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    Deliberate indifference: El Salvador’s failure to protect workers’ rights

    Human Rights Watch, 2003
    This report explores human rights abuses of workers in El Salvador. Supported by the use of eight representative case studies, the report illustrates how workers are abused with virtual impunity.
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    The globalisation of labour standards

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004
    In the light of an increased integration of the world economy, this paper examines the globalisation of labour standards.
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    Turning a blind eye: hazardous child labor in El Salvador’s sugarcane cultivation

    Human Rights Watch, 2004
    This report discusses the hazardous child labour conditions in El Salvador’s sugarcane cultivation.
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    Clean up your computer: working conditions in the electronics sector

    Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004
    This paper analyses the labour standards and working conditions in computing manufacturing, particularly in developing countries where many stages of computer production are carried out by low-skilled and low-paid workers.The paper finds that unlike their counterparts in the clothing and footwear sector, computer companies have thus far escaped scrutiny on labour issues.
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    Trading away our rights: women working in global supply chains

    Oxfam, 2004
    While much research has focused on the content of labour codes of conduct and how suppliers meet them, this paper argues that in practice it is the supply-chain purchasing practices of the large companies themselves that undermine the labour standards the codes claim to support.The paper argues that a new model of business practice that requires increasing flexibility through "just-in-time" del
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    Codes of conduct, government regulation and worker organizing

    Maquila Solidarity Network, 2000
    This paper examines the advantages and limitations of voluntary codes of conduct, which have become prominent as labour standards and working conditions in consumer products industries have deteriorated in the wake of trade liberalisation and globalisation, and restructuring of production and distribution.The paper argues that there are legitimate grounds to be sceptical about the usefulness o
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    Small change: bonded child labour in India’s silk industry

    Human Rights Watch, 2003
    This report is a survey of child labour in the silk industry in India.
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    Workers’ tool or PR ploy? A guide to codes of international labour practice

    Dialogue on globalisation, 2003
    Ethical production and consumption is the aim of several trade-related initiatives launched in recent years, including social labelling, WTO campaigns, framework agreements and codes of conduct.
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    Labor standards and the Free Trade Area of the Americas

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 2003
    The real debate over labour standards is how and with what urgency to promote the core labour standards. In this debate the questions include a) whether universal means uniform and what that implies for development, and b) whether implementation and enforcement of global labour standards should be explicitly linked to trade agreements.
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    Organized labour in the 21st century

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countries namely, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Niger, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia and USA.

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