| Short
Summary |
Gender influences labour practices in countless ways -
ideas about the jobs women can do, how they should do them, their wages,
their relationship to employers and the law. This publication aims to
provide a clear understanding of the key role that gender plays in shaping
the issues that labour rights activists in the garment industry are
tackling. When the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) came onto the scene in
Europe in the early 1990s, one of the key goals was to make people aware
of the fact that almost universally it was women who were making our
clothes - and under bad conditions. Clean Clothes Campaigners wanted the
public to know that exploited labour in these industries often had a
female face, and that if something was going to be done about their
situation, that fact couldn't be ignored. Still today, more than a decade
later, this challenge remains. This document is part of CCC efforts to
document examples of initiatives that have recognised the gendered nature
of the processes which underpin the current garment and sports shoe
industries. Chapters address issues such as gender and labour mobility in
the global garment industry, the impact of gender roles in garment
workers' health, and the shifting patterns of women's work. Profiles are
also given of women who are actively campaigning for the rights of women
workers, as well as examples of organisations working to promote better
lives for women workers, such as the Chinese Working Women Network and the
Committee for Asian Women. |
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