Labour Standards and Poverty Reduction: International Strategies
- Topics:
- Business Ethics
- Tags:
- Business Operations,
- Human Resources,
- International Strategy,
- Labor Relations,
- Labor Standards,
- Poverty,
- Quality,
- Security,
- Standards
- Source:
- North-South Institute
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Overview: Concepts of poverty have broadened in recent years beyond concerns about income and living standards to reflect a concern with vulnerability and risk, and with powerlessness and lack of voice. Increasingly, major institutions of global governance are moving toward comprehensive, broad-based and inclusive approaches to poverty alleviation that assert that workers have a right to labor standards. A focus on workers' rights to labor standards at work reflects this shift in ideas about poverty and vulnerability to a broader understanding of poverty as a lack of access to services, lack of personal security, low social status, and lack of control over labor and working conditions.
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Format: PDF | Size: 131KB | Date: Mar 2001 | Pages: 37
