Female employment in global production is significant in certain sectors of manufacture andagriculture. There has not only been a ‘feminization’of the labor force, but also a change in the gender dimension of global employment. Women’s...
Naila Kabeer is responding to three openDemocracy articles: Anita Roddick, “If shirts could speak and ‘we the people’ would listen” (April 2004) Farida Khan, “Getting real about globalisation in Bangladesh” (April 2004) National Labor...
Anita Roddick writes on openDemocracy with passionate anger about the conditions of women workers in the export garment sector based on testimonies of workers she met on her visit to Bangladesh. Her account is...
This paper begins by reviewing the different meanings given to the concept of “the social” within the development policy discourse over the past half century in order to delineate the domain of “social policy”...
South Asia has the largest number of child labourers in the world as well as the largest number of children out of school. With contributors from policy makers, academics and activists working in the...
In this book, Naila Kabeer brings together a set of arguments, findings and lesons from the development literature which help to explain why gender equality merits specific attention from policy-makers, practitioners, researchers and other...
Economic liberalization in Bangladesh has led to the emergence of a number of export-oriented industries, of which the manufacture of ready-made garments is the most prominent. The industry currently employs around 1.5 million workers,...
Violent anti-globalization protests in Seattle and Genoa focused attention on the growing resistance to free trade and the world’s market economy.Global Tensionstakes a close look at the challenges posed by the processes of globalization...
This paper argues that the primary value-added of a a social exclusion perspective for development policy lies not so much in the ‘naming’ of a new problem, as it appears to have done in...
Gender is rarely used as a differentiating lens by which to understand more fully the various experiences and ramifications of the social protection agenda. This paper takes as its starting point the overwhelming evidence...