Trade liberalisation in the garment industry: Who is really benefiting?

Hale, Angela

doi:10.1080/09614520220104266

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“…They will do little for those in the informal end of the traded continuum, even less for those in the nontraded informal economy and may end up increasing the incentives to informalize. There is a danger that they will simply serve to set up a privileged enclave for the few while curtailing employment opportunities for the many (Bardhan, 2000;Hale, 2002;Kabeer, 2004).…”

Section: Labor Standardsmentioning

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Enhancing Female Employment in Global Production

Barrientos

Kabeer

2004

Global Social Policy

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Section: Labor Standardsmentioning

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Enhancing Female Employment in Global Production

Barrientos

Kabeer

2004

Global Social Policy

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“…Th e increased competition is putting severe pressure on producers to adapt and restructure their organizations in an industry that is already characterized by its labor intensiveness (Taplin, Winterton, and Winterton 2003). Within this rapidly changing and increasingly competitive environment, some producers are "likely to lose the whole of their export industry" (Hale 2002).…”

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Changing Stereotypes in India's Garment Sector through Dialogue

Maemura

2013

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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Th is article examines the work of facilitators within the garment sector of India to draw insights as to how third parties can help a group build trust and work toward the creation of opportunities for productive dialogue and collaboration in a troubled industry. By analyzing concrete examples from an authentic confl ict of perceptual and stereotype change among dialogue participants, this article contributes to the literature on how confl icting stakeholders within a group form, maintain, and transform perceptions and stereotypes of one another. In an attempt to reveal how facilitated dialogue can be used as a tool to produce such stereotype change, it provides a methodological framework for the systematic observation of perceptual change within dialogue processes that can easily be replicated in other dialogue projects.T his article analyzes the progression of confl ict within a multistakeholder dialogue between stakeholders in the garment sector of India. As a country of 1.2 billion people and growing, India is riddled with confl icts that are inherent in its massive scale of diversity. Th e largest democracy in the world has found itself in a struggle to manage the tensions between the encouragement and control of rapid economic growth and development. Th is research examines the work of facilitators within the garment sector of India in order to draw insights as to how third parties can

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“…The manufacture of garments in export‐processing zones, such as that found in Mauritius, and the attendant implications for Third World economies and conditions of work in garment factories have been well documented (Pearson 1998; Hale 2002), with an overwhelming focus upon forms of exploitation. Yet the over‐emphasis on sites of production in the ‘periphery’ for corporations and markets located in the ‘core’ and the somewhat systemic, linear conceptualization of global commodity chains (Hughes and Reimer 2004) have marginalized studies of consumption more broadly, but also downplayed the scope for appropriation and trade which emerge out of the leakages and opportunities at sites of production.…”

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Extending networks and mediating brands: stallholder strategies in a Mauritian market

Edensor¹,

Kothari

2006

Trans Inst British Geog

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We examine how increasingly volatile global flows and tenuous networks rearrange local spaces and are inhabited by local people by looking at the strategies adopted by stallholders on a Mauritian market who acquire and sell locally manufactured branded clothes. Continuously (re)negotiating their connections to power‐holders within networks of clothing production, we highlight how these traders achieve momentarily stable arrangements within a context where their entrepreneurial strategies are constrained. Further, in exploring how traders distinguish their wares, we investigate how multiple meanings and values circulate around these branded clothes as global objects.

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Trade liberalisation in the garment industry: Who is really benefiting?

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Enhancing Female Employment in Global Production

Enhancing Female Employment in Global Production

Changing Stereotypes in India's Garment Sector through Dialogue

Extending networks and mediating brands: stallholder strategies in a Mauritian market

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