This paper theorises the position of women footwear homeworkers through the lens of global production networks. Using data collected in India during 2011 to 2014, it illustrates the asymmetry of power between network actors, and attests to the poverty, invisibility and lack of acknowledgement...

The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) propose that ‘non-state-based non-judicial grievance mechanisms' have an important role to play in remedying human rights violations linked to transnational business, in addition to state-based judicial and non-judicial...

This report examines the contribution of a non-judicial mechanism designed to encourage respect for freedom of association within Indonesia's export-oriented apparel and footwear sector. The Freedom of Association Protocol (the ‘Protocol') is a multi-party agreement created by Indonesian...

Ntroduction: homework and gender justice -- Understanding homework and homeworkers -- The invisibilisation of homework -- Extension of labour regulation to homeworkers -- Corporate social responsibility (CSR): improving homeworkers recognition? -- The logic of the supply chain: barriers and...