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Industry response to pandemic fuels forced labour risk
Published: June 22, 2021
Industrie du vêtement La détresse des travailleurs exacerbée par la pandémie
Published: June 22, 2021
Pandemic Has Increased Risk of Forced Labour in Garment Industry, Study Finds
Published: June 21, 2021
The Unequal Impacts of Covid-19 on Global Garment Supply Chains
Published: June 21, 2021
This report documents deteriorating living and working conditions for workers in garment supply chains, including a surge in vulnerability to forced labour, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
We find that garment workers’ labour and living conditions have severely worsened during the pandemic and workers are experiencing severe economic hardship and labour abuse. Across all four of our case study countries, workers have experienced sharp declines in earnings and working conditions, including increased vulnerability to key indicators of forced labour. These dynamics are evident for workers who have remained in the same jobs with no change in their employment status, as well for those who have had their contracts terminated amidst the pandemic and found new jobs; which have often involved worse working conditions and lower pay compared to their pre-pandemic employment. These patterns varied across case study country; individual level factors such as age, gender, race and ethnicity, union affiliation, migration and employment status; and commercial dynamics in supply chains.
Forced labour risks increase for garment workers
Published: June 21, 2021
Research spotlights forced labour concerns
Published: June 21, 2021
Risk of forced labour in clothing industry rises due to pandemic and industry response
Published: June 21, 2021
Garment Workers Face Mounting Forced Labor Risks
Published: June 21, 2021
1000+ Interviews Reveal Destructive Brand Practices Contributed to Unpaid Earnings, Threats and Abuse, Skyrocketing Debt, and a Dangerous Lack of PPE New research by the University of Sheffield and the Worker Rights Consortium finds that declining income and working conditions for workers in garment supply chains amid the Covid-19 pandemic has increased workers’ vulnerability to…
Hanging by a thread
Published: June 20, 2021
Weakening Legal Protections for Garment Workers in Asia
Published: May 27, 2021
May 27, 2021 Dear colleagues, Over the past year, the WRC has tracked a disturbing trend: as their populations faced the ravages of Covid, the governments of several garment-producing countries in Asia acted to strip away and undermine worker protections, a move often framed as a way to attract new investment. In Indonesia and India,…