Garment Workers

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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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...

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

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.

International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain

Who Should Be Accountable for the Bangladesh Building Collapse?

One Step Forward or More Window Dressing? A Legal Analysis of Recent CSR Initiatives in the Garment Industry in BangladeshInternational Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Abstract: The Bangladesh ready-made garment industry has recently been the scene of a number of major accidents, with the collapse of the...

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

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