Garment Workers

Contract Labour in Global Garment Supply Chains

Subtitle: Key Characteristics and Recent Trends 

Informalising the Formal: Clothing Manufacturing in Durban, South Africa

The Impact of International Outsourcing on Unionization and Wages: Evidence from the Apparel Export Sector in Central America

This article interrogates the common industrial relations assumption that increased manufacturing jobs will create increased unionization...

Who Should Be Accountable for the Bangladesh Building Collapse?

Stealing from the Poor: Wage Theft in the Haitian Apparel Industry

From the Executive Summary of the report: Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its expanding garment industry pays wages...

The Investment Climate for Female Informal Businesses: A Case Study from Urban and Rural India

International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain

Fatal Fashion Analysis of recent factory fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh: A call to protect and respect garment workers’ lives

Bringing Commodity Chain Analysis Back to its World Systems Roots: Rediscovering Women’s Work and Households

Abstract

The Investment Climate for the Informal Economy: A Case of Durban, South Africa