The global production economy is obviously great for workers. Thank you Walmart, Gap, and Target for providing these workers in India jobs by contracting production out to the lowest bidder.
Above: Survivors and Families of the Rana Plaza Collapse Protest in Bangladesh, November 2013 Maybe. In the aftermath of Rana Plaza, the European apparel companies (not the major U.S. ones.
What is life like in a Bangladeshi garment factory for women workers? It's not good. “What happened when you formed the union?” asked the interviewer from the Bangladesh Center for.
In the world of those who pay attention to monitoring sweatshops (a sadly small world), Nike wasn't exactly a success story, but it was a tale one could tell about.
The Diplomat has a good piece on the benefits and the problems with international labor monitoring systems. In short, Uzbekistan is a major cotton exporter, the world's 5th largest. It.
Yesterday I talked about the California bill for a meaningful wage theft law. On this particular issue, the problem is not Walmart or McDonald's. The problem are employers who rely.
Robert Ross has an excellent article on Bangladeshi labor reforms two years after Rana Plaza. In short, the international outrage has led to some relatively minor but not meaningless changes.
Labor in Bangladesh is not cheap enough for the apparel industry. Time to move to Myanmar, so long as the government--a group of military leaders not precisely known for taking.
