Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working In Global Supply Chains
1. Globalization has brought about several notable positive aspects, including the widespread of technology and information, as well as better living conditions for many of the Earth's population. However, in many cases, the positive aspects were swiftly overturned by negative ones. These may come in the form of hard labor conditions in several developing countries, the proliferation of products that do not meet the required quality much faster or in worsened environment conditions. In our case, we are concerned with the precarious employment conditions that many women face working for multinationals in third world countries.
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economy and liberalized trade created jobs for millions of women, who now occupy "60 to 90 per cent of jobs in the labor intensive stages of the clothing and fresh-produce global supply chains" (TRADING AWAY OUR RIGHTS. Page 16). However, the negative aspects include characteristics such as "insecure, exhausted or undermined" (TRADING AWAY OUR RIGHTS. Page 17).
Indeed, we should refer to each of these separate points in part. First of all, women are insecure of their job, because they are forced to work usually without a written contract, without a legal protection that they can use in their defense and with limited or no social protection at all. This means no medical insurance, pension plans or any other social benefits an employee has in a developed country.
Statistics provide several examples in this sense. In China's Special Economic Zones, for example (SEZ), one of the motors of Chinese economic growth, "80 % of the SEZ workers are women; most are between the ages ...
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The women that work in many of these third work countries, having come from rural areas in general, are living in unhealthy dorms, with no ventilation, electricity or running water (Ibid.). This comes as a corollary to the working conditions they have during the day.
As for the 'undermined' aspect, they are undermined in "their attempts to organize and demand for their rights to be met" (TRADING AWAY OUR RIGHTS, Page 17). These attempts include acts of intimidation, violence or firing (Ibid. Page 24) and women who could try to fight for their rights often choose not to, because of the risks they are subjecting themselves to.
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