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Globalization and Home-Based Workers

Marilyn Carr · Martha Alter Chen · Jane Tate

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Abstract

Globalization presents threats to and opportunities for women working in the informal sector. The paper, which draws on the work of Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) Global Markets Program and of HomeNet, focuses on women home-based workers and analyzes, within the framework of global value-chains, the impact of globalization on labor relations and other market transactions. The chains reviewed are: manufactured goods (fashion garments); agricultural products (nontraditional exports); and nontimber forest products (shea butter). The paper shows how this form of analysis helps to identify the uneven distribution of power and returns within the chains – between rich and poor and between women and men. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of the work of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), HomeNet, and StreetNet in organizing home-based workers, both locally and internationally, as well as that of WIEGO in supporting them.

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1998Has Globalization Gone Too Far?2018The Organization of Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chains: How US Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks 1997Has Globalization Gone Too Far?1990The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries.1999Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Homebased Workers

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