Global Supply Chains/Global Trade

Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Home-based Workers

Ethical Sourcing in the Global Food System: Challenges and Opportunities

This book brings together a range of academics and practitioners working on issues of ethical sourcing in the global food system. It critically...

Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains

Making Agricultural Value Chain Programmes Work for Workers: A Practical Guide for Development Donors and Practitioners

This guide, aimed at development donors and practitioners, seeks to improve the poverty, economic and gender impacts of agricultural value...

Building Capacity for Change: Developing Women’s Leadership and Business Skills

This is an account of the “Developing Leadership & Business Skills for Informal Women Workers in Fair Trade” project, which took place...

Globalization, Social Exclusion and Work: With Special Reference to Informal Employment and Gender

Policy Integration Department, Working Paper, No. 20

Globalization and Homebased Workers

Homework in the Context of Globalization

Paper prepared for the workshop, “Towards Securer Lives – Social Protection for Home Based Workers in South Asia,”...

Introductory Paper for the Africa Regional Workshop on Informal Workers/Producers in Food and Forest Global Commodity Chains

Scandal: Inside the global supply chains of 50 top companies

The global supply chains of 50 companies employ only six per cent of people in a direct employment relationship, yet rely on a hidden workforce...