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The practice is often seen as archaic, yet experience in many different global contexts suggests that similar practices are widespread. Evlatliks are neither officially recognised by policy-makers for the vital work they do, nor recognised as true family […] View resource Journal article Politics at work: transnational advocacy networks and the global garment industry 01/11/2005 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning GaD Gender and Development Journal Labour standards Overview In the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of women and girls, from El Salvador to Lesotho, have earned their livelihoods by sewing clothes for the global garment industry. With the phasing out of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) at the end of 2004, many of these women face the prospect of unemployment. The use of […] View resource Journal article Leveraging change in the working conditions of UK homeworkers 01/06/2005 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Labour standards Overview The debate among NGO and union activists about how to improve working conditions and labour rights has been dominated by proponents of specific approaches, arguing variously that the best route is through company codes, legislation, organisation of workers, or sweatshop-style campaigning. This article describes a campaign by NGOs and trade unions that integrates these approaches […] View resource Journal article Implementing ILO child labour convention 182: lessons from the gold-mining sector in Burkina Faso 01/02/2005 11 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Labour standards Overview This article explores the implementation of Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the mining sector in Burkina Faso. It highlights key lessons from a project funded by DFID and Save the Children UK and implemented by COBUFADE, a Burkinabe NGO. Children were found to be important and capable actors in the […] View resource Journal article Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen special economic zone, China 01/07/2004 8 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Labour standards Migration Overview In spite of the increase in transnational codes of conduct and legal mobilisation of labour, despotic labour regimes in China are still prevalent. Globalisation and ‘race to the bottom’ production strategies adopted by transnational corporations militate against the improvement of labour relations in China. The goal of this study is to provide a framework for […] View resource Journal article Corporate responsibility and women’s employment: the case of cashew nuts 01/07/2004 6 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Corporate responsibility GaD Gender and Development Journal Labour standards Overview We know that falling international prices and the exploitative practices of buyers and retailers have had a negative impact on the wages and working conditions of workers in developing countries. This short piece discusses an exceptional example of better practice in the cashew nut industry in Mozambique, which demonstrates that collaboration between government, companies, and […] View resource Journal article Global trade and homework: closing the divide 01/07/2004 7 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Labour standards Overview Home work has re-emerged as a new form of subcontracted production. Promoted through global capital, it relies on sweatshop labour conditions to cut costs and maintain workers in a vulnerable state. There are now an estimated 300 million home workers in the global workforce, who are part of the growing informal employment sector. In many […] View resource Journal article Good jobs’ and hidden costs: women workers documenting the price of precarious employment 01/07/2004 10 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Labour standards Overview This article describes the precarious terms and conditions of employment experienced by millions of women working in global supply chains in the food and garment industries, and describes the main forces leading to that precariousness. It then presents a typology of costs and determinants of precarious employment, in the form of a matrix, which serves […] View resource Journal article ‘Marriage’ to capital: the fallback positions of Fiji’s women garment workers 01/06/2004 13 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Labour standards Overview The May 2000 coup in Fiji prompted a flight of capital from the country’s garment industry. As workers lost their jobs, attention turned away from improving wages and conditions to retaining garment factory jobs in the country. What can feminist researchers contribute in a climate of high capital mobility that prohibits organising for a living […] View resource Briefing paper Made at Home: British homeworkers in the global supply chain 06/05/2004 1 documents 38 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Labour standards Livelihoods World Bank and IMF Overview No minimum wage, no sick pay, no maternity leave, no redundancy pay, forced overtime, no health and safety checks: this is the story of women around the world working to supply British supermarkets and retailers – the story told by Oxfam International in the report Trading Away Our Rights. It is the story of how […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 … Page 11 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know