Herausgeber_in: Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC)

Autor_innen: Sina Marx

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Asien, COVID-19, Corona, GBVH, Gender, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Lieferketten, Löhne, Menschenrechte, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung:

This report shows the connections between economic exploitation and gender-based violence against women in the textile industry. It also gives recommendation for action of different stakeholders.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 12 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Ansehen

Herausgeber_in: MVO Netherland

Autor_in: Giovanni Beatrice, Jean-Baptiste Damestoy, Frans Tilstra, Marjolein van Gendt

Schlagwörter: Afrika, Äthiopien, Arbeitsbedingungen, Bekleidungsindustrie, Baumwolle, Export, Globalisierung, Gender, GBVH, Lieferkette, Lohn, Nachhaltigkeit, Portraits, Soziale Verantwortung, Tipps für in der Bekleidungsbranche Tätige, Umweltschäden

Kurzbeschreibung:

Ethiopia is a promising country for the future of apparel manufacture, looking at its youthful population of 110 million, its rapid development with an anticipated continued annual GDP growth rate of 8%, low labour costs and preferential conditions in trade with the U.S. and the EU. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the textile and garment sector is growing and so is its export.
However, the country also offers challenges, both commercial and in terms of environmental sustainability and ethical business behaviour. Cotton, fabrics and accessories need to be imported. Import/export regulations are complicated and time consuming. Workers are relatively untrained and unskilled and efficiency is very low. In addition, there is worry among stakeholders and (potential) buyers about issues such as living wage and the freedom of association in Ethiopia.
The overall objective of the report is to describe the comparative benefits and risks (SCP and commercial) of sourcing textile garments from Ethiopia. The aim is to inform potential buyers of the current status of the industry; it does not aim for scientific precision.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2019

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 34 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Beschaffer_innen,Student_innen, Erwachsene

Bezug: PDF zum Download

Herausgeber_in: Homeworkers Worldwide & Cividep India

Autor_innen: Homeworkers Worldwide & Cividep India

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Gender, Gesundheitsschäden, Heimarbeit, Lieferkette, Löhne, Materialien, Menschenrechte, Nachhaltigkeit, Transparenz, Tipps für in der Bekleidungsindustrie Beschäftigte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Die mangelnde Sichtbarkeit von Heimarbeiter*innen erschwert es internationalen Marken und Einzelhändler*innen, die Probleme von Heimarbeiter*innen innerhalb ihrer eigenen Lieferketten anzugehen. Heimarbeiter*innen, hauptsächlich Frauen, sind häufig in informellen Bereichen der Bekleidungs- und Schuhlieferketten außerhalb der Fabriken beschäftigt. Aufgrund ihrer prekären Beschäftigung, die nicht im Blickfeld von Prüfer*innen und Inspektor*innen liegt, und des schwachen oder fehlenden Rechtsschutzes, sind sie dem Risiko der Ausbeutung ausgesetzt und haben mit die schlechtesten Löhne und Arbeitsbedingungen aller Arbeitnehmer*innen in der Wertschöpfungskette. Dieses Toolkit soll Unternehmen helfen die Transparenz über Heimarbeit innerhalb ihrer Lieferketten zu verbessern.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 24 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Lehrende, Erwachsene

Bezug: online als PDF

Herausgeber_in: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Center for Development and Employment Research

Redaktion: Rizwanul Islam, Rushidan I Rahman

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsrechte, Bangladesh, Bekleidungsindustrie, COVID-19, Corona, Gender, Gesundheit, Frauen in der Bekleidungsindustrie, Krise, Menschenrechte, Politik, Standards, Studie, textile Kette, Untersuchung

Kurzbeschreibung:

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned to an global economic crisis which affected the employment and labour market situations worldwide – as well in Bangladesh. The lockdown measures from March to May 2020 hit the economy hard and economic recovery is taking time. There are already visible signs of the impact of the economic crisis on employment and livelihoods of people.

The study analyses the impact of the health and economic crisis on the employment and labour market situations of Bangladesh and provides recommendations on possible policy responses for the short and medium turn future. It deals with the employment as a whole but also focus on how the informal sector and women have been affected.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 48 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download als PDF-Datei

Herausgeber_in: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Autor_in: Alysha Khambay, Thulsi Narayanasamy

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Asien, Afrika, COVID-19, Corona, Einkaufspraktiken, Existenzsichernde Löhne, Gender, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Lieferketten, Löhne, Living Wage, Menschenrechte, Produktion, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung:

This report demonstrates how the business model of fashion brands and the structure of global garment supply chains create and sustain poverty wages for garment workers. We explore how persistently low wages continue to be the foundation of the industry despite policy commitments to pay a living wage. Elements of supply chains that impact wage levels are: the indirect employment relationship with supply chain workers; the global race to the bottom on labour costs which suppress national minimum wage increases; and the unequal power relationship between brands and suppliers which allow brands to dictate the terms of production, often at the expense of suppliers.

Between August 2020 and February 2021, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) approached 16 brands for a response to allegations of unpaid wages and benefits (wage theft). All brands included in the report have policy commitments to ensure workers in their supply chain are paid. Ten go further and explicitly refer to aspirations to pay a living wage, with five of these brands members of the key voluntary initiative on living wage payment, Action Collaboration Transformation (ACT). Yet the existence of voluntary initiatives on living wages has failed to result in the payment of living wages to garment workers or even an increase in the wage level.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 33 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download als PDF-Datei

Herausgeber_innen: Global Labor Justice

Autor_innen: Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Asien, Bekleidungsindustrie, Frauen in der Bekleidungsindustrie, Gender, gender-based-violence, GBVH, Gewerkschaften, Globalisierung, globale Wertschöpfungskette, ILO, Lieferkette, Leitprinzipien, Menschenrechte

Kurzbeschreibung:
Low wage women workers are least likely to have access to limited social safety nets, and most earn wages too low to save. As economies contract and millions of workers are fired, older women are among the first to lose their jobs. The unprecedented impacts of COVID-19 are deep and far-reaching, affecting the health and livelihoods of more than 150 million workers in global supply chains and 40 million workers in fast fashion supply chains—a workforce largely made up of women. Government and corporate responses to COVID-19 have exposed vast structural inequalities created by supply chain production models.

This report reviews the gendered impact of COVID-19—and the need for a transformational approach to prevent and end GBVH using guidance from C190*—in the context of Asian fast fashion supply chains which produce primarily consumer apparel and footwear. The report highlights the persistent risk factors for violence that both predate and are exacerbated by COVID-19. It provides detailed guidance for fast fashion lead firms on steps they can take to uphold C190 obligations to address violence on garment supply chains in context of the global public health crisis and the economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While this report focuses on fast fashion supply chains, the guidance for corporate accountability to achieve violence free workplaces provides an important roadmap across global supply chain sectors.

* C190 is the first international labor standard to lay out a gender-inclusive approach to addressing violence in the world of work and measures to end GBVH, including addressing risks associated with discrimination, unequal relationships of power and occupational health and safety

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 47 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download als PDF-Datei

Herausgeber_in: Workers Rights Consortium

Autor_innen: Penelope Kyritsis, Genevieve LeBaron and Scott Nova

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Armut, Asien, COVID-19, Corona, Einkaufspraktiken, Gender, Lohn, Lebensstandard, Lebensverhältnisse, Unternehmensverantwortung

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene, Student_innen

Kurzbeschreibung:

This research report presents the findings of a survey of 396 garment workers across 158 factories in nine countries, undertaken between August and September 2020. It presents new data about how garment workers’ food security—and linked dynamics of employment status and income—has deteriorated amidst the pandemic. Workers from our sample reported making clothes for over 100 apparel brands and retailers; the brands and retailers that were identified by survey respondents with the most frequency were: adidas, Gap, H&M, Nike, The Children’s Place, PVH, Gildan, Walmart, JCPenney, and Express.

Our data reveal an alarming pattern: garment workers’ declining incomes are leading to widespread hunger among workers and their families, as they are increasingly unable to obtain adequate food and nutrition. These dynamics are a direct result of apparel brands’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the long-term trend of low wages for garment workers in brands’ supply chains, which has left workers unprotected.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 20 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download als PDF-Datei

Herausgeber_in: Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Schlagwörter: Asien, COVID-19, Corona, Digitalisierung, Globalisierung, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Gender, Kambodscha, Visionen, Zukunft

Zielgruppe:  Erwachsene, Student_innen

Medien: Hintergrundinformation

Schlagwörter: Asien,n COVID-19, Corona, Digitalisierung, Globalisierung, globale Bekleidungsindustrie, Gender, Kambodscha, Visionen, Zukunft

Kurzbeschreibung:

This publication explores the implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) on the future of jobs, skills, and training in Southeast Asia, particularly for high growth industries in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. In Cambodia the garment industry is highlighted which should aim to depend less on low-cost production by moving toward production with higher value added, and that 4IR technologies could facilitate this transition.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 76 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download als PDF-Datei

Country Profile: Moldova

Herausgeber_in: Clean Clothes Campaign CCC, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung FES

Autor_in:            Lilia Nenescu

Themen:             Unternehmenskritik/Arbeitsbedingungen

                           Wertschöpfungskette/Globalisierung/Welthandel

Zielgruppe:        Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien:              Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen, Arbeitssicherheit, Fallbeispiel, Gender, Living Wages, Lohn, Mindestlohn, Osteuropa, textile Kette

Kurzbeschreibung:

This country profile sums up the state of the art of the garment industry in Moldova focusing on wages, economic role of the garment industry, brand practices, gender discrimination and workers’ rights violations.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2019

Umfang: 8 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download

Exploitation made in Europe

Herausgeber_innen: Clean Clothes Campaign CCC (European Production Focus Group)

Autor_in: Bettina Musiolek, Bojana Tamindžija, Stefan Aleksić, Anna Oksiutovych, Oksana Dutchak, Georgi Medarov, Ana Vragolović

Kategorien:

Themen:             Unternehmenskritik/Arbeitsbedingungen, Wertschöpfungskette/ Globalisierung/ Welthandel

Zielgruppe:        Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien:              Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, EU-Politik, Existenzlohn, Einkaufspraktiken, Frauen, Gender, Living wage, Lohn, Menschenrechte, Osteuropa, Produktionsländer, Studie, Unternehmensverantwortung

Kurzbeschreibung:

Germany is one of the world’s largest importers and exporters of garments. German fashion brands and retailers are the primary buyers of fashion items from Ukraine and Bulgaria, as well as the second most important buyers from Croatia and Serbia. For this study, workers from different suppliers of German brands and retailers in Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria were interviewed.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Umfang: 28 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Bezug: kostenfrei zum Download