International Journal of Health Services
Volume 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 409-429

The health and safety concerns of immigrant women workers in the Toronto sportswear industry (Review)

Gannagé C.M.
  • a Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ont. N9B 3P4, Canada

Abstract

Immigrant women's conditions of work have worsened with new government and managerial strategies to restructure the Canadian apparel industry. Changes in occupational health and safety legislation have both given and taken away tools that immigrant women workers could use to improve the quality of their working lives. The author outlines a methodology for eliciting the health and safety concerns of immigrant women workers.

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Index Keywords

immigrant Employee Grievances health care policy industry human clothing manufacturing quality of life womens status Humans workplace Canada female stress occupational safety Review health and safety women's health Ontario government Emigration and Immigration occupational health health hazard Accidents, Occupational Labor Unions public health immigrant population

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DOI: 10.2190/TFB6-7Q7B-E4DK-X6FL
ISSN: 00207314
Cited by: 14
Original Language: English