Shoes, Glues and Homework

Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry

Pia Markkanen, Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant, John Wooding (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

115 Seiten

2009
Baywood Publishing Company Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89503-328-4 (ISBN)

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This book describes working conditions in informal sector shoemaking in Indonesia and the Philippines, their national and international policy implications. It provides information on glues, an organic solvent, found in footwear chemicals and women garment homeworkers in Bulacan.

Pia Markkanen

Foreword

Preface
Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant, and John Wooding

Introduction

CHAPTER 1
The Structure of the Global Footwear Industry

CHAPTER 2
Shoemaking and its Hazards

CHAPTER 3
Informal Sector, Informal Economy

CHAPTER 4
Does Gender Matter?

CHAPTER 5
Shoe Chemicals and Right-to-Know

CHAPTER 6
The Way Forward

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.11.2009
Reihe/Serie	Work, Health and Environment Series
Verlagsort	Amityville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-89503-328-3 / 0895033283
ISBN-13	978-0-89503-328-4 / 9780895033284
Zustand	Neuware