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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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  Social protection in the informal economy: home-based women workers and outsourced manufacturing in Asia

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002

  There has been an increasing ?informalisation? of the labour force in developing countries over the past few decades. This means that increasing numbers of workers are engaged in unregulated, uncontracted work which is often casual or temporary in nature. Simultaneously there has been greater participation of women in the labour market.
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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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