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| Title |
Made by Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry,
and the Movement for Women’s Workers Rights |
| Author |
Ascoly, N., and Finney, C. (eds.) |
| Publication
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October 2005 |
| Publisher |
Clean Clothes Campaign |
| Donor |
Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs and
Mama Cash |
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Short Summary |
Gender influences labour practices in countless
ways - ideas about the jobs women can do, how they should do them,
their wages, their relationship to employers and the law. This publication
aims to provide a clear understanding of the key role that gender
plays in shaping the issues that labour rights activists in the garment
industry are tackling. When the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) came
onto the scene in Europe in the early 1990s, one of the key goals
was to make people aware of the fact that almost universally it was
women who were making our clothes - and under bad conditions. Clean
Clothes Campaigners wanted the public to know that exploited labour
in these industries often had a female face, and that if something
was going to be done about their situation, that fact couldn't be
ignored. Still today, more than a decade later, this challenge remains.
This document is part of CCC efforts to document examples of initiatives
that have recognised the gendered nature of the processes which underpin
the current garment and sports shoe industries. Chapters address issues
such as gender and labour mobility in the global garment industry,
the impact of gender roles in garment workers' health, and the shifting
patterns of women's work. Profiles are also given of women who are
actively campaigning for the rights of women workers, as well as examples
of organisations working to promote better lives for women workers,
such as the Chinese Working Women Network and the Committee for Asian
Women. |
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