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Labour makeup: a case study of 800,000 cosmetics resellers in Brazil

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2011
This article presents a case study a Brazilian company, Natura, which employs over 800,000 women as cosmetics resellers who are responsible for all aspects of product distribution.
Ludmila Costhek Abilio
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Consent to Labour Exploitation

Industrial Law Journal
Abstract This article argues there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the role of consent to labour exploitation. However, there is significant value in considering the theoretical underpinnings of different legal interventions addressing labour exploitation.
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The Role of Inter-Group Relationships in Institutional Analysis [PDF]

Taking value as the socio-economic analogue of biological or cultural fitness, in this paper I start a study of the interaction between individual-level and group-level explanatory mechanisms by looking for what kind of intra-group relationships obtains ...
Alberto Battistini
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Forced Labor and Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits [PDF]

, 2005
The paper is part of the ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL) research on the quantitative and economic dimensions of forced labor and human trafficking.
Belser, Patrick, Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, International Labour Office   +2 more
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Chaînes de valeur mondiales et conflits locaux : le cas des plantations agro-industrielles en Colombie

L'Espace Politique
This article explores the relationship between the integration of production spaces into global value chains and the dynamics of local conflict and violence.
Benjamin Lévy
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Migration and child labour: Exploring child migrant vulnerabilities and those of children left-behind [PDF]

, 2010
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
van de Glind, Hans
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Compilation of Reports from the Conference on When People are Treated as Commodities in the Global Market [PDF]

, 2006
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Anti-Slavery International
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A Detailed Analysis of the Productivity Performance of Mining in Canada [PDF]

In recent years, the productivity performance of mining in Canada has been very poor. Based on official real GDP and labour input estimates from Statistics Canada, labour productivity in mining fell by 2.21 per cent per year between the 2000 cyclical ...
Andrew Sharpe, Celeste Bradley
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Human Trafficking in Europe: An Economic Perspective [PDF]

, 2004
Based on a document originally prepared for the Eleventh Economic Forum of the Organization for Economic Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Prague between 20-23 May 2003.
InFocus Programme on Promoting the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Van Liemt, Gijsbert   +1 more
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The temporal single-system interpretation: underdetermination and inconsistency [PDF]

This paper critically evaluates a recent contribution by Kliman and Freeman (2009). It is argued that none of their arguments dispel previous criticisms of the temporal single system interpretation (TSSI).
Mohun, Simon, Veneziani, Roberto
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