Garment Workers

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

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Social Protection for Informal Workers in the Garment Industry: Philippines and Thailand

‘Labour Chains’: Analysing the Role of Labour Contractors in Global Production NetworksBrooks World Poverty Institute Working Papers

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The Hidden Assembly Line: Gender Dynamics of subcontracted Work in a Global Economy

As described on amazon.com, “The Hidden Assembly Line studies the impact of subcontracted work in different national settings, linking...

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...

Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry

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...

International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain

Who Should Be Accountable for the Bangladesh Building Collapse?

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.