Publications and Resources
- Good bulbs, bad jobs: Workers and Conditions Behind Your New Compact Fluorescent
- Policy Matters Ohio 3/25/2008
- A major supplier of compact fluorescent light bulbs to General Electric Co. requires many to work a 64-hour week that exhausts workers and violates Chinese labor law.
- Development, Trade and Labor Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Global Policy Network 1/10/2008
- Is investment in the garment industry in Africa a helpful development tool? The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has, since 2000, provided free access to the U.
- The Next generation of CSR reporting: will better reporting result in better working conditions?
- Maquila Solidarity Network 12/19/2007
- In Codes Memo #22, MSN investigates whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting is measuring the right things, asking how stakeholders can assess whether a company's business practices bear any relation to its CSR principles and objectives.
- Sweatshop Hall of Shame 2008
- ILRF, Sweatshop Watch, and SweatFree Communities 12/1/2007
- For the past three years, a group of labor rights and human rights organizations in the United States have published the Shop with a Conscience Consumer Guide – a list of “sweatfree” options for the growing number of consumers who would like to purchase
clothing made under ethical conditions.
- Expectations in relation to Factory Closures and Mass-Dismissals
- Clean Clothes Campaign 9/1/2007
- The aim of this CCC E-Bulletin is to define the issues at stake to prevent closures. Secondly this bulletin looks into the issues at stake when garment factories close or significantly reduce their production and therefore drastically reduce the number of employees.
- Aldi's clothing bargains -discount buys discounting standards?
- SÜDWIND Institute 5/1/2007
- Working conditions in Aldi's suppliers in China and Indonesia:
Suggestions for consumer and trade union action, August 2007
The largest German and European discounter, Aldi, is selling its clothing bargains at a high price: in its study, the SÜDWIND Institute provides evidence of unprecedented violations of labour laws in Chinese and Indonesian factories which supply Aldi.
- Labor Monitoring In Cambodia's Garment Industry: Lession for Africa
- Ethical Globalization Initiative 5/1/2007
- Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative has published a paper on the advances and setbacks in labor monitoring in Cambodia. It is based on research undertaken in the field, and identifies lessons that can be applied to the garment industry in Africa and other regions.
- Decent Work: The Cambodian Garment Industry
- One World Action 11/30/2006
- This report is based on research undertaken with garment workers in 2006. It asks whether or not the development of the garment industry in Cambodia has led to the creation of decent work.
- Emergency Assistance, Redress and Prevention in the Hermosa Manufacturing Case
- Maquila Solidarity Network 11/30/2006
- Report for the Fair Labor Association.
- Offside! Labor Wear and Sports Wear Production in Asia
- Oxfam Brief 4/30/2006
