Labor Exploitation: The Wake of Globalization and Economics Grow

Labor Exploitation
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Labor Exploitation
In the wake of globalization, economies have grown relative to the production processes that are now not restricted to one country or region. Companies can establish their premises in different parts of the world, relative to cheap labor, emerging markets, relaxed legal systems and raw materials among other factors. Relative to availability of employment, women in the developing world now form the bulk of employees in most of the production systems working low paying jobs such as, sewing garments, cutting flowers and packing fruits among other menial jobs. Ideally women are constantly denied their rightful share of their contribution to globalization.[Kate Raworth, Trading Away Our Rights, ebook, 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxfam International, 2004).]
Women are always hired in circumstances where their jobs are not secure and they are underpaid. One of the main practices that renders women jobs underpaying and insecure is that they are most of the time hired on short contracts.
"Women are more likely than men to be hired on short-term, ...