Herausgeber*in: Laudes Foundation
Autor*in: Margot Brent, Kate Coles, Cliodhnagh Conlon, Juliette Lemaire, Laura Macias, Jacob Park
Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Bekleidungsindustrie, Circular Economy, Frauen, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Nachhaltigkeit, Unternehmensverantwortung, Transformation
Kurzbeschreibung:
In the garment and textile industry, circularity is rapidly gaining momentum given its environmental benefits, commercial promise, and rising consumer interest. Clothing resale, for example, is expected to grow 11 times faster than traditional retail by 2025.
The industry, which employs an estimated 60-70 million people in its value chain, must now grapple with the following questions: how will circular fashion impact job opportunities and job quality? And how can we ensure that the transition to a circular fashion system is just, fair, and inclusive?
The KWIL team investigated the job impacts of a shift to circularity, using foresight methodologies to account for macro forces reshaping the industry, such as automation and climate disruption. The research focused on the US, Europe, and India and included the following workstreams: Primary and Secondary Research, Economic Modelling and Scenario Planning.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 153 Seiten
Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende
Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download
Herausgeber_in: Center for Workers’ Rights
Autor_in: Mark Anner
Schlagwörter: mangelnde Arbeitssicherheit, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Bangladesch, CSR, Gewerkschaft, Gewerkschaftsfreiheit, Sicherheitsbedingungen, Sicherheitsstandards, Sozialstandards, Fabrikunglück, Rana Plaza, Unternehmensverantwortung, Verantwortung von Regierungen und des öffentlichen Sektors
Kurzbeschreibung:
Despite more than two decades of private voluntary approaches to address workers’ rights abuses in apparel supply chains, workers in the lower production tiers continue to face poor working conditions and chronic violations of their rights. Bangladesh has been emblematic of low wages, poor working conditions, union-avoidance, and a series of mass fatality disasters in garment factories, culminating in the collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013. With the five-year anniversary of the catastrophe approaching, the question arises as to whether the intervening years have seen meaningful gains for workers.
This report finds that gains have been severely limited in regard to wages, overtime hours, and work intensity in part due to the sourcing practices of the brands and retailers that sit at the top of global supply chains. A partial exception is in the area of associational rights, where, in the aftermath of Rana Plaza, pressure from the European Union, the United States, and international organizations resulted in minor pro-union labor reforms. These reforms, combined with the tenacity of workers and their organizing efforts, resulted in an increase in the number of recognized unions. However, in recent years, union growth has once again stagnated, indicating the need for continued international pressure and for an expansion of the capacity of garment sector unions. This report finds one area where gains for workers have been dramatic: building safety. This is largely the result of an unprecedented binding agreement, the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. The Accord, which imposes constraints and obligations on global firms that are absent from traditional voluntary CSR schemes, has overseen a massive program of safety renovations and upgrades.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Umfang: 18 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
Herausgeber_in: Anil Hira, Maureen Benson-Rea
Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, mangelnde Arbeitssicherheit, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Akkord, Sicherheitsbedingungen, Sicherheitsstandards, Sozialstandards, Bangladesch, Bekleidungsindustrie, CSR, Fabrikunglück, Rana Plaza, Unternehmensverantwortung, Verantwortung von Regierungen und des öffentlichen Sektors, Transparenz
Kurzbeschreibung:
This edited collection critically explores the efforts of the apparel industry to improve safety conditions and suggests governance reforms that will resolve lingering issues. The volume examines two consortia: the Alliance and the Accord, which set up cooperative auditing systems of supplying factories and penalties for non-compliance, and include funding to help factories comply and for workers if factories are idled during repairs, though the editors raise doubts about the long-lasting value of such efforts. In the wake of the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, leading researchers across labor relations and industry studies tackle and debate such issues, giving their perspective of how multinationals operating in developing countries should regulate labor standards in order to resolve and improve the substandard working conditions under which much of our clothing is made.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Umfang: 181 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
Bezug: e-Book (ISBN 978-1-137-60179-7): 89,99 €
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Herausgeber_in: India Committee of the Netherlands
Autor_in: Rosanne Hoefe, The Netherlands (Utrecht)
Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen, Arbeitszeiten, Befragung, Chemikalien, Diskriminierung, Gesundheitliche Schäden, Heimarbeit, Kinderarbeit, Leder, Lederproduktion, Lohn, ökologischer Fußabdruck, Prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen, Südindien, Tamil Nadu
Kurzbeschreibung:
The environmental impact of the leather industry is well known, with tanning being one of the most polluting industries in the world. Waste water from tanneries often contains high amounts of acids, salts and heavy metals. These toxic chemicals alsnegatively impact the health of workers, as has been documented by Human Rights Watch and many others. The short film ‘The Toxic Price of Leather’ by Sean Gallagher, for instance, strikingly illustrates the harmful effects on people and environment of extreme pollution caused by tanneries of the city of Kanpur, the biggest producer and exporter of leather goods in India. Less known are the many other sustainability and human rights issues related tthe leather and footwear production in India. This report explores labour conditions in the leather industry that are related tdeep-rooted social inequalities in Indian society. It highlights underlying structural issues that impact the labour conditions in the leather industry in India: caste and gender discrimination. ICN feels that tackling these structural social conditions is a crucial prerequisite for the success of any CSR initiative in the Indian leather industry.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Umfang: 52 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
Zielgruppe: Erwachsene
Medien: Hintergrundinformationen
Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download bei indianet.nl
Herausgeber_in: Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), NOWCommunities
Autor_in: Vincent Kiezebrink, NOWCommunities
Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen, Arbeitszeiten, Befragung, Chemikalien, EU, Gesundheitliche Schäden, Gewerkschaft, Leder, Lederproduktion, Lohn, Pakistan, Prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen, Unternehmen und Menschenrechte
Kurzbeschreibung:
In Pakistan, leather is produced under deplorable conditions. Labourers work for long hours for low wages. Many suffer damage ttheir health, working with chemicals and unsafe heavy machinery. The European Union (EU) is the single most important export destination for Pakistani leather, and a sizeable portion of these imports goes tthe Netherlands. Pakistan falls under the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP+), a trade scheme that aims tstimulate the protection of human rights by exempting specific developing countries from trade tariffs, on the condition that they ratify and implement core international conventions relating thuman and labour rights, the environment and good governance. While Pakistan’s leather industry has profited from this, interviews with workers reveal that they are still facing a wide range of labour rights violations.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Umfang: 26 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
Zielgruppe: Erwachsene
Medien: Hintergrundinformationen
Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download bei somo.nl
Herausgeber_in: Fair Action, Future In Our Hands
Autor_in: Maria Sjödin, Fair Action
Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, Arbeitssicherheit, Arbeitsverträge, Ausbeutung, Flüchtlinge, Lieferkette, Lohn, Textilproduktion, Türkei
Kurzbeschreibung:
Thousands of Syrians whhave fled their war-torn home country are working in Turkey’s apparel factories. Most of them dnot have work permits and are desperate tearn an income, which makes them highly vulnerable texploitation by employers. Many Syrians in the Turkish garment sector are getting paid below the minimum wage, even though they work long hours in unhealthy and dangerous conditions. Cases of employment of Syrian refugee children have alsbeen reported. Turkey is the third-largest non-EU garment-exporting country tSweden and Norway after China and Bangladesh, and an important sourcing market for the Nordic clothing brands H&M, KappAhl, Lindex, Gina Tricot and Varner (BikBok, Cubus, Carlings, Dressman, Urban et al.). This study investigates how these five brands are tackling the risk of abuse and discrimination of Syrian refugees in their supply chains in Turkey
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Umfang: 35 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
Zielgruppe: Erwachsene
Medien: Hintergrundinformationen
Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download bei labourbehindthelabel.
Herausgeber: SOMO Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen
Schlagwörter: Fabrikunglück, Fabrikunfälle, Arbeitsplatzsicherheit, prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen, Bangladesch, Pakistan, Kambodscha
Kurzbeschreibung:
This fact sheet is about fire and building safety of garment factories in low-wage countries– particularly in Asia. Over the past few years, hundreds of workers have died in fires and building collapses in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Cambodia. There is a long way to go before factory buildings are safe places for people to work. Governments and companies alike bear responsibility for the welfare of workers. This factsheet offers a number of suggestions for buying companies (buying houses, brands and retailers).
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Umfang: 4 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
Zielgruppe: Erwachsene
Medien: Hintergrundinformationen
Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download: http://somo.nl/publications-en/Publication_3979