Garment Workers

Homeworkers Organizing for Economic Empowerment

From 2019-2022, the Home-based Workers Organizing for Economic Empowerment Project will help homeworkers who belong to membership-based worker...

Chains of Production, Ladders of Protection: Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain

Made by Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers’ Rights

This 128-page publication published by the CCC International Secretariat includes feature articles on important themes relating to gender...

Stitched Up: Poverty wages for garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey

A report released in June 2014 by Clean Clothes Campaign shows that garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey are paid poverty wages and...

Informalising the Formal: Clothing Manufacturing in Durban, South Africa

Informal Economies and Urban Governance in Nigeria: Popular Empowerment or Political Exclusion?African Studies Review

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The Role of CBO in Social Protection – some experiences of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India

Paper prepared for the conference, Rethinking Economy: Social/Solidarity Economy in China and the World, Beijing, China, 27-28th April 2013. ...

We Need to Start Respecting Informal Workers

In the midst of rapid urbanization, the question of whether and how to formalize the informal economy is a growing concern.

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