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  Social Corporate Responsibility and the Role of the Women's Movement

  Women's Human Right's Net, 2004

  International corporations continue to move production zones to developing countries to benefit from cheap labour and poor standards. Conditions often include low wages, long hours, unsanitary and dangerous working conditions, sexual harassment, verbal and physical abuse, and the prohibition of unionising.
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  The Hidden Assembly Line: Gender Dynamics of Subcontracted Work in a Global Economy

  Kumarian Press, 2002

  There has been growing interest among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Asia to better contextualise their labour organising work within a global economic framework. Activists were finding that solely localised organising strategies could not keep up with the effects of the constantly changing structures of global markets.
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  Power in Global Value Chains: Implications for Employment and Livelihoods in the Cashew Nut Industry in India, Summary Report

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  Employers take advantage of women's cheaper labour to lower their costs, and while employment in particular for women workers is essential for survival, it still does not pay enough to raise households out of poverty. This report explores the impacts of an expanding cashew nut market on the livelihoods of women workers in India.
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  Misfortune 500 - website

  2006

  MisFortune 500, a new website launched by the Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO), aims to: expose corporate activities which violate women's rights, workers' rights and the environment; promote corporate accountability mechanisms; strengthen women's networking and engagement; and publicise women's resistance and alternatives to corporate globalisation.
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  Gender and Codes of Conduct: A Case Study from Horticulture in South Africa

  Christian Aid, 2006

  Corporate codes of conduct have become an increasingly important issue, particularly since the formation of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) in 1997. Supermarkets are playing a key role within the ETI, and the main UK supermarkets are in the process of introducing codes of conduct to their suppliers.
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  Chilean Women. Trends in the Last Decade (1992-2002 Census)

  Servicio Nacional de la Mujer, 2004

  This study uses the information and data from the 2002 National Census to analyse how women and men interact in Chile in different domains. The aim is to unpack some aspects of social reality to identify the structural gender inequalities that affect all people, but especially women, and to use the findings to inform public policy in order to enable real change in gender relations.
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  Work Transforms Itself. Relations of Production and of Gender

  Centro de Estudio de la Mujer - Honduras, 2004

  As a result of economic liberalisation and globalisation, employment has taken new forms. How do these changes interact with reproduction in Chilean society? This book argues that flexible work is often good for workers, but for women workers it is not always an option.
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  Working Relations of a New Kind, a Gender Approach

  Servicio Nacional de la Mujer, 2004

  Economic liberalisation has led to many different forms of employment, such as part-time work, flexible working days, telework, and home-based work. Employment has also become less stable and often brings with it low and variable income and a lack of social protection. All of this affects women and men differently.
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  The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparison Perspective

  Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2006

  Despite major advances in the education of the female labour force in Chile relative to males, gender differences in wages still exist. This paper analyses the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period of 1992 to 2003 using the 'decomposition approach' developed in ¥opo, 2004.
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  If you Want to Help us then Start Listening to us! From Factories and Plantations Women Speak out about Corporate Responsibility

  2002

  Ethical trade in Central America has mainly come about as a result of campaigns in the United States, and partly in Europe. Campaigns have focused on the rights and welfare of factory workers who supply a wide range of US brand names and retailers.

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