Publications
December 2015
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Decent work in global supply chains
07 December 2015
December 2014
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Trade Union Manual on Export Processing Zones
01 December 2014
The conclusions of the workshop on organizing in export processing zones (EPZs) organized jointly by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) in February 2011 ended with 2 key challenges. Firstly, engaging in the policy debate with governments on EPZ policy. Secondly, organizing workers. The manual responds to these two challenges.
June 2012
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Export Processing Zones in China-A Survey Report and a Case Study
11 June 2012
Running in tandem with China’s gradual shift away from a planned towards a market economy, the development of EPZs has become the epitome of China’s reform and opening up, as well as a major catalyzer of this process.
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Trade Unions and Special Economic Zones in India
11 June 2012
The term SEZ covers a broad range of zones, such as export processing zones, industrial parks, free ports, enterprise zones, and others. Industrial free zones, industrial export zones, free trade zones (often presented as bonded platforms within countries heavily involved in transit trade), special economic zones (principally in China), bonded warehouses, technological and scientific parks, financial services zones, free ports, duty-free zones (destined for the retailing of duty-free consumer goods to tourists) are also among the variants. EPZs have been a feature of Indian policy since 1960.
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The State of Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations practice in Nigeria’s Export Processing Zones
11 June 2012
The expansion of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) across the world has been an attendant phenomenon to the globalising processes of neoliberalism in the past few decades. The EPZs are supposed to be vehicles for the attraction of much needed foreign direct investments for development by the world’s underdeveloped and less developed countries. Unfortunately, they have also become havens for some of the worst work practices and denial of workers’ rights to associate in defence of their rights and for the advancement of their interests, thus constituting one of the most inhumane “race to the bottom” characteristic of the neoliberal pathway to socio economic development of countries.