TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carr,Marilyn
ED  - Commonwealth Secretariat
TI  - Chains of fortune: linking women producers and workers with global markets 
SN  - 0850927986
AV  - HD6223 .C43 2004
U1  - 305.42091724 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - [London]
PB  - Commonwealth Secretariat
KW  - Women
KW  - Employment
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Women in development
KW  - Poor women
KW  - Sex discrimination in employment
KW  - Informal sector (Economics)
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Economic aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction; Marilyn Carr --; From tree-minders to global players : cocoa farmers in Ghana; Pauline Tiffin, Jacqui MacDonald, Haruna Maamah and Frema Osei-Opare --; Tradition, trade and technology : virgin coconut oil in Samoa; John Cretney and Adimaimalaga Tafuna'i --; Cashing in on cashew nuts : women producers and factory workers in Mozambique; Nazneen Kanji, Carin Vijfhuizen, Carla Braga and Luis Artur --; National labour legislation in an informal context : women workers in export horticulture in South Africa; Stephanie Barrientos, Andrienetta Kritzinger and Hester Rossouw --; Rags, riches and women workers : export-oriented garment manufacturing in Bangladesh; Naila Kabeer and Simeen Mahmud --; On the threshold of informalization : women call centre workers in India; Swasti Mitter, Grace Fernandez and Shaiby Varghese --; The trade policy context; Sheila Page --; Lessons learned; Marilyn Carr
N2  - "This edited volume brings together six case studies. Three link local producers with global markets: a cocoa cooperative of 45,000 producers in Ghana who are co-owners of a chocolate company in the UK; family-based cooperatives in Samoa which produce organic virgin coconut oil for export; and small enterprises in Mozambique which are helping to regenerate the cashew processing and export industry. Three focus on improving the working conditions of the hundreds of thousands of wage workers in global value chains: those in the fruit exporting industry in South Africa; those in the garment export industry in Bangladesh; and those in the newly created call centres in India." "Each case study is written by a team of international and national researchers and aims to present decision makers with concrete examples which can spread the gains of globalization to the working poor through shifting the balance of access, power and returns within global value chains."--BOOK JACKET
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