Towards Better Work Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Cha

Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-oriented approaches for promoting improved working conditions and labour rights in the apparel industry.

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Towards Better Work

10.1057/9781137377548 - Towards Better Work, Edited by Arianna Rossi, Amy Luinstra and John Pickles

Advances in Labour Studies is a wide-ranging series of research titles from the International Labour Office (ILO), offering in-depth analysis of labour issues from a global perspective. The series has an interdisciplinary flavour that reflects the unique nature of labour studies, where economics, law, social policy and labour relations combine. Bringing together work from researchers from around the world, the series contributes new and challenging research and ideas that aim both to stimulate debate and inform policy. Published in the series: THE LABOUR MARKETS OF EMERGING ECONOMIES: HAS GROWTH TRANSLATED INTO MORE AND BETTER JOBS? (by Sandrine Cazes and Sher Verick) BEYOND MACROECONOMIC STABILITY: STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT (edited by Iyanatul Islam and David Kucera) WAGE-LED GROWTH: AN EQUITABLE STRATEGY FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY (edited by Marc Lavoie and Engelbert Stockhammer) REGULATING FOR DECENT WORK: NEW DIRECTIONS IN LABOUR MARKET REGULATION (edited by Sangheon Lee and Deirdre McCann) CREATIVE LABOUR REGULATION: INDETERMINACY AND PROTECTION IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD (edited by Deirdre McCann, Sangheon Lee, Patrick Belser, Colin Fenwick, John Howe and Malte Luebker) SHAPING GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK AGREEMENTS (edited by Konstantinos Papadakis) TOWARDS BETTER WORK: UNDERSTANDING LABOUR IN APPAREL GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS (edited by Arianna Rossi, Amy Luinstra and John Pickles)

10.1057/9781137377548 - Towards Better Work, Edited by Arianna Rossi, Amy Luinstra and John Pickles

Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to University of Victoria - PalgraveConnect - 2014-12-16

Advances in Labour Studies

Towards Better Work

Edited by

Arianna Rossi Amy Luinstra and

John Pickles

10.1057/9781137377548 - Towards Better Work, Edited by Arianna Rossi, Amy Luinstra and John Pickles

Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to University of Victoria - PalgraveConnect - 2014-12-16

Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains

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