ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the roles that Transnational Nongovernment Organizations can perform, alongside psychologists whose jobs focus on work, labor relations, poverty reduction, development, and wellbeing, to help to tackle precarious work in all of these multifaceted forms. The chapter is based on the experience of the Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, a United Nations-accredited non-government organization (NGO), and its work to promote social progress around the world. The overall objective of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the field of NGO diplomacy and its relevance for the study of work precariousness, such as working conditions in global supply chains (Jyoti & Arora, Chapter 6). Decent work deficits (DWDs), in the terminology of the International Labour Organization (ILO), are rampant in global supply chains and, in fact, one of the key attractors for foreign direct investment in developing countries. Work precariousness represents one of the manifestations of these DWDs in need of elimination. DWDs, according to the ILO, are “expressed in the absence of sufficient employment opportunities, inadequate social protection, the denial of rights at work and shortcomings in social dialogue.”
