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From Social Movements to Social Clauses: Assessing strategies for improving women's health and labour conditions in the garment sector

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Julie Delahanty and Mashuda Khatun Shefali look at how economic globalization is profoundly affecting the international division of labour. They detail how garment industry changes have had a profound impact on workers – most of them women – and their health.

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  1. The North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada

    Julie Delahanty

  2. Islamabad, Pakistan

    Mashuda Khatum Shefali

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Delahanty, J., Khatum Shefali, M. From Social Movements to Social Clauses: Assessing strategies for improving women's health and labour conditions in the garment sector. Development 42, 98–102 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110094

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