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Unheard Voices Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production
Unheard Voices
Farah Naz • Dieter Bögenhold
Unheard Voices Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production
Farah Naz Department of Sociology University of Sargodha Sargodha, Pakistan
Dieter Bögenhold Faculty of Management and Economics, Department of Sociology University of Klagenfurt Klagenfurt, Austria
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Preface
As the title of the book Unheard Voices: Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production itself suggests, there are agents in business and society who are weak and who have no or just very small voices to articulate their interests and to fight for their rights in global production system. In particular, authors are dealing with the question of how and under what conditions female home-based workers contribute to global supply chains. The Unheard Voices bring together the work and experience of authors having diverse background. The author, Farah Naz, works at a university in Pakistan, where many production places in that region employ female home-based workers who work on (final) commission of the world- known brands engaged in the industry of sports articles. The other author, Dieter Bögenhold, works in Austria, where all those seemingly European products and companies are located and shops and supermarkets are flooded with those nice brands which we all know and particularly wear, Adidas or Nike be
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