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.
In These Times published an excerpt of Out of Sight. If you've been wondering what it's about it, you can read a chunk of it at the link. A bit.
Patagonia is receiving some kudos for taking steps to clean up its supply chain. After investigating conditions in its supply chain, mostly at factories in Taiwan, it discovered all the.
The use of sweatshop labor in the apparel industry is not just a U.S. thing and it doesn't just take place in Bangladesh. Rather, it's a worldwide phenomenon that needs.
Another horrible disaster in the global apparel industry. This time it was in the Philippines where at least 72 are dead after a fire burned a slipper factory. There might.
