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  International Labour Standards, Codes of Conduct and Gender Issues: A Review of Recent Debates and Controversies

  Brill Academic Publishers, 2003

  The increase in international networks of production, centred around multinational corporations (MNCs) has led to calls for greater levels of protection for workers. This paper suggests that, states are now less able to enforce national labour standards as they are keen to attract foreign investment through MNCs.
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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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  Part-time Work in Chile. Is it Precarious Employment - Reflections from a Gender Perspective

  United Nations, 2000

  Changes in labour market structure as a result of economic globalisation have resulted in new ?non-standard? forms of labour which are often associated with low-quality or precarious employment. This study considers a particular example of non-standard employment - part-time work in the context of Chile.
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  STITCH (website)

  STITCH, 1990

  STITCH is a network of women unionists, organisers, and activists who are working to build connections between Central American and US women organising for economic justice. In Central America, STITCH provides support to women workers before, during, and after union organising campaigns by carrying out training exchanges and leadership development workshops.
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  Women Working Worldwide Website

  1990

  Women Working Worldwide (WWW) is a UK based organisation which works with an international network of women workers' organisations to support the rights of women working in international production chains. The WWW website provides information about project activities, campaigns, publications (which can be ordered by post) and forthcoming events, as well as links to related sites.
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  A Gender Perspective on Core Labour Standards in Ethical Trading Initiative Company Supply Chains

  BRIDGE, 2004

  To what extent does having core labour standards help to address the specific concerns of women workers - for example, for child care provision, maternity benefit, safe transport?
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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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