Labour standards and non-state initiatives in Colombia’s and Ecuador’s flower industries

The recent wave of global economic expansion was triggered to a large extent by the relocation of labourintensive industries to developing countries with low labour costs. While there is no doubt that this relocation has created employment, most of it is in low quality jobs. Non-state actors (privat...

• Main Author: Korovkin, Tanya (author)
• Other Authors: Sanmiguel-Valderrama, Olga (author)
• Format: article
• Language: spa
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: estándares de trabajo; sindicalización; industria florícola; mujeres trabajadoras; condiciones laborares; neoliberalismo; labour standards; unionization; flower industry; women-workers; labour conditions; neoliberalism
• Online Access: https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/235