Study on the Health Status of Adolescent Girls working in Textile and Spinning Mills Study on the health and psychological impact of the Sumangali system on adult women who have worked for several years under the Sumanglai system in spinning mills in India in forms of bonded labor. The study is based on interviews with 164 women. It deals with the physical and psychological (late) consequences of the working and living conditions to which the women were exposed. The study makes demands to improve the situation. Mehr Details
Sweatshop - Deadly Fashion Watch three Norwegian teenagers as they experience the realities of Cambodian garment workers’ lives. Read more …
Wage and Labour Conditions of Shoe and Garment Workers in Albania The country study of Albania gives an overview of the Albanian garment and shoe sector. Going further, the study provides facts of the wages paid for garment and shoe workers as well as it gives information about the working conditions in Albania. Interviews were conducted with 52 workers in 4 factories. The study closes with recommendations for action. Mehr Details
Trade Unions in Transformation - A Case Study of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria The study discusses the transformation of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) in an era of declining membership utilizing the power resources model. Union membership among factory workers had begun from around 60,000 in 2000 to less than 20,000 in 2016. The decline in membership means a fall in the structural power which had defined the union in terms of its vibrancy and strength in collective bargaining and visibility in the Nigeria labour movement since inception in 1978. The study shows that the union has tried to regain strength and vibrancy through different phases of challenge in the industry by building capacities to expand associational and societal powers through organizing of self-employed tailors and campaigns and advocacy for the revival of textile factories. Organizing strategies for self-employed tailors have promoted a transition from manifest to active membership and integration into the union. In particular, the union endeavors to consider the peculiar needs of the self-employed tailors for protection, access to credit, as well as capacity and skill development. To sustain and deepen this process, it is important that union education and training strategies must address both the soft and hard skills requirement of the self-employed tailors. Mehr Details
How unfair is that!? – Apprentices for fair workwear Brochure on labels for fair and ecological working conditions in textiles The 16-page brochure “How unfair is that?? – Fair workwear apprentices” provides background information on the poor working conditions in the global apparel industry and presents purchasing alternatives. It gives impulses on how apprentices can become active, e.g. by asking the management of their company to provide eco-fair workwear. A total of EUR 495.37 million in turnover was generated by manufacturers of workwear and workwear in Germany in 2013. The statistics portal statista forecasts (as of 2017) that sales will increase to 787,500 million euros in the next two years. A look at these figures shows: The industry is stable and growing steadily. Mehr Details
