This report is about the grievances of young women, predominantly from disadvantaged Dalit and low caste communities, who are recruited from remote and impoverished rural villages to work in textile mills and garment factories (herein the ‘garment sector') in a number of districts of Tamil...

The chapter compares situationally different types of homework in the garment and footwear sectors in Australia and India. The two categories of informal homework exist in a highly gender segmented workforce that experiences regulation distance. The conceptual tool of invisibilization is used to...

In this chapter, we extend the existing analysis of global production networks by applying a feminist analysis to the relationship between production and social reproduction about homework. We discuss two distinct CSR responses to homework in the production network. One response is rejection:...