Trading away our rights
Subtitle: women working in global supply chains
By: [written by Kate Raworth ; edited by Anna Coryndon].
Contributors: Coryndon, Anna.
Publisher: Oxfam International
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Women employees -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions.; Women employees -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.; Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Developing countries.; Wages -- Women -- Developing countries.; Business logistics -- Developing countries.
Description: "This report reveals the double standards at the heart of the corporate practices that are emerging under globalisation. Companies' demands for faster, more flexible, and cheaper production in their supply chains are undermining the very labour standards that they claim to be promoting. Women workers - and their families - pay the price. Many face insecure contracts, intense production pressure, and intimidation in the workplace. Governments, competing to attract investment and boost exports, have too often exacerbated the problem. Instead of strengthening protection for labour rights, they have simply traded them away."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-99).
Cover title.