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The manufacture of apparel is an exemplar of global production. Since the 1970s, multinational brands have increasingly outsourced their manufacturing activities to lower cost production locations in developing countries. The low entry barriers and minimal investments needed in apparel led to booming employment in apparel factories in regions where formal employment was limited and where new opportunities were created especially for young, unskilled women and migrant workers who had access to waged labour for the first time. While this translated into higher labour force participation rates and new empowerment opportunities for these previously marginalised groups, it also appeared increasingly clear that workers were often exploited in order to keep production costs competitive in the global marketplace. This volume provides solutions-oriented approaches for promoting improved working conditions and labour rights in the apparel industry, by analysing how workers, governments and business can strive to collaborate in order to confront some of the key opportunities and challenges pertaining to labour in global apparel value chains.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Labour economics

• Full title: Towards Better Work
• Author: Arianna Rossi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 318
• EAN: 9781137377531
• ISBN: 1137377534
• ID: 02096202
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 550 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 138 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. December 2013

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