Labour standards
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- Fatal fashion: Analysis of recent factory fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh: a call to protect and respect garment workers’ lives
- Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2013
- The garment industry in both Bangladesh and Pakistan is recognised for paying low wages, demanding and unsafe working conditions, and the repression of unions. Workers are not organised and therefore not in the position to monitor or ...
- Working conditions of Dalit garment workers
- M. Theuws (ed); P. Overeem (ed); M. Peepercamp (ed) / Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2012
- In Tamil Nadu young women workers continue to suffer exploitative working conditions while making garments for Western brands. Thousands of girls work under recruitment and employment schemes that amount to bonded labour. In this repo...
- Exploitation of labour rights in Abu Dhabi
- Human Rights Watch, 2009
- Saadiyat Island, in the Arabian Gulf, is a 27 square kilometer island consisting primarily of sand and mangrove swamp. Within a decade, if a $22 to 27 billion development plan goes according to schedule, the island will host six inter...
- Enhancing transparency in Hong Kong garment company supply chains
- CSR Asia, 2009
- This report examines transparency in Hong Kong garment sector supply chain operations to provide an update of their overall performance, and any key developments facing Hong Kong companies. The research covers five categori...
- Cheap goods: counting the cost of giant retailers' purchasing practices
- M. Hearson (ed) / Clean Clothes Campaign, 2009
- This report examines the business practices of giant retailers such as Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Lidl, and Aldi. These retailers have a global reach and huge market share in many countries, using their size to dominate suppliers and ...
- Sloan Center on Aging and Work, Boston College
- The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College promotes quality of employment as an imperative for the 21st century multi-generational workforce. The Centre's research agenda includes The Boston College National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development The Study of Health Insurance Costs and the Employment of Older Workers...
- Labour rights abuses in the pineapple supply chain
- International Labor Rights Forum, 2008
- Since the 1960’s, pineapple production has quadrupled and export has tripled worldwide. While profits for some have tremendously expanded under such development, this report demonstrates how pineapple workers, their families and...
- Enhancing understanding and implementation of the UNGC labour principles
- Global Compact Network, United Nations, 2008
- The labour principles of the UN Global Compact are among the most specific of the initiative’s ten principles. They are not the easiest to implement. Many companies face difficulties in knowing what is expected of them and what ...
- The state of the labour market in South Africa
- National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2008
- Since the mid-1990s, the South African labour market has been reshaped to conform to the demands of a modern developing economy, while at the same time responding to the needs of what government characterises as a “developmental...
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- Fatal fashion: Analysis of recent factory fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh: a call to protect and respect garment workers’ lives
- Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2013
- The garment industry in both Bangladesh and Pakistan is recognised for paying low wages, demanding and unsafe working conditions, and the repression of unions. Workers are not organised and therefore not in the position to monitor or ...
- Working conditions of Dalit garment workers
- M. Theuws (ed); P. Overeem (ed); M. Peepercamp (ed) / Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2012
- In Tamil Nadu young women workers continue to suffer exploitative working conditions while making garments for Western brands. Thousands of girls work under recruitment and employment schemes that amount to bonded labour. In this repo...
- Exploitation of labour rights in Abu Dhabi
- Human Rights Watch, 2009
- Saadiyat Island, in the Arabian Gulf, is a 27 square kilometer island consisting primarily of sand and mangrove swamp. Within a decade, if a $22 to 27 billion development plan goes according to schedule, the island will host six inter...
- Enhancing transparency in Hong Kong garment company supply chains
- CSR Asia, 2009
- This report examines transparency in Hong Kong garment sector supply chain operations to provide an update of their overall performance, and any key developments facing Hong Kong companies. The research covers five categori...
- Cheap goods: counting the cost of giant retailers' purchasing practices
- M. Hearson (ed) / Clean Clothes Campaign, 2009
- This report examines the business practices of giant retailers such as Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Lidl, and Aldi. These retailers have a global reach and huge market share in many countries, using their size to dominate suppliers and ...
- Labour rights abuses in the pineapple supply chain
- International Labor Rights Forum, 2008
- Since the 1960’s, pineapple production has quadrupled and export has tripled worldwide. While profits for some have tremendously expanded under such development, this report demonstrates how pineapple workers, their families and...
- Enhancing understanding and implementation of the UNGC labour principles
- Global Compact Network, United Nations, 2008
- The labour principles of the UN Global Compact are among the most specific of the initiative’s ten principles. They are not the easiest to implement. Many companies face difficulties in knowing what is expected of them and what ...
- The state of the labour market in South Africa
- National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2008
- Since the mid-1990s, the South African labour market has been reshaped to conform to the demands of a modern developing economy, while at the same time responding to the needs of what government characterises as a “developmental...
- How to combat forced labour?
- International Labour Organization, 2008
- Forced labour and human trafficking are important issues for employers and their organisations, including not only small enterprises on the margins of the formal economy, but also large multinational enterprises with complex supply ch...
- Sloan Center on Aging and Work, Boston College
- The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College promotes quality of employment as an imperative for the 21st century multi-generational workforce. The Centre's research agenda includes The Boston College National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development The Study of Health Insurance Costs and the Employment of Older Workers...
- International Labour Organisation - Regional Office for Arab States, Beirut (ILO, Beirut)
- The International Labour Organisation's Regional Office in Beirut
- SwedWatch (SwedWatch)
- Swedish NGO monitoring Swedish companies' practices in the South
- ISEAL Alliance
- Association of voluntary international standard-setting and conformity assessment organisations that focus on social and environmental issues.
