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SUMMARY:GDI Lecture with Prof Stephanie Barrientos: Gender and Work: Capt
 uring the Gains in Global Value Chains
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DESCRIPTION:The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to
  present Prof Stephanie Barrientos: Gender and Work: Capturing the Gains
  in Global Value Chains\n\nThe Global Development Lecture Series brings 
 experts involved in global development to The University of Manchester. 
 It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion\, providing a space for le
 ading development thinkers to share their latest research and ideas.\n\n
 Today’s consumer society exists because of the multitudes of global valu
 e chains linking firms of all sizes across countries\, cultures\, politi
 cal and trade boundaries. Global value chains change how multi-national 
 corporations interact with their consumers and suppliers and have impact
 ed the working conditions of workers in factories\, farms\, and stores a
 cross the world.\n\nThe growth of contemporary retail has been driven by
  the commercialised production of many goods previously produced unpaid 
 by women within the home. Sourcing is now largely undertaken through glo
 bal value chains in low- or middle-income economies\, using a 'cheap' fe
 minised labour force to produce low-price goods. As women have been draw
 n into the labour force\, households are increasingly dependent on the p
 urchase of food and consumer goods\, blurring the boundaries between pai
 d and unpaid work.\n\nProf Barrientos’ talk focuses on the changing gend
 er patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the r
 ise of contemporary retail and global sourcing. This has affected the wo
 rking lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-\, middle- and lo
 w-income countries. Her talk examines how gendered patterns of work have
  changed. Some workers have gained but many endure poor working conditio
 ns\, and women are concentrated in more precarious work. The talk explor
 es the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage m
 ore gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.\n\nThe conditions and 
 mechanisms that lead to alternative outcomes are detailed in this talk. 
 It covers workers in the cocoa – chocolate value chains\, up-grading and
  down-grading in African horticulture\, the limits of social compliance 
 in Asian apparel\, and strategies to promote more gender-equitable outco
 mes for workers in some companies within flowers and apparel.\n\nBuildin
 g on years of detailed empirical research across different industries an
 d in several countries\, Barrientos examines how global values chains ar
 e reshaping the gender profile of work across many middle- and low-incom
 e countries. Gendered patterns of work in these global value chains can 
 both relegate women workers to poorly paid and unrecognised labour or le
 ad to economic empowerment and enhanced worker rights.\n\nLectures are f
 ollowed by an audience Q&A\n\nThis event is open to members of the publi
 c and information on the accessibility of the venue is detailed at this 
 link: https://www.accessable.co.uk/venues/roscoe_th-b\n\n\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Theatre B\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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