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Women’s employment in the textile manufacturing sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco
Endnotes
1. Sections of this chapter draw on Razavi (1999).
2. See Cagatay and Ozler (1995), Joekes and Weston (1994), Joekes (1995), and
Standing (1989).
3. While there is an extensive literature on the health hazards of new technology
in developed countries — documenting muscular-skeletal disorders, eyesight
injuries, stress and fatigue, skin complaints and reproductive hazards — very little
research has been undertaken to monitor the health implications of working with
new technology in developing countries (Pearson, 1991b).
4. Belghazi’s analysis of Moroccan employment and wage data, for example,
suggests that there is strong selectivity in participation by educational level. The
female urban labour force in Morocco is on average better educated than the male,
despite a significant gender gap in education even in urban areas (this volume).
5. See Elson (1996) for evidence of such reversals in some developed countries
(e.g. electronics plants in the Republic of Ireland and Scotland, and textile
manufacturing in the United Kingdom).
6. This phrase is borrowed from Pearson (1998).
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