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Towards better work : = understanding labour in apparel global value chains /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Towards better work :/ edited by Arianna Rossi, Amy Luinstra and John Pickles.
Reminder of title:	understanding labour in apparel global value chains /
other author:	Luinstra, Amy,
corporate name:	Workshop on the Preservation of Stability under Discretization
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 318 pages) :illustrations (black and white). :
Notes:	Co-published by the International Labour Office.
Subject:	Clothing workers - Congresses. - Developing countries -
Subject:	Developing countries. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137377548
ISBN:	1137377542 (electronic bk.)

Towards better work : = understanding labour in apparel global value chains /
Towards better work :understanding labour in apparel global value chains /edited by Arianna Rossi, Amy Luinstra and John Pickles. - 1 online resource (xx, 318 pages) :illustrations (black and white). - Advances in labour studies. - Advances in labour studies..

Co-published by the International Labour Office.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- PART I -- 1. Re-embedding the Market: Global Apparel Value Chains, Governance and Decent Work; Frederick Mayer and John Pickles -- 2. Economic and Social Upgrading of Developing Countries in the Global Apparel Sector: Insights from Using a Parsimonious Measurement Approach; Thomas Bernhardt -- 3. How 'Fair' Are Wage Practices along the Supply Chain? A Global Assessment; Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead -- 4. Regulating the 'Wage Effort Bargain' in Outsourced Apparel Production: Towards a Model; Doug Miller -- PART II -- 5. What Does 'Fast Fashion' Mean for Workers?Apparel Production in Morocco and Romania; Leonhard Plank, Arianna Rossi and Cornelia Staritz -- 6. Voting with Their Feet? Explaining High Turnover and Low Productivity in the Lao Garment Sector; Richard Record, Stephanie Kuttner and Kabmanivanh Phouxay -- 7. Vulnerable Workers and Labour Standards (Non-)Compliance in Global Production Networks: Home-Based Child Labour in Delhi's Garment Sector; Resmi Bhaskaran, Dev Nathan, Nicola Phillips and C. Upendranadh -- 8. Workers' Perceptions of Compliance with Labour Standards: Assessing Opportunities and Challenges for Better Work in Lesotho's Apparel Sector; Kelly Pike and Shane Godfrey -- 9. Workers' Agency and Power Relations in Cambodia's Garment Industry; Dennis Arnold -- 10.Factory Decisions to Become Noncompliant with Labor Standards: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia; Drusilla Brown, Rajeev Dehejia and Raymond Robertson -- 11.Towards Better Work in Central America: Nicaragua and the CAFTA Context; Jennifer Bair and Gary Gereffi -- Conclusions --.

The manufacture of apparel is an exemplar of global production. Since the 1970s, multinational brands have increasingly outsourced their manufacturing activities to lower cost production locations in developing countries. The low entry barriers and minimal investments needed in apparel led to booming employment in apparel factories in regions where formal employment was limited and where new opportunities were created especially for young, unskilled women and migrant workers who had access to waged labour for the first time. While this translated into higher labour force participation rates and new empowerment opportunities for these previously marginalised groups, it also appeared increasingly clear that workers were often exploited in order to keep production costs competitive in the global marketplace. This volume provides solutions-oriented approaches for promoting improved working conditions and labour rights in the apparel industry, by analysing how workers, governments and business can strive to collaborate in order to confront some of the key opportunities and challenges pertaining to labour in global apparel value chains.

ISBN: 1137377542 (electronic bk.)

Source: 709606Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

1007449
Clothing workers
--Developing countries--Congresses.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

555229
Developing countries.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

1007418
Conference proceedings.

LC Class. No.: HD8039.C6

Dewey Class. No.: 331.12587

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