The hidden assembly line : gender dynamics of subcontracted work in a global economy

By R. Balakrishnan. 2002

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Citations in the corpus

• Voluntary Governance Mechanisms in Global Supply Chains: Beyond CSR to a Stakeholder Utility Perspective (2016, background): “…chains, thousands of separate, undocumented incidents continue to happen every year, and hundreds of thousands of workers in developing countries are being exposed to unsafe working conditions, low wages and long working hours (Balakrishnan, 2002; Carr and Chen, 2002; Islam and Deegan, 2008).”
• Recasting Our Understanding of Gender and Work During Global Restructuring (2003, background): “When MNCs develop subcontracting networks with local factory owners, women produce the goods in small workshops or as home workers (Balakrishnan, 2002).”