Theme: Global Supply Chains/Global Trade

Homeworkers Organizing for Economic Empowerment

From 2019-2022, the Home-based Workers Organizing for Economic Empowerment Project will help homeworkers who belong to membership-based worker...

The European Union’s Commodification of Bulgarian Homeworkers: Regulating Informal Labour in Global Production Networks

This paper interrogates the potential of contemporary international law instruments to realize decent work for homeworkers. It grounds the...

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

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...

Globalization and Homebased Workers

Contract Labour in Global Garment Supply Chains

Subtitle: Key Characteristics and Recent Trends 

Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global Picture

May 27, 2006

Beyond the Factory: Globalisation, Informalisation of Production and the New Locations of Labour

This essay foregrounds the phenomenon of informalised self-employment and explores its implications for potentially new forms of labour activism....

The Business Environment and the Informal Economy: Creating Conditions for Poverty Reduction

Draft Paper for Committee of Donor Agencies for Small Enterprise Development Conference on “Reforming the Business Environment” November...

Bringing Commodity Chain Analysis Back to its World Systems Roots: Rediscovering Women’s Work and Households

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