Trade Union Manual on Export Processing Zones

Cover -- Copyright page -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of boxes -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Facts and figures on EPZs -- EPZs: De nition, origins and forms over time -- How have EPZs evolved over time? -- Statistical overview of EPZs -- Overview of special incentives given in EPZs -- Why do governments create EPZs? -- Enterprises and EPZs -- EPZ economic sectors, investors and export markets -- Exercises -- Chapter 2: The Profile of workers in EPZs -- Women workers -- Young workers -- Impoverished workers -- Migrant workers -- Precarious workers -- Exercises -- Chapter 3: Working conditions in EPZs in light of the ILO decent work agenda -- The ILO Decent Work Agenda -- Employment issues in EPZs -- Quantity of employment -- Quality of employment -- Workers' rights in EPZs -- Freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to -- Review of key violations of ILO Conventions 87 and 98 in EPZs -- Legal restrictions on unionization -- Access to EPZs -- Legal restrictions on industrial action -- Interference in the affairs of workers' organizations -- Anti-union discrimination -- Collective bargaining -- The elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and -- The elimination of forced or compulsory labour -- The elimination of child labour -- Labour inspection -- Social protection in EPZs -- Termination of employment -- Social security -- Wages -- Working time -- Occupational health and safety -- Maternity protection -- HIV/AIDS at the workplace -- Workers with family responsibilities -- Sexual harassment and gender-based violence -- Social Dialogue in EPZs -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: Trade Union Responses: engagement in policy debates -- Do EPZs promote forward and backward linkages to -- Costs and bene ts of EPZs -- The impact of terminating the Multi Fibre Arrangement.