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Women's work and globalisation trends: the South African picture

Rising unemployment and a shift to flexible forms of labour are among the indications that women's position in the labour market is exacerbated by the effects of globalisation. LIESL ORR writes that unions need to continue to struggle against the privatisation of public services and job losses, as these have a particularly negative effect on women's work and lives and to find new ways of organising as traditional workplace rights become eroded and more women enter informal employment where they are vulnerable to new forms of exploitation