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Gender Based Violence in the Walmart Garment Supply Chain
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This report—including interviews with more than 250 workers employed in 60 factories that supply to Walmart—documents the experiences of women garment workers at the base of Walmart garment supply chains. Concentrated in short term, low skill, and low-wage positions, they are at daily risk of gender based violence and harassment at work. This new research documents sexual harassment and violence including physical violence, verbal abuse, coercion, threats and retaliation, and routine deprivations of liberty including forced overtime. The research also makes clear these are not isolated incidents and that gender based violence in the Walmart garment supply chain is a direct result of how Walmart conducts business. Based upon analysis of the spectrum of gender based violence and associated risk factors in the garment industry, these reports include concrete recommendations for an ILO Convention to eliminate gender based violence and harassment in the world of work.
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Homeworkers, that is, those who choose or are induced to perform paid work from home rather than their employers’ premises, are a particularly vulnerable class of workers who struggle for recognition of their industrial rights. Migrant women, who may not know how to access their rights or collectively mobilise, are overrepresented in the homeworker sector (Wardlaw and Curtin, 2005). As they conduct their work in their homes outside of the public gaze, homeworkers may find their work to be invisibilised or devalorised. This article compares two highly gendered and racially segmented labour markets in Australia: home-based family care workers and garment homeworkers. We have chosen to compare the situation of these homeworkers because of the very different regulatory trajectories for these sectors. In the garment industry, extensive advocacy has led to workers in this sector gaining legal recognition. On the other hand, the family day care workers have not collectively mobilised and consequently remain marginalised. Nevertheless, the recent walkout of childcare workers in September 2017 orchestrated by the United Voice union may herald the beginning of a new era of representation for these workers (Stein, 2017).
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