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  Company Codes of Conduct, What Are They? How Can We Use Them?

  1999

  Workers who make mass-produced goods (clothing, sport shoes and toys) sold in Europe and North America often work long hours of forced overtime, with exposure to hazards, for low wages, and with trade union rights commonly suppressed. Consumers have become aware of this and are putting pressure on manufacturers and shops to improve workers' situations.
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  Is there Anyone Listening? Women Workers in Factories in Central America, and Corporate Codes of Conduct

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

  Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a new 'buzzword'. An important development in CSR following consumer pressure in the North (for example boycotts) is the development of voluntary company codes of conduct.
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  Gender, Power and Post-structuralism in Corporate Citizenship. A Personal Perspective on Theory and Change

  BRIDGE, 2002

  There has been a remarkable spread of initiatives and standards relating to the concept of ?corporate citizenship? in recent years, both in the North and the South. Much of this activity has focused on trying to create legislative and policy responses to address problems of inequity and exclusion. Yet there has been little overt discussion of power.
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  Participatory Social Auditing: a Practical Guide to Developing a Gender-Sensitive Approach

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Female workers are more likely to be in insecure, non-permanent employment, with increased vulnerability to gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Participatory approaches to social auditing of compliance to labour codes can help us uncover such complex issues.
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  A Gendered Value Chain Approach To Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture

  2003

  Codes of conduct designed to regulate the employment conditions of Southern producers exporting to European markets were rapidly adopted throughout the 1990s - especially in the horticulture sector linking European supermarkets with export firms in Africa.
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  Trade liberalisation policy

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  Trade liberalisation (decreasing restrictions on trade) has taken place through several policy frameworks over the past ten years. In addition to the rules of the WTO, trade liberalisation has also been a key factor of World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes. Advocates of such policies argue that trade liberalisation should increase a country's growth and incomes.
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  Best practice guidelines for creating a culture of gender equality in the private sector

  Commission on Gender Equality, South Africa, 1998

  This guide is designed to highlight and promote the involvement of private business in achieving gender equality, including business leaders, policymakers, human resource managers and other business specialists.
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  Action research: garment industry supply chains

  Women Working Worldwide, 2003

  This manual, aimed at researchers, gives practical guidance on how to conduct action research that will promote and support workers' rights, focusing on garment industry supply chains.
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  Citizenship: towards a feminist synthesis

  Feminist Review, 1997

  This article outlines how citizenship can be used as a political and theoretical tool by combining 'rights' and 'participation'. Participation in social, economic, cultural and political decision-making provides a more dynamic and active form of rights in which people work together to improve their quality of life.
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  Promoting Gender Equality. A Resource Kit for Trade Unions

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This toolkit has been designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members and ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals . Trade unions have a role in protecting workers from all types of discrimination, including that based on gender.

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