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Free Trade’s Looming Threat to the World’s Garment Workers

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SWtradepaper.pdf (392.72 KB)
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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/99225
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Globalization and the Workplace
Author
Foo, Lora Jo
Bas, Nikki Fortunato
Abstract

In this working paper, the authors challenge the ideology of free trade. The paper focuses on the damaging effects of one particular free trade policy – the phase-out of textile and apparel quotas – and its impact on the global garment industry.

Date Issued
2003-10-03
Keywords
apparel
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economic
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employment
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garment
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global
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globalisation
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globalization
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international
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labor
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labour
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MFA
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organisation
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organization
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quota
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social
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sweatshop
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work
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workers
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workplace
Type
article

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