Theme: Global Supply Chains/Global Trade

Fair Trade for Women Producers: Role of Collective Enterprises for Market Access

Women’s Collective Action (WCA) Webinar No. 5 Summary  

Trade Union Renewal and Labor Transnationalism in South Africa: The Case of SATAWU

Making Agricultural Value Chain Programmes Work for Workers: A Practical Guide for Development Donors and Practitioners

This guide, aimed at development donors and practitioners, seeks to improve the poverty, economic and gender impacts of agricultural value...

Neither Seen Nor Heard: South Asia’s Millions of Home-based Workers

Home-based workers in South Asia number in the tens of millions and are essential to many industries, yet remain invisible and disregarded...

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...

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...

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