Book

The Oxfam Poverty Report

01/01/1995

5 documents

257 pages long

Languages: English

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The Oxfam Poverty Report draws on Oxfam’s experience of working in over 70 countries, to examine the causes of poverty and conflict. It identifies the structural forces which deny people their basic rights, and gives a wide range of examples of the ways in which men and women are bringing about positive change at every […]

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Book

Agricultural Trade and Food Security

01/01/1995

1 documents

111 pages long

Languages: English

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How does a $16,000 subsidy per farmer in the U.S. translate into food insecurity for households in Cagayan Valley? How does a few percentage point rise in grains demand in South Korea drive up meat prices in the wet market of Valencia in Cotabato? This book takes us through the interaction of international trade realities […]

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Journal article

Invisible threads

01/10/1994

6 pages long

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Two case studies from Guatemala and Bangladesh illustrate Oxfam’s Fair Trade programme. This seeks to foster relations between Southern producers and Northern consumers, ensuring the former fair livelihoods, and communicating the fair trade message to the latter. Multiple connecting threads lie at the heart of the programme. The vast majority of participants are women, because […]

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Book

The Trade Trap

01/01/1992

5 documents

256 pages long

Languages: English

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This best-selling book explains how countries that depend on the export of primary commodities, like coffee or cotton, are caught in a trap: the more they produce, the lower the price falls on the international market. If they try to add value to their commodities by processing them, they run into tariff barriers imposed by […]

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Book

The Hunger Crop: Poverty and the sugar industry

01/01/1987

1 documents

122 pages long

Languages: English

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Sugar, tea coffee and palm oil are the backbone of many Third World economies. But the processing and marketing of these commodities is controlled by the rich industrialised nations. This unequal exchange leaves Third World producers highly vulnerable to market conditions – and it is poor people who are hardest hit.

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Book

Common Ground: How changes in the common agricultural policy affect the third world poor

01/01/1987

1 documents

101 pages long

Languages: English

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The picture of mounting European food surpluses set against the constant spectre of Third World food shortages is a familiar one. But the cost of these surpluses and their effect on world trade is leading to increasing pressure for change in the European Community’s agricultural policies.

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