Gender, Development, and Trade

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Editor(s)
Keating, Maree
Publication date
2004-01-01
Subject
Gender
Trade
Keywords
Labour standards
Fair trade
Country
Botswana
China
Chile
Mozambique

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Series
Oxfam Focus on Gender
Document type
Book
Description
Women all over the world are increasingly employed - and exploited - at the far end of the global supply chain. Whether by picking fruit in Chile, processing cashews in Mozambique, sewing in China's Export Processing Zones, or providing biotech companies with indigenous knowledge in India, women's labour and skill are crucial elements in the scaling up of globalised production processes. It might be argued that women benefit in terms of status and income from this trend, but what are the hidden costs of new trade regimes, and do they outweigh the benefits? What do women stand to lose from trade agreements on agricultural products, intellectual property, and the movement of migrant labour?
Table of contents
Editorial; 'Good jobs' and hidden costs: women workers documenting the price of precarious employment; Global trade and home work: closing the divide; Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China; Being a female entrepreneur in Botswana: cultures, values, strategies for success; Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA; Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific?; TRIPS and biodiversity: a gender perspective; Women, trade, and migration; Gender, the Doha Development Agenda, and the post-Cancun trade negotiations; Corporate responsibility and women's employment: the case of cashew nuts; Resources
Pages
99
ISBN
978-0-85598-532-5
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121145
Additional Links
https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/gender-development-and-trade-121145
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