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One of the features of development encouraged in neoliberal approaches is outsourcing. Outsourcing is when companies from the western world moves some of their business to another country. The reasons these companies make the decision to move is often because of cheap labor costs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mullins |first1=Lauren Bock |last2=Saldivar |first2=Karina Moreno |title=Research associating gender and government privatization: Lessons from international literature |journal=Wagadu |date=22 December 2015 |volume=14 |pages=169–187 |id={{Gale|A490822009}} {{ProQuest|1786467988}} |ssrn=3194233 |url=http://sites.cortland.edu/wagadu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/02/Special-Issue-Volume-14-7.pdf }}</ref> Although outsourcing is about businesses it is directly related to gender because it has greatly affected women. The reason it is related to gender is that women are mainly the people that are being hired for these cheap labor jobs and why they are being hired.<ref name=Nyeck2015>{{cite journal |last1=Nyeck |first1=S. N. |last2=Benjamin |first2=Orly |title=Women, gender and government outsourcing in comparative perspectives |journal=Wagadu |date=22 December 2015 |volume=14 |pages=1–12 |id={{Gale|A490822003}} {{ProQuest|1786468088}} |url=http://sites.cortland.edu/wagadu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/02/Special-Issue-Volume-14-1-1.pdf }}</ref>
One example of a popular place for factories to relocate is to China. In China the main people who work in these factories are women, these women move from their home towns to cities far away for the factory jobs. The reasons these women move is to be able to make a wage to take care of not only themselves but their families as well. Oftentimes these women are expected to get these jobs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Houseman |first1=Susan |title=Outsourcing, offshoring and productivity measurement in United States manufacturing |journal=International Labour Review |date=March 2007 |volume=A146 |issue=1–2 |pages=61–80 |doi=10.1111/j.1564-913X.2007.
Another example of a country the garment industry outsources work to is Bangladesh, which has one of the lowest costs of labor compared to other third world countries (see the ILO data provided in figure 1).<ref>{{cite web |title=Wages and Working Hours in the Textiles, Clothing, Leather and Footwear Industries |url=https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_dialogue/@sector/documents/publication/wcms_300463.pdf |website=International Labour Organization |publisher=International Labour Office |access-date=November 15, 2019}}</ref> With low labor costs, there is also poor compliance with labor standards in the factories.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Berik |first1=G. |last2=Rodgers |first2=Y.V. |title=Options for Enforcing Labour Standards: Lessons From Bangladesh and Cambodia |journal=Journal of International Development |date=2008}}</ref> The factory workers in Bangladesh can experience several types of violations of their rights. These violations include: long working hours with no choice but to work overtime, deductions to wages, as well as dangerous and unsanitary working conditions.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Wages and Working Hours in the Textiles, CLothing, Leather, and Footwear Industries. |journal=International Labour Organization |date=2014 |pages=1–35}}</ref>
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