The social categories of labor in the Philippines

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Child dockworkers used to break a union in Mindanao
By David Bacon, 15 January 1998. In late 1995, a year before the contract was due to expire, the capataz, or dock foreman, organized a company union to challenged the right of the PIILU to represent the employees. When the company union got started, the new wave of child workers began doing the work of adults, unloading sacks of concrete, each weighing over 100 pounds.
Youth week—the future of the trade union movement: Philippines
By Natacha David, ICFTU OnLine … , 5 November 1998. World day of action for young workers. Employers make workers on a regular contract redundant and replace them, shortly afterwards, with workers on temporary contracts. Obviously this costs them a lot less because they only have to pay their wages, with no social security contributions. In the Philippines, temporary workers don't have the right to social security, nor do they have the right to join a union.
Less Work for Home-Based Workers
By Marites Sison, IPS, 22 March 2000. Home-based women workers made paper mache decorations and could hardly rest because of the great demand overseas for their handiwork. But now the papier mache industry is dying. Many of those women HBWs happen to be the family breadwinners.
Philippines has almost a million prostitutes
The Straits Times, 21 July 2000. The Philippines tops the list of countries whose women are lured into the trade by supplying almost a million prostitutes. Gabriela on Wednesday launched the International Conference against Sex Trafficking of Filipino Women and Children during an annual meeting of women's organisations.
12 Mindanaoan workers rescued from fake cigarette factory
By Thomas F. Picana, The Manila Times, 26 November 2000. The are being held as virtual slaves in a factory of fake-branded cigarettes. The factory was allegedly owned by a Taiwanese businessman and other two Chinese nationals who all eluded arrest.
Negros ‘sacadas’: Slaves through the years
By Jaime Espina, ABS-CBN, Today, 7 April 2004. The 32 families living in the Hacienda Tibay Lopez sugarcane plantation are all but a few pakyaw or contractual workers who do not receive regular wages but are paid for the amount of work they accomplished per hectare for weeding, per ton for harvesting and loading cane, per lacsa or 10,000 canepoints for planting.