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10 Geo. J. Gender & L. 125 (2009)
A Social Labor for Social Dialogue: A Proposal to Improve Working Conditions for Women in the Guatemalan Apparel Industry

handle is hein.journals/grggenl10 and id is 127 raw text is: NOTES A SOCIAL LABEL FOR SOCIAL DIALOGUE: A PROPOSAL TO IMPROVE WORKING CONDITIONS FOR WOMEN IN THE GUATEMALAN APPAREL INDUSTRY BY VALKYRIE HANSON* I. THE GUATEMALAN APPAREL INDUSTRY ........................ 128 II. MACHISMO STUNTS WOMEN'S CENTRAL HUMAN FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES ........................................... 130 A. MANIFESTATION OF MACHISMO-TRIPLE JORNADA ......... 131 B. MANIFESTATION OF MACHISMO-SEX-BASED DISCRIMINATION. 133 C. MANIFESTATION OF MACHISMO-MARGINALIZING WOMEN'S ROLES IN UNIONS ................................. .135 III. ATTEMPTS TO IMPROVE WORKPLACE CONDITIONS IN THE APPAREL INDUSTRY OVERLOOK THE GENDER CONTEXT ................. 137 A. GUATEMALAN LAW & TRANSNATIONAL LAW ............... 138 B. CROSS-BORDER LABOR SOLIDARITY STRATEGIES ........... 141 C. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY-VOLUNTARY INITIATIVES ......................................... 143 1. Social Labeling .................................. 143 2. Codes of Conduct ................................ 144 3. Monitoring ..................................... 145 IV. THE SOLUTION: THE TRADE FAIR LABEL ....................... 147 A. SOCIAL DIALOGUE UNITS (SDUs) DEVELOP WOMEN'S CENTRAL HUMAN FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES ............. 148 1. Social Dialogue Unit as Standard Setter ............. 150 2. Social Dialogue Unit as Monitor ..................... 151 3. Social Dialogue Unit v. Union .................... 152 4. Response to the Union Critique ................... 153 B. LABELING SOCIAL DIALOGUE PROMOTES THE BENEFITS OF THE SOCIAL DIALOGUE UNIT ............................... 155 1. Accountable via Individual Factory Monitoring ....... 156 2. Sustainable via Fair Trade Costing ................. 158 * J.D. Candidate, December 2009, Washington College of Law, American University; Fulbright Scholar, Guatemala, 2005-2006. I am grateful to the fearless sindicalistas of Guatemala for inducting me into their lucha and trusting me with their stories. I thank Daniela Kraiem, Associate Director of the Women and Law Program at the Washington College of Law, for her endless support and sage comments on every draft. I also thank the staff of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law for final edits. © 2009, Valkyrie Hanson.

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