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This paper deals with home-based workers in the Brazilian garment and textile sector and illustra... more This paper deals with home-based workers in the Brazilian garment and textile sector and illustrates the challenges faced, and efforts undertaken, by workers and their advocates to improve worker protection. Brazil is an interesting and important case because it has one of the largest textile and clothing sectors in the world, unions with a long history of militancy and innovation, and a national government that, since 2003, has taken concerted policy steps to improve the situation of workers. The Brazilian needle trades are also notable in that in recent years about one-third of the sector’s workforce has been home-based (though this proportion declined during as the economy slowed, as we will describe below).
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Políticas de Formalización en América Latina: Avances y Desafíos, 2018
El artículo analiza los avances del proceso de formalización del trabajo que fue observado en Bra... more El artículo analiza los avances del proceso de formalización del trabajo que fue observado en Brasil entre 2003 y 2014, buscando identificar qué buenas prácticas contribuyeron para ese proceso.
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