Threads of labour [[electronic resource] ] : garment industry supply chains from the workers' perspective / / edited by Angela Hale and Jane Wills

• Record Nr.: UNISA996205341503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, Mass. ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell, 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-28633-4; 9786610286331; 0-470-76143-1; 1-4051-5307-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Collana: Antipode book series
• Altri autori (Persone): HaleAngela; WillsJane
• Disciplina: 331.0487; 331.7/687
• Soggetti: Women clothing workers - Economic conditions; Clothing trade - Subcontracting; Clothing workers - Labor unions; Employee rights
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Women Working Worldwide."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Threads of Labour; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry; 2 The Changing Face of the Global Garment Industry; 3 Organising and Networking in Support of Garment Workers: Why We Researched Subcontracting Chains; 4 Action Research: Tracing the Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry; 5 Unravelling the Web: Supply Chains and Workers' Lives in the Garment Industry; 6 Coming Undone: The Implications of Garment Industry Subcontracting for UK Workers; 7 The Impact of Full-Package Production on Mexico's Blue Jean Capital8 Defending Workers' Rights in Subcontracted Workplaces; 9 The Phase-Out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement from the Perspective of Workers; 10 Conclusion; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up.Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico.Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour.Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in more humane dir

Plant Biotechnology for Health : From Secondary Metabolites to Molecular Farming / / by Maria Alejandra Alvarez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910298340703321
• Autore: Alvarez Maria Alejandra
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
• ISBN: 3-319-05771-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 p.)
• Disciplina: 54; 580; 615.19; 660.6
• Soggetti: Biotechnology; Botany; Pharmaceutical chemistry; Plant Science; Pharmaceutics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Plants for Health: from secondary metabolites to molecular farming -- Plants for Health -- Plant Secondary Metabolism -- In Vitro Plant Cultures as Biofactories -- Solasodine production in Solanum eleagnifolium in vitro cultures -- Molecular Farming in Plants -- The ; Antibody 14D9 as an Experimental Model for Molecular Farming -- Expression of the Potentially Immunogenic Truncated Glycoprotein E2 (from Viral Bovine Diarrhoea Virus) in Nicotiana Tabacum -- Mathematical Modelling in Recombinant Plant Systems: The Challenge to Produce Heterologous Proteins under GLP/GMP.
• Sommario/riassunto: In vitro plant cell cultures have provided a tool for studying plant metabolism and physiology and to explore productive processes of secondary metabolites. More recently, genetic engineering has allowed the use of in vitro cultures to modulate plant biosynthetic pathways and to express heterologous proteins of biomedical relevance. The aim of this book is to offer background information to students and researchers in the fields of Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Farming about the potential of in vitro cultures to perform phytofermentations and molecular farming. Also, the application of in vitro cultures for the production of specific secondary metabolites and recombinant proteins is reviewed.