Global Supply Chains/Global Trade

Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Home-based Workers

Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Fair Trade: Case Studies from India and Nepal

This article gives a summary of experiences from India and Nepal from an action research project on producer organizations of working poor...

Human Development and Clothing Manufacturing in Cambodia: Challenges and Strategies for the Garment Industry

Informal Workers in Global Horticulture and Commodities Value Chains: A Review of Literature

This paper analyzes existing value chain literature in the existing horticulture and commodities sectors with a particular focus on what...

Globalization and Homebased Workers

The Management of Risk: Informal Trade in Indonesia

Issues in Developing a Common Framework on Informal Employment

Small World, Big Goals: A Home-Based Garment Worker in Delhi

From her Delhi home, Farida-ben embroiders garments for foreign retailers. Denied an education and other options, she has done this work...

Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global Picture

May 27, 2006

Global Trade and Homework: Closing the DivideGender and Development

Home work has re-emerged as a new form of subcontracted production. Promoted through global capital, it relies on sweatshop labour conditions...