Global Supply Chains/Global Trade

The world’s most vulnerable garment workers aren’t in factories – and global brands need to step up to protect them

Workers at the bottom of the garment supply chain — subcontracted homeworkers, mostly women, who stitch from homes for some of the leading...

How Homeworkers Can Use the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment and Footwear Sector

This guide explains the OECD Guidelines for Multi-National Enterprises (MNEs), the MNEs’ responsibilities to workers in their supply chains;...

Homeworkers Organizing for Economic Empowerment

From 2019-2022, the Home-based Workers Organizing for Economic Empowerment Project will help homeworkers who belong to membership-based worker...

The European Union’s Commodification of Bulgarian Homeworkers: Regulating Informal Labour in Global Production Networks

This paper interrogates the potential of contemporary international law instruments to realize decent work for homeworkers. It grounds the...

Situating Home-based Work in the Webs of Macroscape

Global Labor Standards: Their Impact and implementation

Political Economy Research Institute Working Paper Series, No. 46

Informal Transport: A Global Perspective

Informal transport services—paratransit-type services provided without official sanction—can often be difficult to rationalize from a public...

Contract Labour in Global Garment Supply Chains

Subtitle: Key Characteristics and Recent Trends 

Globalization and Economic Reform as Seen From the Ground: SEWA’s Experience in India

Abstract:

Globalization, Economic Policy and Employment: Poverty and Gender Implications

Employment Strategy Paper,  No. 6