Mike Humphreys and Mark Learmonth wrote a few articles on this a while back- I remember studying them for my own MSc!
āThe leggings I make retail for more than my entire monthās salary,ā said one garment worker with young children who did not want to be named. āTo us, it is clear that there are huge profits being made on our backs." #Bangladesh#Protests#MinimumWagewww.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Garment workers in Bangladesh making clothes for UK brands say plans to increase their pay to Ā£76 a month is not enough to survive
We argue that we need to think about: 1/ Organised misogyny i.e. groups and organisations who purposefully set out to police women through misogyntic practice. 2/ Organisational misogyny i.e. the myriad, everyday ways in which individuals and groups enable misogyny within workplaces and markets.
It's not a happy read- we talk about violence in police forces, vitriolic attacks on social media, sexual assault in sport, and exploitation in garment supply chains. We could have talked about many, many more examples.
Misogyny and Organization Studies is out in Organization Studies today. Scott Taylor & I argue for the importance of naming misogyny for what it is: conceptually and materially, as something that happens & matters in organisations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My oped in The Guardian on climate accountability, co-written with Dr. Saleemul Huq OBE, who passed away on Saturday. We discuss the importance of Loss & Damage Fund at COP28 conference. #climatesky#geohttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/01/climate-destruction-rich-countries-cop28
As another big climate conference looms and global āloss and damageā takes hold, we must keep pressure on the biggest emitters, write Farhana Sultana and the late Saleemul Huq
If you have many, maybe consider donating some to scholars through this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... I got mine this way and it worked really well š
"A new Greenpeace report alleges that pulp and paper giant APP continues to clear forests and develop peatlands 10 years after adopting its landmark 2013 pledge to stop destroying natural forests for its plantations." @mongabay.bsky.socialnews.mongabay.com/2023/10/repo...
JAKARTA ā A decade after Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the worldās biggest paper producers, launched its landmark no-deforestation policy, the company continues to clear forests to feed its mill...
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