Uruguay
Working conditions and quality of jobs in the forestry sector of Metsä-Botnia company.
Universidad de la república, facultad de ciencias sociales, departamento de sociología, Montevidéo, 2007.
Research report on the working conditions in the plantations producing eucalyptus for the pulp mill of Metsä-Botnia corporation in Fray Bentos, Uruguay. The report looks at the quality of jobs created by the huge foreign investment in whole production cain of the forestry sector.
Full report in Spanish (PDF-document)
Ecuador
Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on
Ecuador's Banana Plantations
Human Rights Watch, 2004.
Roughly one quarter of all bananas on tables in the USA and the EU are grown on plantations scattered along Ecuador's coast, where workers' international labor rights are flouted daily. Ecuador, the largest banana exporter in the world, does not adequately enforce its own labor laws. Nor do those laws fully meet international standards. According to this report by Human Rights Watch child labour is common in banana fields and packing plants.
Full report (Word-document)
Dominican Republic, Country report.
Kent Wilska, Service Centre for Development Cooperation KEPA, 2002.
According to the UN's Human Development Report, Dominican Republic has gradually changed for the better over the last 25 years as measured by a variety of indicators. This report provides a condensed view of recent developments in social policy of the Dominican Republic, starting with a look at the economy and the political situation, and then addressing the state of the nation's trade union movement.
Full report (Word-document)
Haiti. Trade union briefings, May 2003.
Socio-economic indicators in the red, political crisis, a massive increase in the number of people working in the informal economy, repression of human and union rights, child labour and a freeze on international aid are just some of the problems facing the Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas. A prime example of a country that has been on the losing end of economic globalisation, Haiti is also one of the worst spots on the world map of union rights’ violations.
Full report (Pdf)
Panorama social de América Latina 2000-2001, CEPAL 2001.
Statistics of social development in Latin America in Spanish.
Full text (Pdf)
Social and labour conduct of Nokia do Brasil Ltd, July 2002.
A company case study on the Nokia mobile phone plant in Manaus, Brazil by Instituto Observatorio Social.
Executive summary in English (pdf)
Full report in English (pdf)
