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Promoting Women Workers' Rights in African Horticulture
Overview of research into conditions on horticulture farms in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda, Sept 2007
£5.00This document is an overview of research into working conditions on horticultural farms collated by our partners during our three year project in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Tanzania. It includes an introduction fo the project, overview of the sector, research findings, gender analysis and recommendations.
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Overview of research into conditions on horticulture farms in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda, Sept 2007: Research Summary
FreeThis 4 page document is a summary of the above report (research overview) and includes a summary of of our research, activities and recommendations from the project "Promoting Women Workers' Rights in African Horticulture".
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Promoting Women Workers' Rights in African Horticulture: Report of the Planning Meeting, 2005.
£2.00Includes information about project partners, initial project planning and country overview, as well as a brief about horticulural supply chains, Ethical Trade and Fair trade.
Core Labour Standards and the Rights of Women Workers
The Power of Retailers in a Globalised Economy: Focus on UK Supermarkets. Women Working Worldwide and the Institue of Global Studies, Manchester Metropolitan, Seminar Report, 2004.
This seminar brought academics together with representatives of campaigning organisations to look at some recent research into the growing power of UK supermarkets. Speakers included Angela Hale from Women Working Worldwide. Lucy Michaels from Corporate Watch UK and Angus Cleary from Oxfam.
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International Subcontracting Chains and Workers' Rights in the Garment Industry
Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from a Workers' Perspective. Edited by Angela Hale and Jane Willis, 2005
£19.99This book presents empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up. It creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour.
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Garment Industry Subcontracting and Workers' Rights: A Report of WWW, Action Research in Asia and Europe, 2003
£5.00This book contains the full research reports from the WWW Project "The rights of workers in garment industry subcontracting chains". The research was done by women workers' organisations in nine countries - Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
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Implication of Garment Industry Subcontracting for UK Workers
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Garment Industry Supply Chains: A Resource for Worker Education and Solidairty, 2004
£2.00This education pack is for use in workers' education and organisation by tutors, facilitators and organisers. It is designed for use with garment workers, primarily but not only women. They may be factory-based workers, workers in small production units such as 'sweatshops' or homeworkers. It can also be used in a wider range of educational settings, for example with retail workers who sell garments, consumers who buy clothes, transport workers who deal with garments as cargo, students who are studying world economy, globalisation campaigners, as an example of a key global industry.
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