While health hazards and poor working conditions inside electronics factories have been well documented, few studies extensively cover these issues in terms of gender relations. This research attempts to establish a causal relationship between exposure to certain chemicals and the implications for reproductive health and investigates the issues that affect women workers more directly.
*This manual was updated in May 2016 with the new regulations in China.
This training manual was produced by China Labor Support Network (CLSN) for their training workshop on the Reproductive Health of Women workers in the garments and electronics manufacturing industries, mainly because of the higher concentration of women employees in these industries.
All this time we might have worshiped the wrong God. It’s the global supply chain that put us here in Batam. It is the one who rules and determines our lives…it is the God
- The joke uttered by an Indonesian unionist after hearing an explanation of Batam FTZ electronics workers’ position within the global supply chain