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  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 report freely about safety hazards.
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  Maid in India - young Dalit women continue to suffer exploitative conditions in India’s garment industry

  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.
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  Have Hong Kong garment companies improved their reporting on labour standards?

  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 categories: governance and risk management code of conduct stakeholder engagement
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  "The Island of Happiness": exploitation of migrant workers on Saadiyat Island, 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 international cultural institutions, a performing arts center, a campus of New York University, two golf courses, expensive private residences, a marina, and 29 hotels.
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  Cashing in: giant retailers, purchasing practices, and working conditions in the garment industry

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2009

  This report examines the business practices of giant retailers such as Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Lidl, and Aldi.
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  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.
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  The sour taste of pineapple: how an expanding export industry undermines workers and their communities

  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 communities, and the environment in the largest pineapple producing nations have not enjoyed the benefits of such growth.
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  The labour principles of the United Nations Global Compact; a guide for business

  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 more can be done to uphold these principles. This Guide describes each of the four Global Compact labour principles:
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  Bargaining for a living wage

  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 state”. This report focuses on South African labour market and the key issues that impact and affect collective bargaining.
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  “Combating forced labour: a handbook for employers and business”

  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 chains.

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