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    The cocoa protocol: success or failure?

    International Labor Rights Forum, 2008
    This document reviews the outcome of a policy instrument drafted in 2001, the “Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative Products,” also known as the Harkin-Engel Protocol.
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    Footloose investors – investing in the garment industry in Africa

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2007
    Sub-Saharan African countries have been able to attract a huge investment in garment industry by offering a variety of incentives. But what have been the consequences of attracting what is known to be an unstable, footloose industry, on their economies and workers? 
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    Labour conditions in IKEA's supply chain - case studies in Bangladesh and Vietnam

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006
    This paper presents the findings of a study on the working conditions in IKEA’s suppliers in Bangladesh and Vietnam. It assesses the working conditions in the factories by comparing them with the standards as prescribed in IKEA’s code of conduct for supplier companies. The study covers seven factories – four in Bangladesh and three in Vietnam.
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    Key feminist concerns regarding core labor standards, decent work and corporate social responsibility

    Women in Development Europe, 2008
    This paper discusses the gendered nature of measures such as international labour standards, decent work approach and corporate social responsibility, and highlights its implications for women workers in developing countries. It is primarily a study of the existing literature, both academic and official - in this area.
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    Let’s clean up fashion 2008

    Labour Behind the Label, 2008
    This is the third report in the past three years on the conditions of fashion workers brought out by Labour Behind the Label. The authors say that in three years there has been definite progress, not only in rhetoric but also in the beginnings of tangible work on the ground.
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    Building national campaigns: activists, alliances, and how change happens 

    Oxfam, 2007
    Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multiple challenges.
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    Organised labour and the social regulation of global value chains

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    Since the 1980s, various processes of economic globalisation have eroded established foundations of organised labour. The increased mobility of goods and capital, compared to labour’s relative immobility, has made it more difficult for labour to advance its objectives through traditional local industrial action or tripartite social contracts.
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    Localising private social standards: standard initiatives in Kenyan cut flowers

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
    Private Social Standards (PSSs) covering the employment conditions of Southern producers exporting to European markets have multiplied rapidly since the 1990s. Most PSS initiatives have been designed in the North. Lately, however, a range of Southern standard initiatives have emerged in the African horticultural industry.
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    Clearing the hurdles : steps to improving wages and working conditions in the global sportswear industry.

    Play Fair 2008 Campaign, 2008
    Across the global sportswear industry, workers manufacturing sports apparel, footwear and soccer balls face poor working conditions and substantial violation of rights. This report which brought to focus the sports workers’ problems just before the recent Olympics 2008 is based on interviews with sportswear workers in China, India, Thailand and Indonesia, besides various secondary sources.
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    Extending health and safety protection to informal workers: an analysis of small scale mining in KwaZulu-Natal

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008
    This research report was originally a dissertation written for the Masters in Development Studies course at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The study explores the potential extension of occupational health and safety to informal small scale miners in South Africa.

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