
Trading Away Our Rights
Oxfam(Author)
Oxfam Professional (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 15. December 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-85598-523-3 (ISBN)
Description
Globalisation and trade have drawn millions of women in developing countries into paid work. Their labour is contributing to rising global prosperity and the profits of some of the world's most powerful companies. But women workers are systematically being denied their fair share of the benefits from their labour. Failure to address this injustice will perpetuate a model of globalisation that is failing poor people. 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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxfam Publishing
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 209 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85598-523-3 (9780855985233)
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