Globalization and Home-Based Workers

By M. Carr, M. Chen, Jane Tate. 2000

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Gender equity and globalization: Macroeconomic policy for developing countries (2006, background): “In Latin America and South Africa, NTAEs are often produced on large-scale enterprises, with women forming up to 80 per cent of the workforce (Carr et al., 2000).”
Shifting the Risk: New Employment Patterns, Informalization, and Women's Work (2001, background): “Along the same lines, Carr et al. (2000) have pointed out that technological change has facilitated “lean retailing” that demands the “quick and timely supply of goods associated with the just in time inventory system” (p.”
Bringing the social context back in: governance and wealth distribution in global commodity chains (2008, background): “While the continuous geographical mobility of sourcing orders sapped women’s efforts to organize and improve their working life, industrial upgrading dynamics also produced negative effects of their own by pushing women out of better-paying jobs, as documented in Malaysia and Mexico where the propor”
Global Care Chains (2004, unknown): “Thus, Carr et al. (2000) emphasize the failure of global commodity chain analysts to recognize informalization as integral to the globalization of production in –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Nicola Yeates/Global care chains 377 the manufacturing, agriculture and forestry sectors.”
Unfree labour and adverse incorporation in the global economy: comparative perspectives on Brazil and India (2013, background): “The majority of economically active women in ‘developing countries’ in general are thought to work in conditions of informality (Carr et al., 2000, p. 126) and migrant workers are strongly represented in the informal economy, whether their movements remain internal or cross international borders.”