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Hutchison, Jane. "Export opportunities: women workers organising in the Philippine garments industry." Thesis, Hutchison, Jane (2004) Export opportunities: women workers organising in the Philippine garments industry. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/84/.

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Transnational production arrangements have been widely argued to lessen the organising capacities of industrial workers, none more so than in the case of women workers in 'export' or 'world market' factories in developing countries. This thesis contests this assertion by showing that women workers' ability to form enterprise unions in the Philippine garments industry are enhanced by transnational production arrangements involving an overseas market. Specifically, the thesis demonstrates that, in order to meet the quality and delivery requirements of overseas buyers and contractors, local owners and/or production managers are forced to routinely keep more production in-house in order to exert more direct controls over the work processes of their women sewers. By thereby limiting the amount of local subcontracting which is done, women workers are agglomerated in larger numbers in the one place and, consequently, their capacities to engage in collective action - as indicated by the establishment of enterprise unions - is markedly increased. Empirically, the argument of the thesis draws on a 'multiple-case' study of sixty-five garment-making establishments located in and around Manila. The study involved interviews with owners, production managers and/or trade union officials about the local subcontracting practices of their establishments. The conclusions drawn about the links between export production and enhanced labour organising capacities at the enterprise level are corroborated by the 'commodity chain' literature on industrial deepening in the international garments industry and the status of the Philippine industry in this regard. But rather than think simply in terms of industrial deepening, this thesis is concerned with the impacts of exporting on class processes. Theoretically, the thesis thus draws on the Marxist view that capitalist development entails changes in the social form of labour, through the real subsumption of labour. But, whereas Marx linked the real subsumption of labour to greater capitalist controls over the labour process, in this thesis the real subsumption of labour is also tied to concomitant changes in the spatial form of the labour process. From this standpoint, the thesis engages with labour process theory after Braverman (accusing it of often failing to link capitalist control to class processes) and with theories of class (which often ignore the social and spatial form of the labour process). In tying organising capacities of women workers at the enterprise level to changes in social and spatial form of the labour process, it is nevertheless argued that these capacities are also shaped at the national level by the legal framework for legitimate organising and by 'political space' in which the law in fact operates. In this regard, it is argued that, whilst the state often passes laws to protect labour standards, it does not grant workers the means to ensure such standards are actually enforced. The thesis also challenges the view that the recruitment of women is a strategy which employers deliberately use in the Philippine garments industry to limit industrial conflict. Against this assertion of a rational economic basis to women's employment, the thesis argues that women are employed for sewing jobs as a result of the sex-typing of such jobs; but that this is also more an effect than a cause as the feminisation of sewing in the modern garments industry is embedded in class processes in the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States. Gender is a dimension of labour control, but women workers in the garments industry are not employed to limit enterprise unionism.
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Hutchison, Jane. "Export opportunities : women workers organising in the Philippine garments industry /." Hutchison, Jane (2004) Export opportunities: women workers organising in the Philippine garments industry. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2004. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/84/.

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Transnational production arrangements have been widely argued to lessen the organising capacities of industrial workers, none more so than in the case of women workers in 'export' or 'world market' factories in developing countries. This thesis contests this assertion by showing that women workers' ability to form enterprise unions in the Philippine garments industry are enhanced by transnational production arrangements involving an overseas market. Specifically, the thesis demonstrates that, in order to meet the quality and delivery requirements of overseas buyers and contractors, local owners and/or production managers are forced to routinely keep more production in-house in order to exert more direct controls over the work processes of their women sewers. By thereby limiting the amount of local subcontracting which is done, women workers are agglomerated in larger numbers in the one place and, consequently, their capacities to engage in collective action - as indicated by the establishment of enterprise unions - is markedly increased. Empirically, the argument of the thesis draws on a 'multiple-case' study of sixty-five garment-making establishments located in and around Manila. The study involved interviews with owners, production managers and/or trade union officials about the local subcontracting practices of their establishments. The conclusions drawn about the links between export production and enhanced labour organising capacities at the enterprise level are corroborated by the 'commodity chain' literature on industrial deepening in the international garments industry and the status of the Philippine industry in this regard. But rather than think simply in terms of industrial deepening, this thesis is concerned with the impacts of exporting on class processes. Theoretically, the thesis thus draws on the Marxist view that capitalist development entails changes in the social form of labour, through the real subsumption of labour. But, whereas Marx linked the real subsumption of labour to greater capitalist controls over the labour process, in this thesis the real subsumption of labour is also tied to concomitant changes in the spatial form of the labour process. From this standpoint, the thesis engages with labour process theory after Braverman (accusing it of often failing to link capitalist control to class processes) and with theories of class (which often ignore the social and spatial form of the labour process). In tying organising capacities of women workers at the enterprise level to changes in social and spatial form of the labour process, it is nevertheless argued that these capacities are also shaped at the national level by the legal framework for legitimate organising and by 'political space' in which the law in fact operates. In this regard, it is argued that, whilst the state often passes laws to protect labour standards, it does not grant workers the means to ensure such standards are actually enforced. The thesis also challenges the view that the recruitment of women is a strategy which employers deliberately use in the Philippine garments industry to limit industrial conflict. Against this assertion of a rational economic basis to women's employment, the thesis argues that women are employed for sewing jobs as a result of the sex-typing of such jobs; but that this is also more an effect than a cause as the feminisation of sewing in the modern garments industry is embedded in class processes in the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States. Gender is a dimension of labour control, but women workers in the garments industry are not employed to limit enterprise unionism.
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Schier, Michaela. "Münchner Modefrauen eine arbeitsgeographische Studie über biographische Erwerbsentscheidungen in der Bekleidungsbranche." München Mering Hampp, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2655882&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Edwards, Marlene. "The social organization of a secondhand clothing store : informal strategies and social interaction amongst volunteer workers." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phe2655.pdf.

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Sanger, Amanda. "REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present)." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78698.

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This study is a contribution to the programme of memorializing District Six through the site-specific stories that are shared in research, education, and the co-curated spaces of the District Six Museum. When buildings, streets, street names and place names are erased from a landscape; when cultural, economic, religious, and educational spaces are shut down; then people’s connections to place are disrupted, diverted, reimagined, often lost to future linked generations. These connections, however, continue to live on in people’s memories - individual and collective, sometimes lying dormant waiting to be triggered into wakefulness and visibility. In the case of District Six, these memories have lived on as nostalgia about a recent past with the trauma, often, edited out. Consequently, District Six has frequently been rendered as a stereotype - a friendly, unproblematic, tolerant, kanala place, where grand narrative re-enactments provide a sense of closure for some or evokes a sense of renewed anger about the stories not told and the unfulfilled restitution process. The stories of women factory workers are a case in point, where the closing down of factories and the subsequent loss of livelihoods are remembered in two ways. Firstly, through a lens of nostalgia premised on the idea that the past was a better place when we had jobs and could feed our families. Secondly, this recent past is also remembered with a sense of unresolved anger that people are less important than profit margins and real estate - a mentality that resulted in the export of cheap labour factories overseas and gentrification. This study explores the stories of two women clothing workers from District Six. I mapped out the important clothing factories contained in the stories of the two women I interviewed like, for example, the Ensign Factory that was in a section of District Six now rezoned as part of Woodstock. The site and its surroundings have taken on a new corporate brand but still lives with the spectral traces of the old District Six. I make these and other District Six fragments more visible through the stories of Ruth Rosa Phala-Jeftha and Farahnaaz Gilfelleon, using the District Six Museum’s oral history methodology – one steeped in a critical pedagogy where the storytellers have agency and are invited into a co-curated sense-making and interpretive process.
Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
Historical and Heritage Studies
MSocSci
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McKean, Brandon. "Extending the body : a niche design for seamstresses /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11212.

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Chan, U. Wai. "An autonomous and unautonomous body : the making of Macau's female working class, 1957-1989." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2590567.

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Zappia, Charles Anthony. "Unionism and the Italian American worker a history of the New York City "Italian Locals" in the international ladies' garment workers' union, 1900-1934 /." 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/33136801.html.

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Meiklejohn, Heather M. "The Manitoba Women's Institute and its role in helping rural Manitoba women meet their perceived clothing needs, 1930 to 1939." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3601.

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The objectives of this study were to identify the perceived level of minimum clothing needs of Manitoba Women's Institute members between 1930 and 1939, to identify and evaluate initiatives of Manitoba Women's Institute groups to help women meet their perceived minimum clothing needs during the economic depression of the 1930's, and to identify and compare selected independent variables between Manitoba Women's Institute groups in relation to the members' perceived minimum clothing needs. To conduct the study, a census survey involving 50 members of the Manitoba Women's Institute was undertaken. A personal interview technique was used for data collection. The population was limited to members of Manitoba Women's Institute groups that operated between 1930 and 1939. Findings indicate that approximately 50% of the population studied felt their wardrobe was adequate to meet their perceived minimum clothing needs. It was also found that a variety of courses and programs were offered by Manitoba Women's Institute groups to help women meet their perceived minimum clothing needs during the 1930's. A positive evaluation of the programs was given by the majority of respondents. The results of this study further suggest the selected independent variables of geographic location defined by severity of drought, the position of an individual within her family unit, and employment status, were not related to a woman's perception of her personal clothing needs of the time period. However, a significant relationship was found between a woman's perception of her personal clothing needs and her perception of other women's personal clothing needs. One implication of these findings suggests that during the 1930's, a woman's perception of minimum clothing need was influenced by her perception of her peers' minimum clothing needs.
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Absar, Syeda Sharmin. "Basic needs of women garment workers in Bangladesh : a narrative-based study." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146077.

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Skinner, Carolyn Margaret. "A living wage for women : the Clothing Trades case of 1919." Master's thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/130108.

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During the period from 1907 to 1921 Mr Justice Higgins, in his capacity as President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, delivered a number of judgements which were to have a significant influence on the process of wage fixation in Australia long after he resigned from the Presidency, The first, though it was not an arbitration case, was the so-called "Harvester" judgement in which he established the principle that the minimum or "living" wage for an unskilled male should be sufficient to enable him to support a family in "frugal comfort". At that time (1907) there was no assessment of what constituted an appropriate "living wage" for unskilled females as the issue did not arise. Subsequently, however, there were several opportunities in which it would have been possible to determine the female "living wage" but it was not until 1919 that this issue was finally resolved. The basis and circumstances of the "Harvester" judgement have received substantial academic attention. Of particular importance is the study, undertaken by P.G. McCarthy, which traced the development of the concept of a living wage in the Australian context and its ultimate expression as an "ideal" of seven shillings per day. McCarthy, however, was not able to determine with any certainty the basis of Higgins' decision in the Harvester case. This uncertainty as to Higgins' motivation is also applicable to his decision in the Clothing Trades case in 1919. This case has received little detailed analysis with most commentators relying on Higgins' printed judgement to explain the outcome. The sequence of cases leading up to the Clothing Trades case and the process by which Higgins reached his decision on the "living wage" for females are the subject of this thesis. The conclusion, however, is that the basis of Higgins' living wage award for females is no more certain than his award for males.
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Soldatenko, Maria Angelina. "The everyday lives of Latina garment workers in Los Angeles the convergence of gender, race, class, and immigration /." 1992. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/31384090.html.

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Bao, Xiaolan. "Holding up more than half the sky a history of women garment workers in New York's Chinatown, 1948-1991 /." 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/31140700.html.

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Van, Niekerk Corneulus Marinus. "Toesighouding onder Swart vroue-arbeiders in die nywerheid." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10742.

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The increasing deployment of clothing factories in the border industrial areas, has resulted in an increase in the demand for black female labour in this industry. This need, together with a sharp decline in the number of black male employees in the clothing industry, traditionally employed in all functional levels, forced employees to invest in black female labour on a large scale. It is practice to select first level supervisory staff from the higher operator levels, but a shortage of male workers in these positions created opportunities for black female operators to fulfil the need for supervisory staff. This however resulted in complications for both black women and employers, since factors emerged that could affect the black woman's achievement orientation. The objective of this research is to determine a job profile for the black woman in terms of her achievement orientation and also to investigate other variables that relate to her job profile and achievement orientation. Research conducted in this field on the European woman's achievement orientation, provided a framework for an explorative and qualitative research study on the achievement orientation of 15 non-supervisory and 15 supervisory black women. In order to gather sufficient information, interview guides were developed as an aid to conducting personal interviews with the sample group. A similar method was applied in investigating the attitude towards black female supervision, of 15 black male supervisors and 4 employers. From the case studies, three job profiles were distinguished namely a high achievement/high economical, a moderate achievement/moderate economical and a non-achievement/low economical orientated profile. For purposes of analysis the three profiles were reduced to two, namely an achievement/economical and a non-achievement/low economical orientated profile.
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Edwards, Marlene. "The social organisation of a secondhand clothing store : informal strategies and social interaction amongst volunteer workers / Marlene Edwards." 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18614.

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Bibliography: leaves [282]-290
vii, 290 leaves ; 20 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 1988
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Edwards, Marlene. "The social organisation of a secondhand clothing store : informal strategies and social interaction amongst volunteer workers / Marlene Edwards." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18614.

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Harrington, Christy E. "The Empire Has No Clothes! The Experience of Fiji's Garment Workers in Global Context." 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/21102.

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Krüger, Abraham Andries Johannes. "The textile industry as a vehicle for poverty reduction : a community empowerment model." 2015. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001490.

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D. Tech. Fine and Applied Arts
No documented projects exists that can serve as a guide for the establishment of community economic development projects among women in Southern Africa with the aim to economically empower them through the manufacturing of export quality garments in large volumes. The premise for this study was therefore to investigate opportunities that could potentially result in the economic empowerment of women by equipping them with textile-related skills, in a community economic development context, to make apparel that can be exported to first-world countries. The aim of this research was to devise a community empowerment model that would facilitate a participative process that will induce change - from poverty to economic empowerment - through the medium of garment product manufacture and distribution.
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Mojapelo, Pheladi Pally. "The implications of the separation between the productive and the reproductive spheres on the lives of women workers in the clothing industry : the Umbilo industrial area as a case study." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2490.

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