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    Who pays?: how British supermarkets are keeping women workers in poverty

    ActionAid International, 2007
    This report discusses the supply chains that link UK supermarkets to producers in developing countries. The report argues that the structure of the supermarket supply chains has changed in recent years in ways that allow supermarkets to “cherry pick” suppliers from developing economies.
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    Do workers in Chile choose informal employment? A dynamic analysis of sector choice

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    To asses the coverage of Chile’s social insurance and pensions plan, this paper examines shifts in the country's labour market during a period of economic contraction. Employment in the formal sector requires workers to save for social insurance, while the self-employed can choose whether and how to save and the informal workers are responsible for their own pension.
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    Harvest of shame

    National Labor Committee, USA, 2007
    This report documents the exploitation of child labour in Guatemala.
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    Undue influence: corporations gain ground in battle over China's new labor law: but human rights and labor advocates are pushing back

    Global Labor Strategies, 2007
    This paper describes the behind-the-scenes battle that is raging over reforms in China’s labour law. U.S.-based and other global corporations have been aggressively lobbying the Chinese government to weaken or abandon significant pro-worker reforms it had proposed in March 2006.
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    Labour standards in China: best practice guidelines

    2007
    This report serves as a guide for pension fund trustees and officers to review their fund manager’s engagement on labour standards in China.
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    ISEAL Alliance

    The International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance (ISEAL) is an association of leading voluntary international standard-setting and conformity assessment organisations
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    Ergon focus on labour: March 2007

    Ergon, 2007
    This edition of Ergon’s bi-monthly newsletter looks in detail at the array of current initiatives addressing sustainability issues for agricultural commodities.
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    Clean computers campaign: report on labour rights in the computer industry in China

    Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, 2006
    This briefing highlights findings from an investigation of 13 Shenzhen electronics factories producing components for many well-known brand names.
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    Close to slavery: guestworker programs in the United States

    Southern Poverty Law Center, 2007
    This paper discusses the exploitation faced by ‘guestworkers’ in the United States. The paper argues that the rights of guestwokers – temporary workers from largely Latin American countries, particularly Mexico - are not adequately protected.Unlike U.S.
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    Growing pain: the human cost of cut flowers in British supermarkets

    War on Want, 2007
    This report presents the results of research and consultation with workers in Colombia and Kenya who grow the cut flowers sold by the major supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The research reveals the true human cost of the flowers sold to consumers in the UK.

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