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Fact sheet: How to Make a Shoe Out of It - Working Conditions in the Chinese Shoe Industry

Low wages, involuntary overtime, lack of protection against health and safety risks – these grievances are widespread in the footwear value chain.
The fact sheet summarizes a study that examined working conditions in Chinese supplier companies that produce for European brand companies.
Based on a survey of workers in three shoe factories in Guangdong Province, China, conducted by SOUTHWIND partner Globalization Monitor at the end of 2015, an alarming picture of shoe production in China emerges, where state violence is often used to suppress strikes for better working conditions.

editorial: Grigentin-Krämer, Sandra; Mauz, Katharina; Based on the study of the same name

Scope: 4 pages
Reference: free of charge for download at South Wind Institute .
The underlying study.