H&M: The promise of living wages and the reality of poverty wages In November 2013, H&M publicly promised to create remuneration structures in all ‘gold’ and ‘platinum’ factories of its ‘strategic and preferred suppliers’ by 2018, enabling the payment of ‘fair livelihood wages’ for 850,000 employees. The five-year deadline for H&M to implement its commitment has now expired. Therefore, the Clean Clothes Campaign conducted research to check how much the workers earn in some of these subcontracting companies and how close this income comes to a living wage. The shocking result: None of the interviewed workers earns a living wage. Mehr Details
Company Profiles 2018 - Fourth Company Survey on Social Standards in the Workwear Industry As a procurer, you would like to know which workwear companies produce socially responsible? Would you like to inform your municipality about socially responsible purchasing of workwear? As a company, are you interested in credibly implementing social standards in the supply chain? The company survey promotes transparency in the industry and dialogue between public buyers and companies. The results of the survey were first published in spring 2013, the latest edition reflects the status of 2018. Mehr Details
The Industrial Revolution - Great Britain 1750 - 1850 The main film (22 min.) gives an overview of the causes, course and consequences of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. The seven modules (each 6-9 minutes) allow the deepening of individual teaching focuses: Factory system, child labour, textile technology, mechanical loom, steam engine, railway network expansion, first social reforms, etc. The school films were shot in historic locations in England and Scotland. Mehr Details
Leaflet: Good work fairbindet - Fair public procurement The leaflet informs interested parties about the concept of the city of Bonn on fair public procurement, in which the city is supported by FEMNET e.V. as part of a project. It provides information about the background and working conditions of global textile and clothing production and describes the motives for fair public procurement. Mehr Details
Rana Plaza as a Threat to the Fast Fashion Model? An Analysis of Institutional Responses to the Disaster in Germany Based on an analysis of the main institutional responses to the Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013, we find that the catastrophe produced institutional change in some areas, but has resultedfar failed to do so in others. We focus our analysis on Germany, which has significant garment import from Bangladesh. Specifically, we find that the majority of governance initiatives are production-oriented and not consumption-oriented. This means that they are mostly geared towards changing working conditions at supplier factories and not towards challenging the fast fashion business model and the related consumer behavior. By drawing on the ‘focusing events’ framework we outline the problem definition, policy templates, and actors behind the most important initiatives and are always able to offer explanations for this outcome. We conclude by outlining alternative consumption-oriented courses of action that could complement production-oriented initiatives. Mehr Details
