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Labouring for global markets: CSR lessons from a South Indian textile export cluster, Global Insights Briefing, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.
University of Sussex, UK, 2010This briefing explores the ways in which Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies affect labour regimes and the lives of workers at manufacturing sites in the Global South. It describes workers’ reactions to these policies, and the choices they make when faced with different regimes of work.DocumentIssues in labour market inequality and women’s participation in India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme
International Labour Organization, 2011The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGP or NREGP), functions as an income supplement for poor households by providing 100 days of work to a rural household, with 33 per cent of all workdays reserved for women workers.DocumentOccupational health and safety and the poorest
Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 2011This report addresses the role of employment in efforts to reduce poverty in the context of increased globalisation and its impacts on labour markets. Worldwide, countries are experiencing a decline of jobs with secure and lasting contracts and work-related social benefits.DocumentSpotlight on publications: labour market policies in Latin America
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013The publications presented in this Spotlight represent some of the key resources dealing with issues related to labour market policies in Latin America. The selected publications focus on the following topics: Gender and Labour; Impact Evaluations; Labour Intermediation Services; Active and Passive Labour Market Policies and Programmes; and Labour Market Regulations and Development.DocumentToolkit - 16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence
2015This toolkit is a step-by-step simple guide on how a company can tackle an issue that impacts health, wellbeing, absence and turn over in the workplace. Companies can address 16 Days in myriad of ways, by either hosting a huge campaign or right down to simply sending a tweet.DocumentInterventions to Improve the labour market situation of adults with physical and/or sensory disabilities in low- and middle-income countries: a Systematic Review
The Campbell Collaboration, 2015Disability is a development issue, with widespread poverty, inequality and violation of human rights. Recent estimates suggest that more than one billion people are living with some form of disability.DocumentThe impact of an adolescent girls employment program: the EPAG Project in Liberia
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2014Fourteen years of civil war in Liberia devastated the country’s infrastructure and institutions, and left a generation of young people with very low levels of education and training.DocumentActive labour market policies in Latin America
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013In Latin America, active labour market policies are helping to improve access to decent jobs by disadvantaged workers and are also demonstrating the potential to reduce informality, underemployment and inequality.DocumentLabour market information programmes
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013How can Labour Market Information Programmes improve the coverage, quality and efficiency of labour markets?DocumentCaptured by cotton: exploited Dalit girls produce garments in India for European and US markets
Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2011Over the past decade, the garment industry in Tamil Nadu has experienced major growth. Thousands of small and medium sized factories are involved in the complex process of turning cotton into clothing. Girls and young women are recruited and employed on a large scale to work in the garment industry.Pages