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Under the prevailing global capitalist model, increased access to the formal economy for women is touted as a panacea to women´s empowerment and gender equality. Despite an unprecedented increase in women's participation in the global workforce and international labor standards, women are often assigned to precarious and exploitative low-wage work with little opportunity for social mobility. This thesis examines the effects of U.S.-Colombia Free Agreement and Labor Action Plan on women workers in Colombia's cut flower export-oriented industry. The impacts of free trade on women are contradictory, and despite hopes for the Labor Action Plan, women in the cut flower industry have seen little improvement in the working conditions and gender inequality. I explore the ways in which women actively resist exploitation and argue that women face powerful structural barriers to collective action under the imperialist and racist order of the capitalist patriarchy enshrined in Free Trade Agreements.

Abstract With the rapid change of industrial structure and economical environment and the influence of globalization, the industrial patterns of employment in Taiwan also face a tremendous transform. At present, the employment of temporary workers which develop rapidly in Taiwan causes the attention and operation of relative group and enterprise, and comparing with Japan, Korea, and Singapore, these countries have official laws to stipulate dispatched work agency, user enterprise, and dispatched worker. Under the circumstances of the lack of stipulation of laws and the intermingled enterprises, the quarrel cases of labor market take place in succession. The factors cause the controversial issues of the legitimatization of the Worker Dispatch Law to come stage again. The study focuses on the necessary of the legitimatization of the Worker Dispatch Law and concludes following findings. Chapter one is introduction concluding the motivation, purpose, and procedure of the study. Chapter two is a retrospection of the development of dispatched workers, concluding the basic ideas and characters of dispatched workers, and the legitimatization of the Worker Dispatch Law and relative satisfaction references to certify the status of the study. Chapter three is an investigation of legitimatization of the Worker Dispatch Law in other countries. And chapter four is a development and tendency of dispatched workers in Taiwan. Chapter five is a research of the relationship of dispatched work agency, user enterprise, and dispatched worker, which analyzing the necessary of the legitimatization of the Worker Dispatch Law by case studies. Chapter six is a conclusion focusing on inducing the conclusions from previous chapters, positing the conclusions and suggestions.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-137). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ38537.pdf.

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 298-311) / Microfiche. / viii, 311 leaves, bound 29 cm

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2006. / Thesis submitted to the Division of Arts. Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-428).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Political Science. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 489-528). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR29487

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-129). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, 1965. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [351]-369).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 2008. / "Committee: Peter Berg, Dale Belman, Mark Roehling, Steven Haider, and Stacy Dickert-Conlin." Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Aug. 19, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-192). Also issued in print.